Cultivating future leaders From March to May 2025, 15 emerging leaders from across the region participated in the 7-session intensive Gippsland Agriculture Leaders Program. The program focused on building resilience, adaptive capacity, and a strong community of practice within Gippsland’s agricultural sector. Facilitated by Chris Mirams, farm management consultant; Jenny [...]
Good decisions are central to drought preparedness. During dry seasons, farmers are often making complex choices under pressure, including decisions about feed, water, stocking rates, sowing, business risk and family wellbeing. Through the Barwon and Great South Coast Regional Drought Resilience Plans, Southern Farming Systems worked with Cam Nicholson from [...]
Cropping farmers are no strangers to uncertainty. Every year they face climatic and market challenges while running complex businesses across some of Australia's most productive agricultural land. Now the Wimmera Southern Mallee is facing a different kind of uncertainty, as renewable energy companies identify its landscape as suitable for large-scale [...]
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority delivered 4 Occasional Counsellor workshops across the Goulburn region as part of the Regional Drought Resilience Planning program. As the name suggests, the workshops were designed to strengthen the skills of natural resource management practitioners who are not employed in counselling roles, but who often [...]
In early 2025 Harrow and District was dry, paddocks were bare and the community were facing another season in one of their worst droughts in decades. Despite these challenges a dozen locals signed up for a new We’re Better Together Partnership aimed at bringing people together to build resilience and [...]
In February 2025, the Gippsland Drought Resilience Plan took a bold step forward with the launch of the Digging Deeper – Ag Chats with Al podcast at the Gippsland Red Meat Conference. Designed by farmers for farmers, this initiative has become a cornerstone of the region’s agricultural communications strategy, offering timely and [...]
Memories of the Millennium Drought’s empty rivers and dusty parks were the catalyst for the 'Midday at the Oasis' drought resilience project. From 1999 to 2009, the Wimmera Mallee sweated through successive dry years as crops failed, livestock were sold off and water supplies dipped as low as 3 per [...]
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (GB CMA) recently brought the powerful Australian drama Just a Farmer to communities across Victoria’s Goulburn region, turning community halls and cinemas into vital spaces for connection and peer support. Delivered as part of Victoria’s RDRP Implementation Grants program, the roadshow screenings were designed not [...]
As climate variability and drought risks intensify, Gippsland farmers are stepping up to lead the charge toward resilience. In Autumn 2025, 20 producers representing the wool, beef, dairy, sheep, and poultry sectors embarked on the Gippsland Farm Study Tour - a 5-day immersive experience through northern New South Wales. This [...]
The first part of the Regional Drought Resilience Planning (RDRP) program was building plans – Regional Drought Resilience Plans. The Plans articulate the themes and actions of each region to build social, economic and environmental resilience to drought. Plans were built by each region for that region, to ensure they represented local priorities, experiences and perspectives. Agriculture Victoria, through our excellent Regional Leaders, facilitated a collaborative approach through Regional Reference [...]
