Farmers helping Farmers
by Farmers helping Farmers Australia
ARIANE LOTTI - An Italian regenerative story
About this podcast
Since 2002, the Australian national network of ‘farmers helping farmers’ has been creating a collaborative space for learning and growth, driving positive change in agriculture through shared knowledge and experience. Practical, down-to-earth, open and curious. We connect large scale broadacre cropping and mixed farmers . We share, collaborate and tell it how it is.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 41 episodes
- ARIANE LOTTI - An Italian regenerative story · 1 h 2 min · Episode 40This Farmers helping Farmers episode is coming to you from a regenerative rice farm in Southern Tuscany, Italy. Picture yourself there by listening out for the town bells, the…
- Farmers helping Farmers - turning over a new leaf · 1 h 22 min · Episode 40Guest host Joel Williams talks to Michael Gooden and Dan Fox about the evolution of this grassroots farming group over the past 24 years, and the announcement of its new name…
- CAROL & BRIAN FITZPATRICK - making regenerative tools work for broadacre cropping in the Australian Mallee · 53 min · Episode 39In this episode, Michael Gooden catches up with board member Carol Fitzpatrick and her husband Brian to delve deeper into their on-farm brewing set-up which is providing…
- CALLUM LAWSON - Recovering from fire on farmland, The Longwood Fire Victoria · 39 min · Episode 38"I didn't get to Dad's until 12:30am Friday. I’ll never forget coming over the hill I’ve been coming over my whole life to home and seeing the area glowing. The whole horizon…
- ENCORE: GRANT SIMS - making regenerative ag work in Australia at a large scale · 35 min · Episode 37We are re-releasing our very first Farmers Helping Farmers podcast episode with former VicNoTill president and sixth generation Lockington farmer Grant Sims. This…
- Bonus episode - PADDOCK CHAT - How VicNoTill farmers are tackling global challenges · 27 min · Episode 36Farmers Helping Farmers, The Podcast is dropping into your ears with a paddock chat between VicNoTill president Michael Gooden and board member James Manning around how they're…
- ENCORE: TIM PARTON: Farmers Are Heroes, Nobody Else Can Do What We Do · 42 min · Episode 35April 2026: Life is full of challenges, especially in farming, and the global situation can be a heavy weight. It feels like the perfect time to re-release this encore…
- GUY WEBB - How a humble farmer from Forbes started a global movement of carbon capturing superheroes · 1 h 10 min · Episode 34In 2017, a Sydney TedX crowd went wild when farmer turned agronomist Guy Webb stood on stage to pitch his idea for using fungus to capture carbon in the atmosphere and plant it…
- ENCORE: GRAEME SAIT - On Why Nutrition Rules · 36 min · Episode 33VicNoTill is proud to re-release what was our second episode of Farmers Helping Farmers The Podcast for those who may have missed it! Dan Fox sat down with Graeme Sait during…
- BRENDAN PATTISON - Back to the Future, soil health pioneer's step by step approach towards better soils in broadacre cropping system · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 32VicNoTill president Michael Gooden describes stepping intothe paddocks of broadacre cropping farmer Brendan 'Patto' Pattison at Marrar NSW, as like stepping 10-15 years into the…
- ENCORE TOM BRIGGS - Lessons about context and nutrition when shifting to a regenerative farming system · 50 min · Episode 31Back in 2023, third generation Victorian farmer Tom Briggs candidly shared the things that went right, and wrong, when he returned home to his family farm with a head full of new…
- DON PIPER - The importance of farming from the ground down. · 49 min · Episode 30In this podcast episode, Angus Ingram catches up with Don Piper. Don is a mixed farmer from Violet Town in Victoria who is typical of farmers who want to create a more resilient…
- ENCORE: WILL BIGNELL - The Tassie farmer who's packed four lifetimes into one · 49 min · Episode 29In this ENCORE episode you'll get an insight into what you can expect at the VicNoTill annual conference on September 2 and 3 at Moama, NSW when you meet our dinner guest speaker…
- ANDREW DOECKE - Omnia, 'all things' that maximise and sustain soil productivity · 1 h 5 min · Episode 28NSW broadacre cropping farmer Dan Fox has a fascination for understanding the intricacies of how plants and soils function, and his conversation with Omnia research and…
- JOHN KEMPF - Australian launch of new AI tool and a whole lot more · 1 h 20 min · Episode 27“If you have a decline in yield as a result of a transition to regenerative ag, it is not a result of regenerative ag, it is the result of poor agronomic management. Accepting a…
- Encore: CALLUM LAWSON. Common sense farming - a profitable regenerative grazing system · 47 min · Episode 26Applications are open for the Integrity Soils CREATE program with Nicole Masters which is being run in Australia for the first time. The on-farm intensive for CREATE Australia…
- NICOLE MASTERS - Creating a lasting legacy for soil health · 1 h 6 min · Episode 25Nicole, a global agro-ecologist, educator and systems thinker, has been working with VicNoTill to share knowledge about regenerative ag for more than a decade. In this episode…
- WILL BIGNELL - The Tassie farmer who's packed four lifetimes into one · 49 min · Episode 24Agricultural investment manager and VicNoTill board member Angus Ingram steps in as guest host for this fast-paced, action-packed interview with Tasmanian farmer and ag scientist…
- STACEY CURCIO - We are what we eat eats, food starts in the soil · 59 min · Episode 23When farmers speak about diversity being one of the hallmarks of a resilient farming system, Stacey Curcio asks them to consider the diversity within their diets and the way they…
- KEIRAN KNIGHT - stepping outside the lines and away from chemical-based farming · 31 min · Episode 22Fifth generation broadacre farmer and agronomist Keiran Knight grew up on an irrigation, cotton, sheep, cattle and cereal farm between Walgett and Narrabri in NSW. She married…







