GRAZING FIELD DAY
Regenerative Grazing Field Day
Join us for a day of on-farm learning and practical skills on how to implement grazing strategies to build soil and landscape health, the second of our field days with graziers featured in our new grazing practice guide.
Since arriving in 1985 to the damage left by cotton production, the Curtis family have transformed their farm into a thriving, profitable Dorper stud and sheep enterprise. They sell fat lambs into high-end butchers and hold multiple stud sales a year, from a farm that is seeing ever-increasing biodiversity and soil health. Their approach of grazing regeneratively, reducing their costly inputs, and sowing multispecies fodder crops underpins their success.
The Curtis family are a featured case study in Soils for Life’s recently launched Grazing for Soil and Landscape Regeneration Practice Guide. Developed with experienced graziers from around Australia, and some of Australia’s most respected grazing educators and training institutions, we’ve produced a resource that distils the most common principles and practices used by graziers to regenerate soil health and landscape function.
Join us for this field day – the second of five nationwide events hosted by the five graziers featured in the guide, hosted by the Curtis family with guest speaker and grazing management educator Dr Judi Earl.
On the day
The focus is on practical, paddock-based learning, farmer observations and decision-making tools that can be applied on farm.
- Introduction to the Grazing Practice Guide
- The Curtis family will talk about their grazing management practices
- Judi Earl will share practical grazing management principles, and how to apply them
- Practical skills session in the field
- Open discussion, networking, questions and peer-to-peer learning throughout the day
Catering and what to bring
Lunch will be provided. Please advise any dietary requirements when registering. Don’t forget to bring a water bottle and appropriate footwear and clothing for paddock conditions.
Contact
Phone service may be limited on site. For questions or more information, please contact Soils for Life at (02) 6273 6647 or [email protected]
When
15 July 2026
Where
Millmerran QLD
Tickets
Farmers: $30 for up to 3 attendees from the same farm business (offer for farm businesses only), $15 for subsequent registrants. $30 for industry attendees. Numbers are limited.
The Curtis family
The Curtis family run a Dorper stud and produce organically certified Dorper prime lambs and organically certified grain on their property Bellevue near Millmerran. They converted to certified organic farming in 2016 due to their desires to stop putting chemicals into the food system for animals or people and to create a beautiful and healthy environment for their family. The Curtis’ motto is: ‘Where we produce food should be the healthiest place to live, so we feel a farming environment should be a healthy place to bring up kids and family. We also believe in growing where we are planted, and to do the best with the soil you have got or the scenarios you have got.’ David has aimed to get outside of what he calls the ‘bulk commodity swell’ so they are not just another bulk producer. Customer relationships are important: ‘Everything we produce goes to a customer, whether it is a ram, our lambs to customers or butchers, and our grain.’
Instagram: @bellevuedorpers
Facebook: @bellevuedorpers
Web: bellevuedorpers.com.au
Dr Judi Earl
Judi gained a PhD in pasture ecology when she conducted the first studies describing the benefits to pasture composition from planned grazing. She has extensive experience in how grasslands and pastures respond to grazing and fertility management and is a widely respected speaker on these matters.
Establishing the AIMS consultancy in 1998 and a Holistic Management™ educator since 2002, Judi’s main area of interest is working with land managers to enhance the condition and productivity of their land through improved understanding of ecosystem function and more effective utilisation of available resources.
Judi showcases the capacity of grazing animals to regenerate land on her 454 hectare property, Glen Orton, in NSW.
Many thanks to Twynam Investments for supporting the production of this guide, to the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal and Hand Heart Pocket for supporting this event, to Judi Earl (Agricultural Information and Monitoring Services), Helen Lewis (Australian Holistic Management Cooperative), David McLean (RCS), Grahame Rees (KLR Marketing) and Brian Wehlburg (Inside Outside Management) for input and guidance, and to Ben Simpson, David and Ruth Read, David Curtis, Nick Austin and Rod and Katrina Butler for generously sharing their stories, knowledge, experience and data.
