Webinar
Getting started with grazing for soil and landscape health with Rod and Katrina Butler
Grazing for soil health is the focus of this free webinar with farmers Rod and Katrina Butler.
Rod and Katrina run a sheep trading enterprise at Gimlet Ridge, and they’ll share how they’ve built soil and landscape health there over the past 30 years.
What you’ll learn
Rod and Katrina will talk through the challenges they overcame, what they learned along the way and the benefits they’ve seen: higher stocking rates, lower costs and a healthier landscape.
Since changing their grazing management, they’ve watched grass cover increase, pastures stay green for longer, and trees and birds return to the property.
Part of the Grazing for Soil and Landscape Regeneration Practice Guide
This webinar is one of five events featuring graziers from Soils for Life’s recently launched Grazing for Soil and Landscape Regeneration Practice Guide.
We developed the guide with experienced graziers from around Australia and some of the country’s most respected grazing educators and training institutions. It distils the most common principles and practices graziers use to regenerate soil health and landscape function.
How to register
Registration is free. Contact Kim Deans at [email protected] with any questions.
Acknowledgements: Twynam Investments funded the Grazing for Soil and Landscape Regeneration Practice Guide. 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) guided its development. We also thank the case study farmers profiled in the guide for generously sharing their stories, knowledge and experience. Soils for Life remains solely responsible for all content, and the views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the funder or advisers.
Image: Amanda Rowland
When
2 September 2026
Where
Online
Contact
For questions or more information, please contact Soils for Life at (02) 6273 6647 or [email protected]
Free Registration
Register to receive the Zoom link for the webinar.
Lineup
Rod and Katrina Butler
Until recently, Rod and Katrina Butler operated a sheep trading and opportunity cropping enterprise, Gimlet Ridge in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Rod and Katrina began adopting Holistic Planned Grazing in 1997 after completing Holistic Management training with educator Bruce Ward, and started making decisions designed to keep ground cover on the land. Rod and Katrina continued working with Bruce, and his mentoring in financial planning and context development helped them to shift their mindset, connected them with like minded practitioners and deepened their understanding and practice of Holistic Management.
Over time, stocking rates increased, costs reduced and the landscape changed considerably. Since changing their grazing management, they have observed increasing grass cover, pastures that stay green for longer and trees and birds coming back into the landscape. The farm became easy to manage and low cost to run with stocking rates increasing. With all of these changes, Rod and Katrina feel that they had much more choice and control.
This webinar is supported by “The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal” and Hand Heart Pocket.
