Five training programs for improving grazing land management
24 May 2023
Upgrade your grazing land management skills to drive long-term productivity with these EDGEnetwork workshops and PGS programs from MLA.
EDGEnetwork (EDGE) provides producers with tailored, comprehensive, and practical learning opportunities in business management, breeding, grazing land management and nutrition through workshops across Australia.
The takeaways will give producers additional knowledge and skills to enhance business and livestock management – and positively influence profitability, sustainability, and productivity.
Profitable Grazing Systems (PGS) takes small groups of like-minded producers who want to improve their whole-farm performance and matches them with a deliverer who builds their knowledge, skills, and experience through hands-on training.
Below are the top five workshops and packages within these two training programs to boost grazing land management skills.
1. Grazing fundamentals EDGE
Grazing fundamentals EDGE is a one-day workshop that gives northern producers a broad understanding of the environment in which they operate.
The training program highlights the core principles behind successful maintenance of grazing land condition and long-term productivity.
2. Grazing land management EDGE
Grazing land management EDGE is a three-day workshop helping northern producers to thoroughly understand their grazing environment.
The program aims to show producers how to strategically manage their grazing business to optimise land condition and productivity in the long term.
Producers will be able to put their focus on which area is most important to them in their grazing business, including:
- animal production
- land condition
- grazing pressure
- diet quality
- pasture grown
- pasture eaten.
3. PGS PayDirt
The PGS PayDirt package value-adds to soil testing results and helps producers determine how to get the most bang for their fertiliser buck.
There is also a northern adaption of the program known as PayDirt North, tailored to helping producers in the north to overcome impacts and limitations of their soils.
4. PGS Satellite-assisted forage budgeting
The PGS Satellite-assisted forage budgeting package helps upskill producers in utilising satellite imagery to develop grazing budgets on a large scale.
5. PGS Dry time ready
The PGS Dry time ready training package will leave producers with a fully developed drought management strategy focused on production and resource allocation.
Register interest
Discover more and submit your expression of interest at mla.com.au/edgenetwork for EDGEnetwork workshops, and mla.com.au/pgs for PGS programs.
