We believe climate positive agriculture transforms farming systems to be more resilient against the impacts of extreme weather, shifting rainfall patterns, and increased pest and disease pressure while protecting our natural resources. Farmers need tools and resources based on the latest science and technology to feed and fuel the world while minimizing environmental impacts. Through sustainable innovation, a focus on biodiversity and regenerative agriculture, and measurable efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we can make strides toward a more climate positive, sustainable agriculture industry for generations to come.
Fostering Climate Positive Agriculture
Farmers are leading the way in Sustainable Agriculture
Farmers around the globe are leading the way in scaling sustainable practices that can help to improve the land and environment. We’re here to highlight early adopters, and to help share those practices with others around the globe. Together, we can make climate positive agriculture productive, profitable, environmentally beneficial, and equitable.
David Statham - Moree, NSW
GLOBAL CLIMATE POSITIVE LEADER 2022
Nominated by Nutrien Ag Supplies
David Statham produces cotton, along with cereal crops, pulse crops and livestock forage in Moree, New South Wales, Australia. Located next to the World Heritage site Gwydir Wetlands, he has developed the first climate positive traceable irrigated and dryland cotton, and expanded the practices to smallholder farmers in India, showcasing how sustainable agriculture and environmental conservation can co-exist.
James Venning - Bute, SA
REGIONAL CLIMATE POSITIVE LEADER 2022
Nominated by Northern Sustainable Soils
Barunga Grains, run by James Venning, dryland crop 4,700ha of wheat, barley, lentils and canola over varying soil type. Using techniques such as no till, stubble retention, carbon sampling and electronic zoning of the paddock, paying close attention to the various soil types in each zone has had a large positive impact on their bottom line.
Ryan Arnold - Loxton, SA
CLIMATE POSITIVE NOMINEE 2022
Nominated by E.E. Muir & Sons
A passion to look after their land drives the Arnold family, of Pyap Produce, at Loxton, South Australia, to continually improve the way they farm. Ryan Arnold, who farms 100 hectares of citrus with his brothers, near the South Australian / Victorian border, said they were determined to produce quality fruit while looking after the environment. “We're generational farmers in our family,” he said. “My brothers and I have all tried to go away and study and bring information back to the business.”
Jake Ryan - Manjimup, WA
GLOBAL CLIMATE POSITIVE LEADER 2021
Nominated by AUSVEG
Jake Ryan is a mixed cropping/livestock producer in Manjimup, Western Australia, using holistic grazing, minimal tillage, cover cropping, and mineral nutrition to produce a wide variety of winter vegetables, cereal and oilseed commodity crops, ewes for wool and lamb production, first cross Angus Friesian heifers, and pasture-raised laying hens. He has implemented a strip-tilling and cover crop process for his vegetable crops, ensuring there is a living root feeding carbon into the soil and stimulating soil microbes for healthy. Acres are rotated with one year of vegetable production, followed by four years of pasture production for livestock and soil regeneration. Cover crops are planted on the entire operation to improve soil, then are grazed or cut for silage.
Shane & Sharni Radford - Moriarty, TAS
REGIONAL CLIMATE POSITIVE LEADER 2021
Nominated by AUSVEG
Shane and Sharni Radford have a passion to keep the environment at the forefront and look after the land at their mixed enterprise property at Moriarty, in northern Tasmania. The enterprise comprises of fat lambs, beef cattle and a variety of crops including carrots,potatoes, onions, wheat, green beans and broccoli. Looking after the natural environment is also a key part and includes a 4-hectare patch of bush to encourage native fauna and flora.
Michael Gooden - Wagga Wagga, NSW
REGIONAL CLIMATE POSITIVE LEADER 2021
Nominated by Nutrien Ag Solutions
A decision to consider ecological, as well as economic, outcomes is a major driver for Michael Gooden, who runs the 380-hectare property of “Willowlee” located 70 kilometres west of Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales. Holistic Management has led to initiatives such as time-controlled cell grazing which has given the farm more control over the grass feed as well as improved the landscape.
Michael Nichols - Sisters Creek, Tasmania
CLIMATE POSITIVE NOMINEE 2021 & 2022
Nominated by Nutrien Ag Solutions
The Redbank Farm at Sisters Creek, Tasmania is a diverse family farm with beef cattle and mixed cropping which includes onions, poppies, potatoes, wheat, barley, canola, mustard and pyrethrum. They also run a poultry farm and a grain pool business. With a goal to be sustainable and profitable Michael Nichols work includes cover cropping, variable rate application, soil maps, monitored nutritional inputs and also trying to preserve local biodiversity.