Brian Wehlburg – Inside Outside Management

Brian’s passion is combining environmental improvement and grazing management. He has managed farming businesses in Zimbabwe and Australia. As a director of training and consultancy company, Inside Outside Management, Brian has worked with diverse groups including environmental organizations, family businesses, and sole operators both in Australia and New Zealand, delivering Holistic Management courses and grazing management workshops. With extensive experience working in a team with people from different cultures and backgrounds, combined with his passion for Holistic Management, Brian creates an atmosphere of trust within a group, enabling the diverse participants to actively contribute towards positive outcomes. Brian is a board member of Holistic Management International.

Heidi Merika

Heidi is an author, experienced naturopath and medical herbalist with a passion for wild medicinal and nutritional plants.

She has lectured in nutrition and herbal medicine at  Endeavour College of Natural Health (Brisbane) where she was also a clinical supervisor, and in nutrition at  University of the Sunshine Coast and RMIT University (VIC)

She is a regular speaker at conferences, seminars and community events.

Heidi regularly runs popular workshops on herbal medicine and foraging for wild plants.

She is the author of Wildcraft: The science and spirit of wild plants for food and medicine (2019) and From the Wild: An essential companion to identifying, cooking and enjoying common wild plants for health and healing.(2024)

She lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

Gerald Wyatt – Classic Livestock Management Services

Have you ever heard something that challenges everything you thought you knew on a subject?  Gerald Wyatt trains producers to look differently at their animals.

At Agvention you’ll get some lifechanging information as Gerald walks you through the Classic Livestock evaluation system.  Visual traits (not the ones you are thinking of!) are used to assess your livestock’s eating quality, their fertility and milking ability (amongst other things).  Knowledge of these traits can help you make selection decisions on your bulls and better cull poor performing cows no matter what breed they are.

Vertically integrated beef producers will be able to supply customers with higher quality beef, small operators (and large) will know which animals are worth holding on to and which aren’t.  20% of your herd are superior eating quality beef, 20% are just plain tough, and the rest are merely ok. Learn how to differentiate between them.

Mick Alexander – CQ Organics

Mick Alexander is a passionate believer that farmers are the solution to climate change and cows are the tool to sequestering carbon back into the soil in a natural cycle. Running a Certified Organic, truly regenerative beef cattle property in central Queensland along with his wife and sons, Mick is proud to produce a sustainable, healthy product that consumers can feel good about enjoying.

Mick’s insights into how to solve the challenges our industry currently faces and his vision for the future will be shared at Agvention 2024.

Mick is a Natural Capital manager that has worked in resource management since 1993. Mick has a focus is on assisting people manage change in rural communities and to take action towards a happier healthier future. Mick is a key trainer of sustainable grazing systems, understanding carbon, the Technology of Growing Grass (TOGG) workshop, soil nutrition and microbiology and computerised property planning.

Viki Dioszegi

Viki’s passion is to integrate modern veterinary science with traditional natural medicine. Viki graduated in Europe and worked as a holistic vet for more than 20 years. Her veterinary clinic serviced 300 km radius area in Far North Queensland. The elements of tropics and remote areas forced her to align more with nature and utilize local, available sources for the healing of plants and animals. Inspired by chemical free farming and creating natural solutions, Viki runs her self-sufficient, 65-acre farm with market garden, Heritage turkeys and horses.

Remedies made by Viki were used on Kandanga Farm during an extreme tick outbreak with great success. Farmer Tim and Viki will discuss the Kandanga Farm Case study to demonstrate the power and usefulness of natural remedies within a holistic approach to animal health.

Ruby Earsman ~ Terra Firma Fertilisers

The Earsman Family, originally of Gympie are the founders of Terra Firma Fertilisers with Ruby being the second generation driving the businesses grass roots fertilisers  plus exploration into complimentary markets. Ruby is a qualified agronomist and will be explaining how to practically read a soil test. What’s important and how that translates to developing a nutrition program.

Hamish Andrews – Forage Farms & Tarwyn Park Training

Hamish is from regenerative ag royalty. Grandson of Natural Sequence Farming Methodology founder Peter Andrews and son of Tarwyn Park Training Founder Stuart Andrews. Hamish practices regenerative farming daily on the family run farm Forage Farms at Kybong and is an educator through Tarwyn Park Training. At the forefront of the next generation of farmers taking the reins in Australian Agriculture Hamish is a driving force for positive environmental and agricultural outcomes.