Unblock your planning with this specialised workshop, designed to help you set clear business goals and map the steps to reach them. You’ll leave with practical tools, fresh insights into the cattle market and smarter herd management and infrastructure strategies.
What you’ll learn
How to think strategically about your business and set clear goals.
How to use MyFORAGE, a free online mapping tool to plan and manage your property and grazing
How to understand the cattle market
About herd management strategies and infrastructure planning
What to bring
Please bring a hat, water bottle and chair. Morning tea and lunch will be provided.
Beck Burgess
Beck Burgess Consulting
Founder of Beck Burgess Consulting
Beck Burgess is an agricultural consultant, facilitator, and event manager based in Langhorne Creek, SA. With nearly 20 years’ experience, she specialises in agricultural extension, strategic facilitation, and event coordination across sectors like dairy, grains, viticulture, agri-finance, and agtech.
Through Beck Burgess Consulting, she provides services in farmer group facilitation, business planning, farm business coaching and agricultural event delivery.
Beck holds a B.Sc in Agriculture (Animal Production) and is co-founder of Little Pete Brewing, a microbrewery that showcases her entrepreneurial spirit and regional roots.
Andrew Lewis
Low Stress Stockhandling
Trainer at Low Stress Stockhandling
Andrew Lewis grew up on Queensland’s Darling Downs, where his grandfather sparked his life-long passion for livestock and the rural industry.
With over 20 years’ experience managing livestock enterprises across Queensland, he specialises in holistic land management and low-stress stock handling.
Andrew and his wife Dannielle spent five years working with Jim and Terry Lindsay in Hughenden, refining his grazing and stock handling skills and developing a focus on continual self-improvement – leading to eight more years in training and extension supporting ag businesses in rural education.
Grant Stone
Department of the Environment
Tourism, Science and Innovation, Principal Extension Scientist
Grant Stone is Principal Extension Scientist with the Land Monitoring and Modelling group at DETSI, based at the EcoSciences Precinct in Brisbane.
With over 45 years in agriculture and rural industries, Grant began as a livestock and property agent before earning an Agricultural Science degree from University of Queensland
For the past 27 years, he’s worked as a rangelands scientist studying climate and grazing impacts across northern Australia, and for the last decade, he’s led the promotion and delivery of the Long Paddock website’s land management tools for graziers and advisors.
