From Fire to Flourishing: Regenerative Grazing That Supercharges Profits

Farm Learning with Tim Thompson | 7 June 2025 | Back to All Videos
What if you could double your livestock gains, restore native grasslands, and ditch chemical fertilizers—just by changing how you grow crops?

Join Tim Thompson near Gulgong, NSW, for an in-depth look at Colin Seis’s revolutionary pasture cropping system. A fourth-generation farmer who overcame devastation after a bushfire, Colin turned his crisis into a world-renowned model for regenerative agriculture.
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🌱 In this episode:
✔ How to regenerate degraded soil without inputs
✔ Why reducing synthetic fertilizer boosts productivity
✔ How native grass seeds can become a profitable enterprise
✔ The surprising link between oats and native seed germination
✔ Doubling sheep weight gains with multi-species crops
✔ Why regenerative cropping outperforms conventional farming

🎙 Featuring: Colin Seis – pioneer of pasture cropping
📍 Location: Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia

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🔸 Charles Massy on Regenerative Agriculture

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00:00 Meet Colin Seis – Regenerative Farming Pioneer
01:10 Diverse Income Streams on a Family Farm
02:35 Lessons from the Soil Damage of the Past
04:00 Rebuilding After the Devastating 1979 Bushfire
06:20 Breaking Away from High-Input Advice
09:00 The Financial Power of Cutting Fertilizers
12:00 Soil Biology: The Hidden Driver of Farm Success
14:00 Inventing Pasture Cropping Over a Homebrew
16:00 Why Cropping Into Dormant Grass Works
18:00 Native Grasses Germinating from Crop Rows
20:00 Multispecies Crops: Double the Lamb Weight Gain
22:00 Healthier Sheep with Natural Roughage
23:30 Soil Carbon & Nutrient Boosts from Regenerative Practices
25:00 Why Croppers Need to Look at Pasture Cropping
27:00 Final Reflections & Puppy Pandemonium