LOCAL Land Services has reintroduced the Property Planning Program under LLS officer Bruce Gardiner.

A group of producers met at the Delungra Pub last Friday morning for an initial meeting and the property planning sessions being on June 19.

“Farm planning has been an evolutionary process over quite a long period of time now,” Bruce said.

“I spend a lot of time trying to make science more relevant to farmers by showing them how the science that we know impacts on the business that they’re trying to run.

“Things like how energy moves through systems and how they make all of their money on how well they capture energy. Your system has a strictly limited capacity to absorb energy, and how you can most efficiently you do that determines how profitable a farm business is going to be; how productive it’s going to be.” 

Bruce said he offers farmers finite thresholds and essential elements to consider in every farm management program.

Will Munsie and his family run a 2000-head cattle operation north of Warialda. It was his time attending the group and said we was coming out of 

“Oh, just to learn more. We’ve recently gone from a breeding operation to trading cattle and we’re just trying to build up our infrastructure to suit the trading. We’re running big numbers of cattle with smaller mobs.

Graeme Tonkin has a wool operation with a few fat lambs at Gragin. He came to the meeting in the past and the incentive is to gain more knowledge and improve his practices to increase productivity.

“Trying to improve things, basically. Trying to make a little more money,” he said.

Leonie Buchan runs cattle on her property east of Delungra and came along for a second dose of knowledge.

“I did a property planning course with Bruce about three years ago and I want to do it again, just to refresh my memory and take in all the stuff I’d missed the first time around,” she said.

Kevin Graham has been part of the group before. A Brahman breeder with his wife Yvonne since the 1960s, they moved to a property west of Delungra about 11 years ago from the coast. 

“We’ve been involved with it all the way through. And I’m always interested in what other people are doing and what we can do,” Kevin said. 

“I’ve always been told that you can learn something every day, no matter how old you are and that’s why I always come along and talk to people. You learn a lot talking to people after and while it’s on.”

The first official LLS Farm Planning meeting is Thursday, June 19 from 9am to 3pm at the Delungra Pub. The program is free. For more information, phone Bruce Gardiner on 0458 493 790 or his LLS office on 6772 2366.