Workshop Wrap: Regenerating Land With Grazing Livestock with Dr Judi Earl- 2026 Update

Grazing livestock are the most powerful tool we have available to regenerate land. The way grazing animals are moved across the landscape influences soil health, pasture species diversity, plant growth and production. Different species graze differently and livestock have different nutritional requirements throughout the year. Planned grazing is an approach that allows you to build soil health optimise pasture health and production while accounting for these changing needs of livestock.

This post is a presentation summary of a recent workshop held by the Lower Blackwood LCDC in which presenter and Holistic Grazing expert Dr Judi Earl describes the range of approaches to grazing management and the impact of the different strategies on pasture dynamics, growth and production. This post has replaced a 2023 post on the same topic.

Topics covered include:

• The range of grazing management strategies explained
• Managing animals in tune with seasonal growth cycles
• The effect of the number of paddocks on rest and recovery of plants
• Matching stocking rate to carrying capacity – feed budgeting
• Methods to measure available feed and pasture growth
• The importance of residual herbage mass and pasture utilisation

For more on this topic go to our content hub: Managing Grazing

This event formed part of the Lower Blackwood LCDC’s Regenerative Agriculture in Practice Program (RAPP) 2026. RAPP is supported through funding from the Shire of Augusta Margaret River’s Environmental Management Fund. This event also forms part of a collaborative project with RegenWA called ‘Make Your Hectare Count’, which is supported by funding from the Western Australian Government’s State NRM Program. Additional support has been provided through RegenWA’s Accelerating Regenerative Agriculture Adoption Project, and the WA Landcare Network, which is funded by State NRM, Lotterywest and the National Landcare Network.