Choose your own adventure at Wilmot Field Day 2026

At Wilmot Field Day 2026, we are giving attendees a chance to delve deeper into discussion and demonstrations with our diverse line up of speakers.

In a reimagined format, WFD 2026 will include concurrent sessions each afternoon, giving attendees the opportunity to choose their own adventure. Dig deep into soil pits, look at cutting edge ag tech, or wander through the Wilmot paddocks.

When you book your tickets, you’ll be prompted to select the sessions that spark your interest – two on Day 1, and one on Day 2. Read more below to help you make your choices:

Day 1. Corporate-led Regenerative Agriculture: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? (panel discussion)

Food and beverage companies are leaning on primary producers to hit their ambitious and sometimes aspirational sustainability targets. But their limited budgets, along with a regulatory and reporting quagmire, can draw skepticism from farmers. This session will explore how agri-food companies and banks are influencing the on-farm practices of the Australian producers supplying them. It will showcase the latest findings of BloombergNEF’s ongoing research series examining the opportunities and challenges of scaling corporate regenerative agriculture programs, before hearing from producers and processors feeling the corporate pressure to act.

Day 1. The Wilmot Paddock Experience with Allen Williams (paddock walk)

In keeping with WFD tradition, The Wilmot Experience takes attendees into the paddocks to see regenerative grazing practices in action. As you walk through the pastures, hear from Wilmot’s farm management team, who will be joined by keynote speaker, Allen Williams.

Together they will share observations and facilitate discussion on the indicators that producers can use to help inform their landscape and livestock management, such as pasture composition, groundcover, soil health, and grazing behaviours. Walk away with a solid understanding of the indicators and ideas you can use in your own operation to apply Allen’s regenerative principles.

Day 1. Environmental Markets – Carbon + Biodiversity (panel discussion)

Over the last few years, an urgent need to address ecosystem decline and biodiversity loss has stirred global commitments to nature repair, with Australia introducing a world-leading Nature Repair Market to help accelerate action through the creation and trading of “biodiversity credits”. Like the carbon market, the Nature Repair Market facilitates opportunities for landholders to be rewarded for activities that restore and enhance natural ecosystems.

So, what does this mean for your business? Join Chair of GreenCollar, Brendan Foran, for a candid conversation with representatives from the NRM, finance, agtech and environmental market sectors to understand the nuts and bolts of the Nature Repair Market, hear what we can expect from the initiative in the future, and how the market’s earliest on-farm projects have been unfolding.

Day 1 & Day 2. Soil Lab (soil pit and workshop)

Jump into a soil pit with Dr Susan Orgill, Chief Scientist at Impact Ag Australia, and learn to unearth layers of information about your soils through observation. What can roots, pores, particles, textures, colours, moisture, microbes and other indicators tell you? Discuss the factors that could be limiting your pasture or crop production, and discover practical strategies you could put in place to remediate your soil constraints.

Day 1 & Day 2. Grazing meets Tech (paddock talk)

This is your chance to hear firsthand from a man who knows nearly every inch of the paddocks, trajectory, milestones, trials and tribulations here at Wilmot, having played a part in the farm’s journey from conventional set-stocking to what it is today. A leader in his field and Atlas Ag’s Chief Grazing Officer, Bart Davidson will explore ways we can better manage grazing for optimal productivity and sustainability by leveraging the data and tools at our fingertips.

Day 2. The Wilmot Paddock Experience with Jon Lundgren (paddock walk)

In keeping with WFD tradition, The Wilmot Experience takes attendees into the paddocks to see regenerative practices in action. As you walk around the property, hear from Wilmot’s farm management team, who will be joined by keynote speaker, Jon Lundgren.

Learn from Jon about the 1,000 Farms Initiative, which is using data from a network of farms in the US to provide producers with better tools and indicators to assess the health of their landscape. Jon, and the Wilmot team, will share these learnings as you walk across the paddocks, sharing their experience on improving natural capital and farm profitability through agronomic, ecological and economic factors.

Day 2. A Season on Robinson Farms

Adopting cropping practices that work with ecosystem processes to build soil health, biodiversity and resilience often requires farmers to develop new skills and knowledge and make decisions that consider a more complex set of variables. In this session, Soils for Life’s Courtney Young and SA crop grower Tom Robinson will break down the on-ground reality of putting regenerative cropping practices into action. They will walk through, step-by-step across a growing season, how Tom collects soil and plant health data to make decisions that support his soil and crops, landscape health and farm profitability. The session will explore how adoption is a process that relies on ongoing support and practical on-farm monitoring and data collection.