If rising fuel and fertiliser costs are keeping you up at night, this recorded webinar is for you. Global disruption has pushed diesel and nitrogen prices sharply higher while supply tightens, and the Groundshift team — co-founders Chanelle O'Sullivan, Conan Moynihan and Sam Lang, alongside the Climatalist crew — uses this session to move past the heaviness of the headlines and focus squarely on what farmers can actually do about it.

Chanelle opens by setting the scene: fuel and fertiliser supply chains are more fragile than most of us realised, and for the season ahead at least, things won't be business as usual. The opportunity, she argues, is to be proactive now — making considered decisions before your hand is forced. From there, Conan and Sam walk through three practical focus areas you can take away and apply to your own system.

The first is stocking rate as a strategic tool. Conan reframes it not as a number to maximise but as a lever — aligning animal numbers to what your farm can genuinely grow and sustain, lowering your cost of production, growing more feed at home, and building nutrient efficiency within the farm gate. The payoff is lower fertiliser dependence, healthier soil biology, and far more flexibility heading into uncertain seasons.

The second is grazing management — the tool Conan describes as where strategy plays out every single day. The session covers pushing feed in front of yourself for flexibility, using deferred grazing as low-cost standing hay (and a way to save on diesel and contractor costs), and the crucial distinction between rest and full recovery, using indicator species like the third leaf in ryegrass.

The third, led by Sam, is supporting your natural nitrogen cycle. With synthetic nitrogen expensive and potentially restricted, the focus shifts to your underground workforce — the soil microbes that govern nitrogen inputs. Sam covers feeding soil biology, addressing the mineral deficiencies that quietly limit nitrogen use, and improving the efficiency of the nitrogen you do apply through foliar applications and carbon buffers.

The most compelling part comes from two farmers who lived it. Brooke Lie, a sixth-generation Taranaki dairy farmer, shares how dropping urea cold turkey after a brutal $3 payout season eventually broke her farm's production record, transformed animal health, and brought a wall of debt close to being paid off. Mark Coupmans, farming steep South Island hill country, describes how removing his entire fertiliser bill gave him the buffer to experiment — and how a chance comparison between his wife's deferred horse paddock and his own overgrazed one changed how he thinks about growing grass without a drop of water.

A grounded, evidence-based session for any farmer wanting to maintain profitability and production through disruption — and to start planning now for what's coming.