Harvesting green cane, leaving the stubble on the paddock, and working with climate information has made the Atkinsons’ sugar cane property in Queensland more sustainable.

A longtime advisor to the worlds casinos on the odds of making a profit from new games, Tony Boyd used the climatic outlook in his decision to buy – and nine years later to sell – his share in a 700,000 hectare cattle station.

Tom Porter’s ticket through the 2002 drought on the New South Wales’ Hay Plains was investing in an irrigation bore to water a millet crop that proved to be vital feed for his merino sheep before the drought broke.

John Ive and his family have lovingly brought their 250 hectare award-winning New South Wales property back from the brink of environmental disaster using science.

An award-winning on-ground water efficiency program, Australian Rainman software and the Southern Oscillation Index are helping Queensland sugar cane farmer Doug Lee manage water for himself and his neighbours.

South Australian farmer Brett Francis is putting his faith in a commercial 15 month outlook, comparing it to historical rainfall and yield data, and setting cut-off dates for sowing.

How do you keep born optimists and risk takers grounded?The answer, according to Birchip farmers Ian and Warwick McClelland, lies in the risk management program Yield Prophet.

After he has gathered the latest climate forecasts from the internet, New South Wales farmer Bill Yates sees his morning two teapot discussion as an important step in fine tuning management during drought.

A shift in thinking to holistic management was key to the Gardiners surviving and thriving through drought in New South Wales