Make Contact
For more information or implementation ideas you may wish to contact
Mick Alexander during office hours on the following numbers
Tel: 07 4938 3919 Mob: 0438 395 255
Or you may wish to use email
Email:
mick@grazingbestprac.com.au
Biography
Mick Alexander is proud father, husband and family man
with a passion for agriculture and people, within rural
Australia.
He and his wife Noela are partners in a rural
training and consulting business “MKL RURAL”, based in
Rockhampton, Queensland and dedicated to “Helping
people take action”.
Mick was brought up on the family farm in the Dalby district
on the Darling Downs, Queensland and served his grazing apprenticeship, in the 1980’s with his first time mentor and grandad, Clarrie Morgan.
This was where he developed his passion and understanding for the rural lifestyle and the knowledge that families need to work together to succeed. Dungbeetles are only one aspect of this dynamic trainer and industry consultant.
He also cares very deeply about the family farm and the success of rural business’s. You can read more about Mick and his business at... www.mklrural.com.au
Mick’s involvement with dungbeetles spans more than a decade from 1995, when working with graziers in the Central Queensland region.
A single grazing family, Bernie and Elizabeth Shelton, “Springwater”, initiated the resurgence in dungbeetles when they contacted Mick to help them increase the dung beetle activity and numbers in the Injune area.
This single action has acted as a catalyst to a journey involving thousands of people, on hundreds of properties gaining untold knowledge, skills and inspiration for “back to nature” (reduced chemicals) forms of agriculture.
In Mick’s words, “George Bornemissa had a vision for Australia and started the exciting dung beetle program with CSIRO. John Feehan “Soilcam”, Canberra continued the work and extended the impact in southern Australia, but very little had happened in Queensland for many years.
Someone had to empower the Queensland grazing community to learn about dungbeetles and to really make them work.” That someone was Mick, at least in Queensland.
The dungbeetles introduced to Australia are part of the reason Australia has a clean green image and it needs to build on that image, by supporting more futuristic dung beetle development programs.
Taroom Shire Landcare Group
A vision for tomorrow, A sustainable graziers dream
A bucket full of ball rollers ( Sisyphus Spinipes)
"The pad was simply moving before our eyes, but we didn't expect to find so many Dung Beetles" Mick Alexander
