Agriculture
Nature-based Solutions for Productive, Resilient Agriculture Systems.
The Industry Challenge
We help landholders, agribusiness and industry partners improve productivity, demonstrate environmental performance and unlock new revenue through ecosystem markets. Our dedicated landholder service - DROVER Land Management - enables individual landholders to access our ecological engineering expertise.
Agriculture is under increasing pressure to do more with less - producing food and fibre while improving soil health, protecting water quality and responding to evolving market and regulatory expectations.
For landholders, the challenge is practical:
How do you improve productivity and resilience without increasing risk?
For industry and government, the challenge is systemic:
How do you measure, incentivise and scale better land management outcomes?
Verterra brings these together through ecological engineering - integrating soil, water, vegetation and land use systems to deliver outcomes that are both productive and provable.
Key Challenges We Solve
Declining Soil Health and Ground Cover
Declining Soil Health and Ground Cover
Climate Variability and Resilience Pressures
Erosion and Sediment Loss Impacting Productivity and Water Quality
Fragmented Access to Ecosystem Markets
Increasing Compliance and Reporting Requirements
Difficulty Separating Management Impact from Seasonal Conditions
An Integrated Approach to Land Management
Verterra applies a structured, science-led approach to agriculture through our Performance Ecosystem. This ecosystem forms the basis of Verterra’s services and our DROVER Land Management service, designed to enable individual landholders to access Verterra’s ecological engineering expertise.
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Measure environmental performance, establish defensible baselines, identify risks, and track perfromance over time.
Property and paddock-scale monitoring delivered through DROVER Monitor
Benchmarking against local reference conditions
Ground cover, water quality and sediment perfromance tracking
Market-ready measurement for credits and reporting
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Design and deliver soil, landform and vegetation systems that restore function and productivity.
Soil amelioration, nutrient balancing and access to biosolids
Grazing land management plans
Erosion control and landscape repair
Integrated farm and irrigation planning
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Unlock new revenue streams and long-term value from improved land performance.
ENVOMARK Reef Credits and water quality market access
Soil carbon project development
Natural capital and ecosystem projects
Beneficial reuse of nutrients and water
DROVER Land Management is a whole-of-property system developed by Verterra to help landholders assess performance, improve management and access environmental markets.
DROVER Land Management offers:
DROVER Monitor: a decision-support service that equips landholders with locally relevant data and insights that improve productivity, build resilience and demonstrate stewardship.
DROVER Assess: soil sampling, land classification and site assessments that uncover opportunities and boost productivity.
DROVER Improve: expert planning and advisory services designed to maximise performance.
DROVER Restore: tailored rehabilitation, revegetation and native seed supply targeted degraded landscapes
DROVER Credit: end-to-end support to access ecosystem markets including carbon, water quality and biodiversity.
DROVER Land Management
Tailored Solutions for Agriculture
ReVive is Verterra’s solution for restoring soil function on degraded landscapes, to enable successful rehabilitation and long-term landscape performance.
Rather than relying on limited or poor-quality topsoil, ReVive addresses the underlying physical, chemical and biological constraints that prevent vegetation establishment and long-term stability.
ReVive delivers:
Detailed soil characterisation to identify key constraints
Site-specific amelioration strategies to improve structure, fertility and water holding capacity
Design of fit-for-purpose growth media systems using available site materials and organic inputs
Improved vegetation establishment, root development and long-term ecosystem function
ReVive combines advanced soil science with practical application to transform degraded landscapes into functional soil systems that support resilient rehabilitation outcomes and long-term performance.
Soil Regeneration at Landscape Scale
IMPROVE
ReVert applies ecological engineering principles to diagnose why landscape-scale degradation is occurring before designing how to repair it, ensuring interventions address root causes - not just symptoms. Led by nationally accredited expertise, including one of only four Registered Soil Practitioners in Australia certified in Gully Repair, ReVert combines advanced science with practical on-ground delivery to achieve durable results.
ReVert delivers:
Gully repair and stabilisation
Streambank rehabilitation and riparian restoration
Soil amelioration to restore structure and function (via ReVive)
Grazing land rehabilitation and pasture recovery
Catchment-scale erosion reduction strategies
Landscape, Streambank and Gully Rehabilitation with Landform Design
VALUE
ReValue Nutrients focuses on transforming organic and residual resources into productive inputs. By applying soil science, nutrient balancing and ecological system design, ReValue Nutrients provides landholders with access to organic fertiliser solutions that align with regenerative agriculture goals.
Solutions are designed to optimise nutrient performance while protecting environmental integrity and regulatory compliance.
ReValue Nutrients delivers:
Biosolids and organic amendments
Nutrient recovery and optimisation
Soil fertility enhancement
Agricultural productivity improvement
Nutrient Optimisation and Biosolids
Supporting a Long-Term Future
By taking applying whole-of-system thinking and an ecological engineering approach, Verterra helps balance agricultural productivity with long-term landscape resilience to support a thriving industry.
Science-led, with Practical Delivery
From research to on-ground implementation.
Whole-of System Thinking
An integrated approach to soil, water, vegetation, and land use.
Proven Outcomes
Supported by defensible data that stands up to scrutiny.
Market Expertise
Deep involvement in development of workable standards and market methods.
End-to-End Support
From baseline to on-ground implementation and verifiable outcomes.
Our Agriculture Projects
Our Specialist Agriculture Team
Mieke Elder
Agriculture, DROVER Land Management and ReValue Nutrients Lead
Ben Silverwood
DROVER Land Management Technical Services Lead and Chief UAV Pilot
Dave Waterson
Rehabilitation and Land Management Sector Lead
Andrew Yates
Forestry, DROVER Land Management and ReValue Ecosystems Lead
Belinda Potter
Agriculture AdvisorInsights for Operators
Our team regularly publishes insights on productivity, environmental markets and nature-based solutions for the agricultural sector, both through Verterra and DROVER Land Management.
Turn Better Land Management into Measurable Value
Whether you're a landholder looking to improve productivity, or an organisation seeking to deliver scalable environmental outcomes, Verterra provides the tools, science and delivery capability to make it happen.