McIvor Farm Foods

Taungurung Country, Tooborac, Victoria, Australia

Alley Farming | Timber & Biodiversity Species | Livestock Integration (pigs, beef cattle, sheep)

Topo Survey | Whole Farm Plan | Earthworks | Enterprise Planning | Monitoring

www.McIvorFarmFoods.com.au
@mcivorfarmfoods

37°3'24.85"S, 144°47'47.47"E | 348m ASL | 579mm Avg. Rainfall

We first met Belinda & Jason in 2009 when they attended a ‘Keyline Farming Course’ that we led at ‘Taranaki Farm’ (Woodend, Victoria) and this coincided with them taking over a 100ha portion of Jason’s family’s sheep grazing property. With tertiary animal science and agriculture qualifications and years working in the pig industry they both wanted to raise pigs but to do so in a way that was more ‘regenerative’. In 2016, they were able to take over the balance of what now a 200ha (500ac) holding.

This is a design and development of two parts, 6 years apart, with the same focus of developing gravity-fed water storage and reticulation systems, all-weather internal access roads, tree crop integration and a KiwiTech-based water hydrants & fencing layout.

The feedback from the return on investment (ROI) and operations provided that there was no change to the planning framework for the 2017 farm plan for the adjacent 100ha parcel.

Such has been the performance of this multi-award winning farm, that in recent years the Hagan’s have added sheep & cattle grazing and in 2020 added an on-farm butchery to the mix of enterprises on what is widely recognised as the benchmark pastured pig production farm in the world.

2013 - Concept Plan > 2015 Satellite Layout - Image Credit: Maxar (Google Earth Pro), Regrarians (Darren J Doherty)
2014 - Berkshire ‘growers’ grazing spring pastures - Image Credit: Regrarians
2018 - CGI render of savannah scene depiction in 50-80 years - Image Credit: Regrarians (Georgi Pavlov)
2025 - Yeomans Keyline Plow Assembly - Image Credit: McIvor Farm Foods
2024 - Planned Grazing of Cattle in Keyline Strips - Image Credit: McIvor Farm Foods
2024 - Mixed Species Warm Season Cover Crop - Image Credit: McIvor Farm Foods
2023 - Landscape function analysis - Image Credit: McIvor Farm Foods
2015 - Regrarians Keyline Super Plow MK2 - Image Credit: McIvor Farm Foods & Regrarians
2021 - Water reticulation system layout - Image Credit: Airbus (Google Earth Pro), Regrarians (Georgi Pavlov)
2024 - Satellite Image + 1m topographic plan - Image Credit: Maxar (Google Earth Pro), FarmingIT, Regrarians (Darren J Doherty)
2019 - Plant health monitoring series using the farm’s DJI Mavic Pro and processed with DroneDeploy as part of our UAV Mapping Service - Image Credit: McIvor Farm Foods (Jason Hagan) & Regrarians (Darren J Doherty)
2019 - Plant health monitoring series using the farm’s DJI Mavic Pro and processed with DroneDeploy’s NDVI filter as part of our UAV Mapping Service. The purpose being to benchmark ground cover changes due to changes in state government legislation - Image Credit: McIvor Farm Foods (Jason Hagan) & Regrarians (Darren J Doherty)
2016 - Keyline Super Plow known as ‘Yvonne’ - Yeomans Plow Co. 3SB subsoiler + Hatzenbichler seedbox + Acra no-till disc openers assembled by Jason Hagan. Image Credit: Jason Hagan
2016 - (May) Emergence of cover crop seedlngs sown in the weeks before by the Keyline Super Plow. Image Credit: Jason Hagan
2016 - (July) Cover crop sown using the Keyline Super Plow. Image Credit: Jason Hagan
2016 - (August) Cover crop sown using the Keyline Super Plow now being grazed by the farm’s pigs. Image Credit: Jason Hagan