Ian and Di commenced their farming journey in 1994 purchasing 1630 acres of land in the West Australian wheatbelt.  After years of conventional farming, the Haggerty’s realised that their system was vulnerable to dry seasons. Input costs were steadily increasing without corresponding increases in productivity. Soil tests showed adequate nutrient levels, but tissue tests revealed nutrients were not getting to plants in appropriate balance, despite a comprehensive mineral Fertiliser program. To top it off, rainfall from the year 2000 had been less than half the annual average {down from 325mmpa to 200mmpa} often falling in 3 to 5 mm events followed by windy weather, meaning much was lost to evaporation. Maximising crop production in dry years had become a real struggle and hard pans in their soils were severely restricting root growth. So, the Haggerty’s started to research biologically-based farming systems with the aim of increasing their soil’s microbial population, nutrient availability and moisture holding capacity.  What followed was a massive learning curve combining and adapting some of the world’s best ecological knowledge with much ground truthing and extension in harsh Western Australian semi-arid agricultural zone conditions.  Over time the Haggertys have developed a farming system they term Natural Intelligence Farming which focuses on harnessing the dynamic, natural relationships that exists between all the organisms in the ecosystem. Optimising  microbiome integrity of soil, plant, animal and ultimately human microbiome is front and centre with this approach.  The Haggertys are now the fortunate stewards of over 65000 acres of land producing wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticale, mixed legumes, multispecies pastures/hay, merino meat, wool and breeding animals.