BOWEN grazier Bob Harris told an agriculture climate workshop in Proserpine he was already "one of the converted".

Converted to the belief that climate is changing and action needed to be taken to mitigate against changing weather patterns.

The workshop hosted by Reef Catchments consisted of two parts; the first addressed climate adaptation and applying the climate risk matrix, while the second session addressed carbon farming.

"The reason I am here is to increase my knowledge of climate forecasting and the tools available," Mr Harris said. 　

"Not all my questions were answered but these fellas did give us the opportunity to try and get a better handle on forecasting and understanding the future of climate."

Participants worked as a group, modelling reduced rainfall and together developed a climate risk matrix.

Mr Harris who runs 500 head of cattle at his 6000 acre property south of Bowen said he knew graziers near Collinsville who had been practising holistic land management practices for the last four years.

"They have turned the world upside down. They are growing better grasses with less rainfall than they ever did before," he said.

Other participants at the workshop Hannah and Darryl Trimble, ploughed out cane to run Brahman and ultra-black cattle on their 288 acre farm 10kms north of Bloomsbury.

Historical data was presented and overlayed with climate predictions and Hannah said for her, the workshop was about learning to mitigate against a future with less rain and hotter temperatures.

"It's not all negative. There is increased growth in pasture with increased CO2 levels and they are unsure about what is going to happen to rainfall," she said.

"It might not be affected so much. It's not necessarily going to affect us growing pasture."

General manager of GreenCollar, Dave Moore, then spoke to the group about carbon farming.

GreenCollar is a 'conservation for profit' company who introduced the idea of a commercial value in making land management adjustments.

"There is an opportunity to integrate carbon in much smaller parcels of land and there may be opportunities to have collective arrangements where you might get neighbours together to do a carbon project," Mr Moore said.

"In addition to that we are looking at payments for other ecosystem services outside of carbon.

"So for those land holders who might be addressing water quality or reduction in sediment or fertiliser on sugar cane properties, we are actually looking to create a market to pay for those additional land use changes."

Mr Moore said carbon farming could take the form of planting trees or making the decision not to clear land but it must make commercial sense to do so.

"That is what our job is. The only reason they are going to want to do these projects is if it stacks up commercially," he said.