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The Northern Australian Climate Program (NACP) extension service delivers workshops, field day talks, property visits, and webinars to provide the support and confidence for regional producers to use weather and climate information in decision making. This service helps producers to make more informed assessments of climate forecasts and understand the factors that can influence their specific region in the days, weeks, and months ahead. Integration between research, development and extension allows for the most relevant and up-to-date climate information to be used in the field to meet end-user needs, and for industry feedback to further inform the program's activities for the benefit of agricultural communities. This iterative model has proven very successful in Australia, as evidenced by the industry funding of the third NACP program (NACP3). One of the main measurements of the success of the program and its impact on producers is meeting Category C goals, which describe the number of practice changes (189 to date) resulting from timely and effective use of the NACP extension and adoption service. We highlight how the NACP extension service is helping the grazing industry to manage drought and climate risk in northern Australia by improving weather and climate awareness, improving knowledge and skills, providing support and confidence to use this in decision making, and delivering practice change to reduce climate risk and drive positive financial, environmental and social outcomes.