“You can only get healthy food off a healthy landscape” – Charlie Massy. Charles Massy, grazier and author, spoke this week in Bathurst about his new book Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture – A New Earth. Reflecting …
Australian Agriculture and its future
Anika Molesworth is a young 28 year old from Broken Hill who in 2015 was selected as the Australian Young Farmer of the Year. Anika is currently completing her PhD. Her pet interests concern equity for farmers in Australia and …
Ecological Farming is the answer
Ecological Farming is the answer according to a major report just released. The June 2016 report by the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems calls for a paradigm shift from Industrial Agriculture to diversified Agroecological Systems. The key …
Biodiversity in soils
Biodiversity is a key word in the following article which is from a USA based website called Dirt First – Food and Environment Reporting Network. The thoughts gel with the principles Vince Heffernan is referring to and with that which the EAAA …
Drought and flooding rains
Walter Jehne, former CSIRO Climate Scientist and Microbiologist, founder of Healthy Soils Australia, has written a 3-part document on drought in Australia and in it he demonstrates many scientific facts about how we should be managing our soils. There are …
Our one and only Earth
‘There is no Planet B’ From the Climate Crisis to the Extinction Crisis What is happening and what must happen now-and fast Dr Johannes Bauer The Australian Institute of Ecological Agriculture Co-operative Ltd Climate Change and Biodiversity Program Having worked …
Editorial May 2019
“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.” Quote from writer Paulo …
Link between Glyphosate and Kidney Disease
And now to a story that is never far from the headlines. If is about an EPA – Registered herbicide that has been linked to kidney disease. This story demonstrates the extent that entities will go to protext their commercial …
Agronomic Review: The latest
NARROW SPACING IN CHICKPEAS Queensland researchers report using narrow-row spacing to help fight annual ryegrass (ARG) in chickpea crops. A two-year Gatton trial compared results between rows spaced 25cm apart with those spaced 75cm apart. The scientists found narrow-row spacing …
Link between Glyphosate and Kidney Disease
And now to a story that is never far from the headlines. If is about an EPA – Registered herbicide that has been linked to kidney disease. This story demonstrates the extent that entities will go to protext their commercial …
The universal declaration of responsibilities for human rights and Earth trusteeship
On 10 December 2018, the world celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations. The Universal Declaration and subsequent human rights covenants are treasured as precious manifestations of the human spirit. The …
Editorial March 2019
On the 21 March a meeting was held at Southern Cross University (SCU) which will have a large bearing on the future direction of the regenerative agricultural movement. Over 20 leaders of agricultural organisations met to discuss the formation of …