Topic: Farming

The hand-held Brix meter was originally designed for farmers to measure nutrient levels of their produce and when to harvest crops. This precision ins…

A handy tool that every farmer interested in nutrient density and maximising production and quality is the refractometer, also known as a brix meter. …

This is a big subject, where we are just starting to experiment. Specific weeds come up for specific crops. For example in potatoes, Apple of Peru (Ni…

If land is left uncovered due to land clearing or drought, certain weed species will rush in to cover the land. If it has had bush cleared then you wi…

Often weeds are seen as a problem rather than beneficial to the land. Many weeds and herbs are known to be mineral accumulators and are very important…

Important points to consider when choosing to use a chemical hopefully as a last resort. Last week I was speaking with a farmer who was farming withou…

No matter who you are you work better when your brain works better. The brain is involved in everything you do – how you think, feel, act. The brai…

Grazing management is another tool for maintaining soil nutrients is managing the landscape with livestock. Managing grazing can increase the health o…

All growers should grow or capture their own nitrogen. When you capture your own nitrogen you save your time, your money, your soil and ultimately the…

Nitrogen is vital for plants growth in the formation of proteins which is in turn vital to much of living matter. Since science started to get involve…

Nitrogen is elemental to life. It's the essential building block of the plants we eat. Farmers remove it from the soil when they harvest the year's cr…

Nitrogen is elemental to life. It's the essential building block of the plants we eat. Farmers remove it from the soil when they harvest the year's cr…

Regenerative Agriculture as practiced at Rodale Farm is Productive, Competitive and Sustainable. Nearly 30 years of trialling organic v conventional f…

In addition to enhancing water-holding capacity, high organic matter (carbon) performs many other functions in soil, including the maintenance of soil…

In addition to enhancing water-holding capacity, high organic matter (carbon) performs many other functions in soil, including the maintenance of soil…

What is it going to take for the support to shift from industrial farming to regenerative farming where Mother Nature is allowed to do her work? And h…

According to research billions of dollars are being spent on fertilizers in industrial farming systems. The result is that in last 60 years farmers ar…

Farmers forever tenaciously confident in this industry's future came to realize the reality that the government cancer of market-ism - a disease carri…

Are you one of the early adopters or what some might term ‘a renegade’ in your farming community? Do you wonder why other farmers are still farmin…

The opposite to resilience is to be vulnerable which in essence means open to attack at all levels! And when we are under attack we respond - sometime…