Can Organic Farming Feed the World? Part 4
High input farming methods that produce low-cost food are fast becoming obsolete. The synthetic chemical fertilizers that produce quantity instead of …
Topic: Farming
Can Organic Farming Feed the World? Part 3
Our current world food production is more than sufficient to provide an adequate diet to all humans, yet more than 840 million people are suffering fr…
Can Organic Farming Feed the World? Part 2
With the recent meeting of world leaders at Copenhagen the debate over climate change inevitably included discussion of the ever growing population an…
Can Organic Farming Feed the World?
With the world population passing the 6 billion mark last October, the debate over our ability to sustain a fast growing population is heating up. Bio…
Are you generally easily influenced by the “opinions” of others. Do you let the newspapers, farm journals and the “gossiping” neighbours do your “thinking” for you?
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a load of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influe…
How valued in Western society is the farmer today?
Not very. The average consumer just goes to his local supermarket and picksup whatever he wants and has no idea who has grown it. It’s even packaged…
So What has Happened to Agriculture Over the Last Hundred Years?
Basically rural populations in industrial countries have diminished while the cities have flourished which in essence means that more and more people …
Agriculture has played a key role in the development of human civilisation and until the Industrial Revolution the vast majority of the human population was involved in agriculture.
Over thousands of years, agricultural techniques have steadily increased agricultural productivity during a time which we now call the Agrarian Revolu…
Social proof is massive when forming our opinions. Many farmers belong to small communities where we learn from others and the need to belong and fit in is very important.
Unfortunately it can also be very limiting. Most of us have all heard of the “100th monkey” story. If not here it is. Over 50 years ago on an isla…
Bread From Stones
Since Julius Hensel’s “Bread From Stones” thousands of books and research papers have been written yet the effect on agriculture has not been as…
In 1893 “Bread from Stones” was written by Julius Hensel and is recognised as the first book to raise the awareness to farmers of their options available to them.
In 1893 “Bread from Stones” was written by Julius Hensel and is recognised as the first book to raise the awareness to farmers of their options av…
In 1975 it was revealed that plants and insects “talk” to each other
When you know and accept this, you can learn how to control insects without the use of toxic sprays. A worldwide revolution in agriculture occurred in…
The Cause Of Yellowing Plants Is Not Always A Lack Of Nitrogen
Then why do plants yellow? Plants yellow from a number of reasons. It is poorly understood that yellowing is most likely caused by a number of nutrien…
To Spray or Not To Spray”? Or “Who To Trust When It Comes To Rust?
Are you farming solely to produce food and make a profit somehow or are you farming to produce food and make a profit and to create and be part of a h…
Farmer Observation V Scientific Proof
When farmers observe some fundamentals that really work for them these observations often are not treated seriously by their fellow farmers. They get …
Did you know that a single tablespoon of healthy soil might contain over a billion beneficial soil microbes!!!
In a healthy soil there are literally hundreds and hundreds of species of soil bacteria, soil fungi, and many other microscopic soil organisms. The pr…
Bacteria is Essential to All Life Above the Ground in this World
Bacteria is absolutely essential to all life above the ground as we know it in this world. Our world is calculated to be 4.6 billion years old and the…
To Increase Their Yields And Get A Bigger Return Most Farmers Are Told To Feed Their Soils
Let’s look at some basics of how the plants and soils function which get overlooked in main stream agriculture. A plant consists mainly of products …
Is Your Farm a Factory or a Biological Organism and as such Part of the Environment in which You Live?
Are you farming solely to produce food and make a profit Or are you farming to produce food, make a profit and to create and be part of a healthy, sus…
Getting the Farmers To Use Commercial Products For Life
If all farmers would only realize that the aim of agribusiness is to create loyal customers and have farmers using their products for life then farmer…
