Gold Nuggets

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 to the ongoing health of the soil.

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 without chemicals but said that regrettably he had to use glyphosate recently.

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 brain is the most complicated organ in the universe.

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

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 world environment.

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 involved in agriculture in 1845 nitrogen has been grossly abused.

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 crop, and they must replenish it for the following year’s.

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 crop, and they must replenish it for the following year’s.

Regenerative Agriculture as practiced at Rodale Farm is Productive, Competitive and Sustainable. Nearly 30 years of trialling organic v conventional farming has the indisputable research data based on over 50 peer reviewed publications to prove it.

In addition to enhancing water-holding capacity, high organic matter (carbon) performs many other functions in soil, including the maintenance of soil structure allowing water, air and nutrient availability.

In addition to enhancing water-holding capacity, high organic matter (carbon) performs many other functions in soil, including the maintenance of soil structure allowing water, air and nutrient availability.

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 how do we do this?

According to research billions of dollars are being spent on fertilizers in industrial farming systems. The result is that in last 60 years farmers are increasingly in debt while international corporations continue to thrive.

Farmers forever tenaciously confident in this industry’s future came to realize the reality that the government cancer of market-ism – a disease carried on the wind of corporate interest – was, for them, ultimately a death sentence.

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 farming like their fathers did? Or are you perhaps still not sure about making steps toward biological farming? Why is this so?

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 – sometimes inappropriately, dealing with the immediate problem rather than planning and preparing our defence.

We aim to control the ryegrass and other problem weeds by simply spraying one or two applications of glyphosate. The Hauslers acquired land that was showing a problem with herbicide-resistant annual ryegrass. “We followed it last year and this season we have sown GT Scorpion

GRAIN growers Tim and Julia Hausler have a simple reason for growing genetically modified canola – it saves them money. “If the benefits were not there or if it was costing us money we would not be doing it

The first step was tillage. That was what started the process of loss of the life, and conversion of your soil into an environment that can no longer grow beneficial organisms.