Nitrogen is Elemental to Life – Part 4
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 Elemental to Life – Part 3
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 – Part 2
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 – Part 1
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
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.
Future Farming: Productive, Competitive and Sustainable
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.
Future Farming: Productive, Competitive and Sustainable
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.
Future Farming: Productive, Competitive and Sustainable.
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?
Future Farming: Productive, Competitive and Sustainable
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.
‘Australia is in danger of becoming a country of modern-day serfs working for a foreign landlord’ Bob Katter*
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 Immune to “Herd Thinking”?
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 Importance of Creating a Resilient Farm
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.
GRAIN growers Tim and Julia Hausler – Growing Genetically Modified Canola – Part 2
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 – Growing Genetically Modified Canola – Part 1
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
Dr. Elaine Ingham put together a scientific paper, in ‘Crop Protection’ (scientific journal) – Part 3
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.
Dr. Elaine Ingham put together a scientific paper, in ‘Crop Protection’ (scientific journal) – Part 3
Around 1980 Dr. Elaine Ingham* put together a scientific paper, in ‘Crop Protection’ (scientificjournal) that summarised the work published in the scientific literature about the damage that atrazine, and its sister compounds, simazine, triazine, or any of the related chemical compounds, does to soil life.
If Atrazine has such an impact on frogs what about people? Part 2
Atrazine at levels of 0.1 parts per billion turns on an enzyme in frogs (Aromastase) which converts testosterone hormones into estrogen effectively chemically castrating male frogs. Of special concern is the fact that the aromostase gene sequence and regulation in frogs is the same as humans. If Atrazine has such an impact on frogs what about people?
Dr.Tyrone B. Hayes* Conducts Research into the Herbicide Atrazine – Part 1
In 1998 Dr.Tyrone B.Hayes* was contacted by the company Novartis/Syngenta to conduct the research into the herbicide Atrazine. His research showed that even low doses as low as 0.1 parts per billion of the herbicide Atrazine can chemically castrate frogs
“Without healthy soil, we can’t grow our food, nourish our livestock, conserve water and resist the effects of drought, erosion and climate change.” Peter Holter, Holistic Management International (HMI)
Without healthy soil, we can’t grow our food, nourish our livestock, conserve water and resist the effects of drought, erosion and climate change. In order to reduce CO2 emissions, it’s critical that we pay very close attention to soil health
Plague Locust Control – Part 2
High summer and autumn rainfall this year has provided an ideal environment for locusts to breed and lay eggs extensively. Normally, each generation has only one batch of eggs, but this year has seen “two, three, or even four batches
Plague Locust Control on Organic Farms – Part 1
Across NSW a number of agencies including Industry & Investment NSW (I&I NSW), NSW Farmers Association, Livestock Health and Pest Authorities (LHPAs), Australian Plague Locust Commission and NSW land managers continue work together to control locusts.
Water And Its Circulation In Nature – Part 4
Now the sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth.
Water And Its Circulation In Nature Part 3
There are two water cycles – The large water cycle which is the exchange of water between ocean and land and the small water cycle which is a closed circulation of water in which water evaporated on land falls in the form of precipitation…
Water And Its Circulation In Nature Part 2
We all rely on water to survive and prosper and yet it seems that water is becoming a scarce commodity in many parts of the world. Are we managing this resource wisely?