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. Biotechnology advocates in particular are becoming very vocal in their claim…
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 influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking…
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 or your convenience and keeps forages and the prices you pay are at least 60%…
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 rely on farmers to feed them. Shouldn’t this mean then that farmers are able to charge more…
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 Revolution. Throughout this expansion of agriculture new technologies and new crops…
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 island off Japan, scientists had been observing the Japanese monkey in the wild for a period of over 30 years.
Shared – dare I call it – WISDOM
Ask of all theory & practice – what is it in the service of? – before supporting or copying it. Work mostly with ‘small meaningful achievable initiatives’ vs. ‘Olympic-scale projects’ (most of these are abandoned or fail, & have numerous negative side-effects)
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 high as it ought to be. Why?
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 available to them. Despite the book being written over hundred and 14 years ago..
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 1975 when Dr Phil Callahan published his book “Tuning into Nature”
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 nutrient deficiencies. In fact one or more of 8 missing nutrients can cause plant yellowing.
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 healthy, sustainable future? Once again this time of the year rural publications…
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 comments like: Where is the scientific proof? If that was so, why aren’t more farmers doing it? Etc.
Are you aware that without soil fungi and bacteria the continuous natural cycle of life would not be assured?
Fungi and bacteria are the primary recyclers of nutrients in the soil, decomposing complex organic compounds and returning their minerals to the soil the next generation of plants and animals. So what should you be doing to look after them?
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 problem is that most of the soils that have been farmed conventionally…
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 oldest fossilised bacteria which has been found was in Australia and is about 3.5 billion years old.
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 that come from above the soil – that is from the atmosphere or the cosmos.
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, sustainable future?
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 farmers may look beyond the ever ready “solutions” these companies always seem to provide.
Men are Anxious to Improve their Circumstances but are Unwilling to Improve Themselves, They Therefore Remain Bound
Most farmers want to improve their farm and are constantly on the search for better ways of farming, not only to get more profits but also to look good to their neighbours. Let’s face it, everyone knows if your crops…
What Stops Farmers From Making The Change From Conventional to Biological Farming?
On speaking with many conventional farmers the No. 1 fear that stops change is that taking any steps from traditional practices will lead to loss of production inferior in quality and to loss of cash flow.
Are You at the Fore Front of New Farming Techniques?
At Farming Secrets we continually find farmers whose methods and practices are ahead of the current technology. In
many cases they are disparaged as what they are doing has not been proved by science that it works!
Chefs Follow a Tradition that Goes Back for Centuries when Foraging for Edible Wild Plants to Enrich their Menus
Unlike most of us who disparage weeds as unwelcome guests in our gardens (and paddocks), (many chefs have) quite a taste for them – literally.
Chefs Lead the Way for Local Organic Food along with Environmentally Aware People
Due to the rising costs of oil, in the form of fertilisers and pesticides, in the distances produce travels from farm to plate and in the energy it takes to process it, farming has the potential to go through the greatest…
