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25.01.2022 Parra Trooper behind Landcare Award win -

21.01.2022 The latest on Parra Trooper

20.01.2022 Carbon farming 101

20.01.2022 Congratulations to the Soil C Quest team. A 26% increase in organic Carbon above the control in just 90 days is HUGE. It shows that Dark Septate Endophytes can do the job.

20.01.2022 Industrial scale agriculture is plundering the soil on a scale that is unbelievable to most. Microbial depletion in broadacre grain production is contributing to climate change in the same way as burning fossil fuel. We can't stop, or scale down, food production but we can stop the microbial loss and, thereby, re-store soil Carbon in the world's cropping soils. How can this be done? Soil C Quest is researching methods of inoculating seeds with Carbon sequestering biology and they need your help. Donate to their Crowd funding appeal at: https://www.generosity.com//fix-the-climate-by-fixing-the-

18.01.2022 Carbon Farming documentary trailer.

16.01.2022 We had a hot, hard few days out at Nymagee looking for grass endophytes that may make food production more sustainable, use water better and store Carbon in soil.

16.01.2022 Great progress with our attempts to establish Onitis caffer dung beetles on the mid north coast of NSW. We trapped a few in Kingaroy, Qld, last year. These beetles are winter active and bury dung to 1m deep. They are true ecosystem engineers. Please read the thread for information and advice from beetle expert, John Allen.

16.01.2022 There's a lot that I can't say about what we are up to at Soil C Quest with the Carbon sequestering endophytes at the moment, but I can say that it is exciting work and that we are making progress. If you want to help this amazing work please donate to our crowd funding campaign because we need a bit more cash. It's hard to do this important work on voluntary labour and a shoestring budget .

16.01.2022 You don't have to be a billionaire to be a part of this exciting project. We desperately need your eyes on the ground that you work. The natural microbes that created and maintained fertility are still out there. In a natural system, plants have a complex symbiotic relationship with nutrient acquiring, moisture stress managing, growth promoting and Carbon storing microbes. If we are to re-energise our farmlands, restore profitability to farming enterprises and draw some of the excess CO2 from the atmosphere, we need to find those microbes. If you have unusually productive areas in your crops pasture or rangelands and you want to contribute, PM me. We are mainly bioprospecting, this year, in eastern Australia and parts of the US. https://reneweconomy.com.au/cannon-brookes-cefc-back-carbon

14.01.2022 Champions in Australian Government Landcare Award for Innovation in Agriculture and Land Management!

13.01.2022 Another first for Bootstrap. Well done Adrianna.

13.01.2022 Parra Trooper update April 2018 - https://mailchi.mp/09a463ba/parra-trooper-update-april-2018

11.01.2022 Imagine if we get our pasture roots growing this deep.

10.01.2022 A good article. I am thinking however, that the compost's main benefit was that it introduced beneficial microbes, Dark Septate Endophytes (DSEs) among them, and the microbes sequestered the Carbon. Compost heaps and windrows emit GHGs and produce insufficient material to treat the entire area of farmland. It is also impractical to spread compost on large areas. If we can find the set of microbes that efficiently sequester the Carbon, we can inoculate the land in sprays or seed dressings.

08.01.2022 this photo shows two 800mm cores that were taken either side of our boundary fence today. Our neighbour is a 'conventional farmer' and we have about 13 years of Carbon Farming behind us. As yet, I have not tried any of the specialised Carbon sequestration fungi that we are experimenting with at Soil C Quest but you can easily see that the two soils are different. The Ph differences are profound and show how much humus has been stored even more than the colour. The Ph tests are at 100mm increments from the top left to the bottom right. You can see that the biological system has created 'sweet' soil throughout the profile without the use of mined and processed limestone.

08.01.2022 The Carbon Farmers of Australia Conference this year showed that, despite the reluctance of the Australian Government to support them, increasing numbers of farmers are getting on with the job. There were also a lot of presentations on the trading and investment side of carbon sequestration and some scientific presentations on method and measurement advances. Guy Webb from Soil C Quest was on just before us with a report on the progres that we are making with melanising endophytic fungi and carbon sequestration in broadacre crops. Guy Webb picked up a trophy for his agronomy work and Cathy Eggert and I got one for our work with the endophytes.

04.01.2022 Come and visit us on the June (NSW) long weekend.

03.01.2022 These Dark Septate Endophyte fungi (the little brown lines) photographed at 200x on desert grass roots could be the future of sustainable food production and a big contributor to atmospheric Carbon drawdown. If they were inoculated with these fungi, grasslands and crops could re-store Carbon in the soil - just like they stored it in the soil before we destroyed the natural soil ecosystems. We collected these samples on a field trip with Soil C Quest near Cobar NSW Aust.

03.01.2022 Soil pit open this weekend as part of Hastings Landcare Farm Gate Tour. Our big moment!