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25.01.2022 This drought has fast become the worst drought on records. So I want to assure you that as your local MP, Im doing everything I can to ensure you get the assis...tance and support you need. One of those forms of assistance is transport freight subsidies. Thats why Im urging everyone who applied for the Drought Transport Subsidy in the 2018-19 financial year to claim your freight invoices by the end of this month. All claims for round one have to be lodged with the NSW Rural Assistance Authority (RAA) by the end of September. Claiming the transport subsidy is simple and can even be done online at the Rural Assistance Authority website www.raa.nsw.gov.au #drought #transport #subsidy #dontmissout #helpingourfarmers

25.01.2022 Sometimes called holistic management, regenerative agriculture combines concepts of healing before producing, considering the long-term consequences of farming ...activities on the soil. Embodied by low-cost practices, regenerative agriculture aims to improve resource use, biological diversity and perennial crops. Regenerative agriculture begins with soil restoration. In nature, soil holds life, the organisms, microbes and insects, that when fed by the plants, return nutrients to the plants. Favouring this microbial life strengthens soil health, nourishes crops and manages pests and disease with the support of plant diversity and beneficial organisms such as birds or pollinators. In conventional agriculture, pesticides kill these beneficial organisms, disrupting soil and plants cycles, decreasing over time crop productivity. In contrast, regenerative agriculture achieves productivity as the soil recovers and rebuilds, producing more with less input. In continuity, this enables biodiversity to return, thus increasing ecosystem stability, while providing increased resilience towards potential environmental changes, without reducing agricultural yields. Comparative field studies have shown increased biodiversity generate higher crop yields than intensive management. Think of it as a closed loop system, far from the logic using synthetic chemical inputs.

22.01.2022 Are you gettings tails on your silage? Chances are you have some blunt knives. The film MUST be released by the catch and cut mechanism at the start of the new ...wrapping cycle If the knife is not sharp enough, broken or misaligned and the film does not release, it will allow air into the end of the bale, between the film layers, resulting in poor quality silage. See more

20.01.2022 AMANI WHITE DORPERS QLD SALE DIRRANBANDI SHOW GROUNDS FRIDAY 3rd APRIL 50 top quality rams for sale by auction LambPlan measured... Brucellosis accredited Dermo tested Top genetics at commercial prices Ready to work

19.01.2022 When managed properly cattle can help in the sequestration of carbon

17.01.2022 Time for a proper war on weeds

16.01.2022 NZ leading Austrlia yet again

15.01.2022 The way to go in the North. Opportunities are endless

14.01.2022 All the best Bill

13.01.2022 Great people to work for

12.01.2022 Get it while you can

12.01.2022 Carbon is the basis of agriculture - agriculture should not be demonised, but instead helped

12.01.2022 Heres how it solves all those problems: Grassland is the largest ecosystem on land, so what happens to grassland is important. And today, 70% of grasslands on... earth have either turned into deserts or are in the process of turning into deserts. Why? What is happening? Some areas of the earth dont get enough rainfall to grow trees but get enough to grow grass, like the Great Plains of North America, the Serengeti in Africa, or the vast Mongolian Steppe. Before the domestication of grazing animals, these grasslands were swarming with enormous herds of wild grazing animals. The grass plants and the grazing animals evolved together over millions of years. Believe it or not, they need each other like bees and flowers. When the wild grazing herds were replaced with domesticated grazing animals, some big areas began turning into deserts. So people made the logical conclusion that domesticated animals make grasslands turn into deserts. Environmentalists decided the obvious solution is to stop domesticated animals from grazing some of these regions of land so the land could recover, but when they do it, the land doesnt recover. It continues to turn into desert. It turns out, a desertified grassland actually needs grazing animals to thrive again. The problem isnt the kind of animals grazing on the grass, its the way the animals are grazing. Wild herds and domesticated herds behave differently. Do you know why? You can answer the question yourself. What do wild grazing animals always have nearby? Predators! And the predators scare the grazers and make them crowd together in a bunch. So a herd intensively grazes one concentrated area. But of course it starts filling up with poop and piss, so the bunch moves on, and doesnt come back until the stink is gone and the grass has recovered. When a patch of land goes through this repeatedly, the grass grows in abundance. It is getting regularly fertilized and mowed. You know what the fertilizer does, but the mowing is important too. Without mowing, grass grows tall, goes to seed, and then dies out. That is a grass plants life cycle. And in the spring, new grass has to grow in the shade of all the dead grass from last season. The old dead grass smothers the new grass, blocking out its sunlight, so not as much grass grows the next year. The bare patches of land harden into a crust, and when rain falls on it, the water doesnt soak in as well. It runs off, taking topsoil with it, and evaporates quickly. So theres less water and nutrients in the soil, causing even less grass to grow the next season. The grassland has begun to turn to desert. The biologist, Allan Savory, and other pioneers have found a way to mimic the effect of natural grazing animals (with their predators) but without the predators, using domesticated animals. All a rancher has to do is bunch the animals together, either by herding them carefully or with the use of paddocks, and then move them frequently, and make sure they dont come back to the same plot of ground until the grass has recovered. You can see some good before and after pictures in Allan Savorys TED talk called How to green the worlds deserts and reverse climate change. His talk is about how to manage grazing animals effectively. His method is called Holistic Management. When ranchers begin to use Holistic Management, they have to increase the number of animals every year for a while to keep up with the increase in the amount of grass that grows. It makes the land so much more productive that it produces more food for humans, but it produces more food for the wild animals too. It turns more of the falling sunlight into grass. In other words, Holistic Management means more of the sunlight is converted into plant material, more of the rain goes into the soil, into the plants, and into the aquifers. Less runs off and evaporates. Floods become less of a problem when they happen, and they happen less often. And the land suffers less from drought, because the more soil life, the more water it can hold. And because more of the water gets absorbed into the ground, the plants are more resilient and more able to survive drought conditions for longer. Thriving grass also cools the atmosphere and prevents soil erosion. One of the more interesting and important effects of desertification of the largest ecosystem on earth is that when land turns to desert, it releases an enormous amount of CO2 into the atmosphere. And when this process reverses, it pulls that CO2 out of the atmosphere and puts it into the ground. Thats because the life in the soil is made of carbon. Soil life is made up of organisms ranging in size from one-celled bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa, to more complex arthropods and nematodes, to earthworms, insects, small vertebrates, and of course, plants. One teaspoon of healthy soil contains millions of beneficial soil microorganisms that include thousands of species of bacteria and fungi. All of this is made of carbon. The carbon comes from the CO2 in the air, brought into the soil by plants. Experts have estimated that using Holistic Management on only half of our barren or semi-barren grasslands would remove so much carbon from the air that our atmosphere would be like it was before the industrial age began. Not only does Holistic Management reverse desertification, it produces food without the need for chemical fertilizers or pesticides or fungicides, so it prevents the contamination of groundwater and surface-water. Over 40 million acres of land are now being managed using Holistic Management, and the results are really quite impressive. Look at the before and after pictures in the links at the end of this article. I think you will be surprised at the results. This method is ending poverty for people who rely on these desertifying lands for their sustenance because it makes the land so much more productive. This can help solve other problems too. There is no reason to burn the Amazon rain forest to create grasslands for cattle. There are already-existing grasslands all over the world in desperate need of grazing animals right now. Read more about this: https://www.adamlikhan.com//literally-saving-earth-by-rege

12.01.2022 They ran to the groceries, they filled up their carts, They emptied the Price Chopper, Tops and Walmart, They panicked and fought and then panicked some more, ...Then they rushed to their homes and they locked all the doors. The food will be gone! The milk eggs and cheese! The yogurt! The apples! The green beans and peas! The stores have run out, now what will we do? Therell be starving and looting and nothing to do! Then they paused, and they listened a moment or two. And they did hear a sound, rising over the fear, It started out far, then began to grow near. But this sound wasnt sad, nor was it new, The farms were still doing what farms always do. The food was still coming, though theyd emptied the shelves, The farms kept it coming, though they struggled themselves, Though the cities had forgotten from where their food came, The farms made them food every day, just the same. Through weather and critics and markets that fall, The farms kept on farming in spite of it all. They farmed without thank yous. They farmed without praise. They farmed on the hottest and coldest of days. Theyd bought all the food, yet the next day came more, And the people thought of something they hadnt before. Maybe food, they thought, doesnt come from a store. Maybe farmers, perhaps, mean a little bit more. *Updated to answer some messages Ive gotten: yes, I wrote it. No, I dont care if you credit me when you share it. Thats all- farm on, Anna Richards

09.01.2022 The only way to roll this Christmas

07.01.2022 Amani White Dorpers Ram Sale 52 Top Quality Rams for sale by Auction Auctioneer Anthony Hyland - GDL St George Tuesday 27th October 2020 @ 11am St George Showgrounds

06.01.2022 Well said Danica

06.01.2022 The soil on the left is the result of regenerative agriculture. Sheep and cattle were carefully managed and rotated on the land. They ate the grass, deposited t...heir urine and dung and were then moved away to let the grass grow back quickly. The cycle is then repeated at a later date. This allows the pulling of carbon into the soil. It is darker because carbon from the atmosphere (and more organic matter) is now in the soil. The soil on the right is from the neighbours farm (where the corners of the paddocks meet) but only regular grazing methods were used there (animals were kept in one area). The soil with more carbon holds a lot more water (roughly 150,000 liters of water per hectare for every 1% of carbon thats added) and is full of microbes. Whether we eat them or not, carefully managed animals play a crucial role in regenerating the land and getting carbon into the soil. We can also grow grains, vegetables and many other crops using Regenerative practices that improve the quality of the soil. #regenerativeagriculture #theregeneration @savoryinstitute

06.01.2022 If youre worried about the environment, drive less. If you want to be healthy, eat a well balanced diet that INCLUDES meat and dairy products. ... If youre worried that farm animals are mistreated, visit a bunch of farms. Agriculture contributes a small fraction of all greenhouse gas emissions compared to transportation and fossil fuels. Meat, dairy, and eggs provide more essential amino acids to our body than plant protein. There are people out there that mistreat livestock. But theres MORE that treat their animals with respect. And guess what? Theres people out there that mistreat their pets. Does that mean no one should have dogs and cats? Visit farms. Talk to farmers. Educate yourself. Dont believe everything you see/read online. #eatmoremeat

04.01.2022 Each of reporters have a few stories that they never forget. Heres Kerry Staights favourite story. #LandlineFavourites "I love telling stories about resilie...nt farming families. One that stands out is To Hell and Back in 2017. This is a follow-up to a piece I did five years earlier about a property on the Hay Plain with the attention grabbing name Hells Gate and the family farming empire behind it. What makes this two-part story special is the relationship between Gordon and Verna Paterson, who built up the business, and their young grandson James, who put up his hand to take over after a family tragedy."

04.01.2022 Interesting developments - biological makes sense where possible

02.01.2022 You should own land to be able to own water...

01.01.2022 well done Bill - a great mentor https://www.stockjournal.com.au//bills-long-commitment-to/

01.01.2022 The Age Of Allis Chalmers

01.01.2022 Finally this can be put to rest