Capturing Carbon: The Quest for Sequestration
Image: Researchers from Eurofins Agroscience Australia (far right and far left) shoe Soil C Quest’s Mick Wettenhall and Guy Webb (centre) how research into inoculums is progressing. Image supplied. A bold new project aims to put the future of food security and climate change firmly in the hands of farmers, through the development of ‘game changing’ […]
The Fight against Flystrike: Proactive Pain Relief Now Available for Sheep
Image: Crutching sheep involves removing some of the skin from the backend of sheep to reduce the chance of flystrike. Crutching1 by cGoodwin is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0. Injectable pain relief is now available for use sheep, but it is too late for the mulesing debate? A newly available injectable pain relief product has […]
Save our River: The Case of The Disappearing Water
Image: The sustainability of the Barwon River is of significant concern given the level of over extraction being carried out by irrigators. Collarenebri by cGoodwin is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0. ABC’s Four Corners programme that aired last month raised serious question around the allocation, monitoring and policing of water allocations within the Murray Darling […]
Turn me on: The value of agtech in a digital age
Image: Agtechnologies including CropX and mOasis present opportunities for irrigators to grow more produce with less water. Turkey Centre Pivot Irrigation System from Alibaba, labelled for reuse. The impact of climate change combined with an increasing global population and a reduction in arable lands is pressuring technology for a solution – how to grow more food […]
Hey big Spender: The rise of agricultural land prices in Australia and beyond
Image: Jackson Land and Cattle was listed for US$175million in 2011. Photo courtesy of Business Insider. The Shire of Cardinia in Victoria is home to the most expensive farmland in Australia, according to a report released earlier this year. The Australian Farmland Values 2016 report shows that land in the area sold for a median price of […]
Possum Parmigiana and Chips: Could Australian native animals be a source of food?
Image: While Kangaroo is often seen on Australian restaurant menus, could other native creatures soon be part of our diet? Braised kangaroo, Swan Valley by Phillip Capper from Wikimedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Could looking at the past offer us a glimpse of what’s to come in the future? That’s a question […]
Profitable Pongamia: High value biofuel from an Australian native
Image: Pongamia Pinnata Seeds from Wikipedia under a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 An American company has adopted an Australian tree with the hope of growing high value crops whilst restoring depleted agricultural lands. The low-maintenance Pongamia tree produces oilseeds that can be processed for biofuel as well as a host of other downstream products. Pongamia trees […]