OECD-FAO food outlook to 2022
Food production in developing countries is going to increase significantly to help meet domestic demand and export countries will need to compete more strongly in their food value-added offers.
Read MoreFood production in developing countries is going to increase significantly to help meet domestic demand and export countries will need to compete more strongly in their food value-added offers.
Read MoreDevastating at the time, the major floods of 2011 have since brought a vital benefit by recharging Australia’s depleted reserves
Read MoreComment by Patrick Francis In a recent blog the Australian Farm Institute’s director Mick Keogh provided a counter explanations for
Read MoreBy Carol Richards In his book, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan advises “don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise
Read MoreThe results of over-reliance on glyphosate in genetically modified (GM) crops in the US has driven home the unavoidable truth
Read MoreCorrelations demonstrated between soil fertility, pasture species, carbon flows, biology and rainfall By Patrick Francis The Holbrook Landcare Group’s alternative
Read MoreThe emerging embodiment of malnutrition By Lauren Power The World Health Organization (WHO) defines obesity as ‘a condition of abnormal
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis One of sheep farming’s long held traditions, tail docking may soon be an optional rather than a
Read MoreAt the recent United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 2nd Scientific Conference in Germany scientists from around the world
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis The Australian wool textile supply chain is in a dilemma over the presence of declared non mulesed
Read MoreBy Don Comis A sticky protein seems to be the unsung hero of soil carbon storage. Until its discovery in
Read MoreAt Moffitts Farm we are trialing collars as a more welfare orientated and long-term solution to breeding ewe identification.
Read MoreThe ultimate no stress lawn mower sheep are suitable for larger yards, lane ways and storage areas such as wood and equipment yards.
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis The Binalong Landcare Group and NSW DPI alternative fertiliser trial was professionally set up, monitored and analysed
Read MoreMoffitts Farm first thunderstorm rain for the summer happened over 36 hours on 26 to 28 February. A total of 67 mm fell in two torrential downpours. Prior to this fall summer rain totaled 15 mm in December, 2 mm in January and 16 mm in February.
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis Dr David Smith is the quintessential agricultural scientist. Now retired, Smith has been at the forefront of
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis In October 2012 the Prime Minister announced that Major General (retired) Michael Jeffery is Australia’s first Advocate
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis While it is fashionable for most scientists, columnists and politicians to support the contention that the world’s
Read More– but outlook for higher beef consumption subdued By Lester R. Brown More than a quarter of all the meat
Read MoreBy John Boulter According to the World Bank, China’s population in 2011 was 1.34 billion. This is expected to grow
Read MoreAqua Softner Long standing farm inventor Barry Bennett Barooga Victoria, has made modifications to his Aqua Softner pump outlet
Read MoreBy Cindy Benjamin Together the pig and poultry industries produce more organic by-product than beef feedlotting in Australia. The composition
Read MoreBy Cindy Benjamin There has been an explosion in the amount of composted animal manure being spread on cropping and
Read MoreBy James Nason Southern Queensland landholders Rory and Kathy Frost have turned a long-term claypan into productive land that
Read MoreIn 2006 Dr Maarten Stapper presented his vision for the development of soil health, fertility and food quality to
Read MoreUS data is demonstrating that soil organic matter mineralisation plus biomass respiration can contribute significant amounts of plant available nutrients
Read MoreBy Alan Lauder Given that the bulk of the “improvement” in production comes from increasing labile (short term) soil carbon
Read MoreIn chapter two of the Soil Biology Primer released on the web by the USDA, Dr Elaine Ingham reviews the
Read MoreThe “comfortable farming” program on Moffitts Farm is coping well with the extended dry season and high temperatures through summer 2012/13.
Read MoreThe Australian newspaper editorial of January 15, 2013 continues the highly simplistic thinking being used by pro-GM companies and supporters.
Read MoreThe number of initiatives that protect and restore forests, wetlands, and other water-rich ecosystems has nearly doubled in just
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis The weather on New Year’s day 2013 continued what has been rare over the last decade –
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis One of the inconsistencies often found in the federal government’s policy development associated with agriculture, food processing
Read MoreReview by Patrick Francis It has been a long time coming, but finally a department of primary industries has taken
Read MoreReview by Patrick Francis The book “Food Shock” by Dianne Loughnan has a compelling secondary title “the truth about what
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis There are plenty of claims made about the potential benefits of GM crop varieties but their unsubstantiated nature
Read MoreFarm consultant Ken Sharpe has been researching the impacts of soil organic matter (SOM) on cereal yields for the past
Read MoreBy Patrick Francis Australian Wool Innovations and Meat & Livestock Australia’s recent announcement of three projects to investigate phosphorus fertiliser
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