REMEMBER the stories about how the Murray Darling Basin, the food bowl of Australia, was going to be lost to salt? Headline after media headline told of imminent ruin from rising water tables bring salt. The Riverina, a once rich farming area … [Read more...] about Aussie Farmers: Not Beaten by Salt, But Drought and Government Policies
Food & Farming
Don’t Ditch Cattle Yet, Science Isn’t ‘Settled’
HOW many times have you heard it said, the science is settled, we will have catastrophic global warming unless we change our ways and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions? While the “science might be settled” it does not seem to be well … [Read more...] about Don’t Ditch Cattle Yet, Science Isn’t ‘Settled’
Coal for Breakfast?
Starting with an average grain yield of 3.75 tonnes hectare and a realistic average price of $220 per tonne, a Haystack farm will produce $497,775 from each hectare in a hundred years, which is the life expectancy of a child born today. This … [Read more...] about Coal for Breakfast?
Seed Hunter: Great Online Movie
I hope you all had the opportunity to watch Seed Hunter last week, if not the documentary is now able to be downloaded online at: http://seedhunter.com/community.html?showresults=1. Kind regards, Nadja … [Read more...] about Seed Hunter: Great Online Movie
European Union to Ban Lots of Pesticides
The European Union (EU) is developing a new ‘Thematic Strategy for Pesticides’ including a proposed new ‘Sustainable Use Directive’. According to the UK's Pesticide Safety Directorate the new regulation could outlaw up to 85 percent of pesticides … [Read more...] about European Union to Ban Lots of Pesticides
Farmland to Coal Mine: Darling Downs, Queensland
On 1st Sep 2008 the Queensland Government issued a Mineral Development Licence for coal to the wholly Queensland Government owned Tarong Energy Corporation over the iconic Haystack Road farmlands. Harvest has begun on the Haystack Plain which has … [Read more...] about Farmland to Coal Mine: Darling Downs, Queensland
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
