People, Planet, Products. There are many headwinds facing global agriculture. Climate change, inflation, the lingering impacts of COVID, breakdown of supply chains, soaring energy prices, changing consumer expectations. It’s a lot to take in. Even more so for the average family farm focusing on producing their crops. How do these growers embrace challenges and find […]
Tag: Agriculture
The future of agriculture is human
For decades we have been telling young people that a job in agriculture was an undesirable thing. It’s dirty, long, gruelling work that doesn’t pay. Young people have been much better off pursuing high paying, competitive jobs in Law, Medicine, heaven forbid… Marketing! Well the proverbial chickens are coming home to roost and we are […]
How do we lose soil?
We lose 5–10kgs of soil for every meal we eat. Every person, every meal, every day. This works out to around 75 billion tonnes of soil lost every year based on numbers from the US Geological Service. At this rate, we have around 60 years of farmable topsoil left. Within our lifetimes, we will have […]
Regenerative Agriculture
Embracing Complexity
In late 2021 the Australian vegetable industry invested significant funds to develop a nationally coordinated, regionally delivered extension program known as VegNET. To design a sustainable extension system for a complex, national industry such as vegetables, significant time was invested. An agricultural innovation systems approach was developed to best support grower outcomes. Development and implementation […]