Anthony Bauer of Bauer’s Organic Farms (right), shows Guy Lewington of Mt Sylvia Diatomite, the impact palagonite is having on his new ginger crop in the Lockyer Valley. A trial strip of two rows was spread with compost that included palagonite. DIRECTORS at Mt Sylvia Diatomite are enthused from the encouraging results of a recent palagonite trial in a ginger plot at …. more
The Institute for Agriculture and the Environment research team includes Dr Geoff Slaughter, pictured above, and Professor Julie Cotter. A UNIVERSITY of Southern Queensland (USQ) research team has secured Federal Government funding to examine what makes a farm business successful. The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) funding will go towards the Understanding Australian …. more
WITH the autumn season upon us it is time for farmers to seriously consider whether their traditional fertiliser regimes have really been working for them. Farmers have only recently begun appreciating the integral role of sulphur in their farm’s nutrient makeup. Sulphur is a vitally important component to form amino acids in crops and pastures …. more
The JPH4 – JPH seeders can also be adapted to some tilling machinery to enable working the soil and seeding in one pass. SUPERIOR seeders are now being sourced by Fix Engineering from Jang Automation, a South Korean company. The company is producing roller types that are able to seed from very small seeds to …. more
VINEYARDS use approximately fifty per cent of all agricultural posts in Australia with the majority of pine posts used in agriculture being treated with copper-chromium-arsenic (CCA) timber preservative. For many years CCA was treated as relatively benign and its use was widespread. Most people knew that it should not be burnt, and if it was the …. more
FOR more than 17 years, organic fertiliser company TNN Industries has been going head to head with the chemical fertiliser industry to reduce the amount of chemicals being released into our environment and food chain. Managing Director, Max Hansford, said the company was constantly searching for ways to improve human, soil and animal health. “After 17 …. more
