Focused on redesigning agriculture so that we increase landscape function and biodiversity while improving farmer well being, & low risk profit while producing increasingly nutrient dense food.
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Re: Protecting the Great Barrier Reef: The effectiveness of emotional appeals
2024-04-10 00:34:08 UTC
Sorry for delay Julie, I am struggling to find an easy way of explaining the difference between what I do and others. I am sure you are familiar with planned grazing, cell grazing, rotational grazing etc. This management has a production focus and is unstable for profit & land health (see ground cover graph attached). We focus on high landscape function and profit. This approach provides a solution to the declining terms of trade, biodiversity decline, over intensification etc. Attached is a grazing preso but also do cropping and multi species cover cropping. We achieve an increase in profit (money at bank) for nearly all that adopt - multiple barriers to adoption. For example majority need to decrease stocking rate, cropping intensity to increase profit. I have found that training, on farm safe to fail trials and 12 months of weekly webinars produces a high success rate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O79s_3f4cWI
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Re: Protecting the Great Barrier Reef: The effectiveness of emotional appeals
2024-04-01 21:44:31 UTC
Hi Julie, I have worked for around 30 years on the symptom of biodiversity loss from "bare ground'', high input agriculture. Behaviour chain is long with many barriers but a few farmers, world wide are implementing "covered soil", low input successfully. This ag is more profitable, resilient, lower risk etc. It does not leak or require nutrients and works for cane and livestock. Happy to discuss further. Regards, Graeme
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