Soil Carbon Farming in Australia

Soil carbon farming was a topic of discussion at last Thursday’s TFS Seasonal Update. The below links will take you to some of the resources made available by Matt Lieschke on the day. We will load the others as electronic versions come to hand. https://www.farminstitute.org.au/publication/a-landholders-guide-to-participate-in-soil-carbon-farming-in-australia/ https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/321422/A-farmers-guide-to-increasing-Soil-Organic-Carbon-under-pastures.pdf  

NSW DPI Weeds Survey

The NSW Department of Primary Industries is currently looking at a research project which aims to develop an autonomous robot capable of finding and then selectively spraying, target weeds in a pasture. They have asked that we distribute a survey to our members to complete that will help them identify the most problematic pasture weeds […]

Beetles with Benefits

Two team members from the Dung Beetles Ecosystem Engineers team, Dr Russ Barrow and Mr Graeme Heath attended a recent TFS workshop. Their presentation gave us a run down on the history of dung beetles in Australia, their importance and ways that TFS members can become involved in dung beetle monitoring on farm. The presentation […]