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25 APR 13 THE AGE - Golden soil needs the female touch

We head up country with the roof open. Sunshine dapples through poplar and stringybark as we bowl along, singing our hearts out to Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan... Native grasses have long been despised as nutritionally inferior. In fact, says Stipa, the Native Grasses Association, they offer excellent nutrition. The also give year-round cover (since growing seasons vary), drought resistance, microbe sanctuary, carbon sequestration, soil stabilisation, poison-leaching and water retention.
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20 APR 13 THE BORDER MAIL - Landscape ‘first priority’

There is a lot more work to do to reconnect urban Australia with agriculture, former governor-general Michael Jeffery told the 2013 Annual Soil Forum in Wodonga this week.
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11 APR 13 THE AUSTRALIAN - Out of Africa comes healthy way of farming

If it was good enough for the wildlife teeming on Africa's Serengeti plain, then fifth-generation farmer Tim Wright reasoned a back-to-basics approach might work for him on NSW's northern tablelands.
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10 APR 13 ABC RADIO NATIONAL - Australia could feed one billion by 2050: Jeffery

A United Nations report released overnight reveals that the world is losing up to five per cent of global agricultural production due to land degradation. But Australia could help solve this problem and be feeding one billion people by 2050 as part of it's contribution to global food security.
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01 APR 13 ABC NEWS ENVIRONMENT QUARTER - A farming oasis in northern NSW turns heads

The ABC's environment reporter Sarah Clarke looks at the latest green issues and stories affecting the planet. This episode includes a story on regenerative farmer and Soils for Life case study participant, Tim Wright of Lana.
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13 MAR 13 ABC SOUTH EAST SA RADIO - Michael Jeffery on a mission to combat soils degradation

You probably know that Michael Jeffery is a retired Major General and was Australia's Governor General up until 2008, but what you might not know is that he is also interested in soils and sustainability.
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08 MAR 13 THE BORDER WATCH - Biological push: Sustainable farming on show

Environmental organisation Soils for Life has invited South East farmers to take part in the group's annual demonstration day next week. Download to read more...

03 MAR 13 WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN - Hard graft makes land bear fruit

People told John Ive he was crazy when in 1980 he bought 250ha of degraded land at Murrumbateman, near Canberra. "The words that were used to describe the land were 'basket case'," the 68-year-old said.
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27 FEB 13 ALJAZEERA - Pasture cropping: A regenerative solution from Down Under

Since the late 1990s, Australian farmer Colin Seis has been successfully planting a cereal crop into perennial pasture on his sheep farm during the dormant period using no-till drilling, a method that uses a drill to sow seeds instead of the traditional plow. He calls it pasture cropping... Read more...

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