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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1725159" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>The next few months will be interesting to see how much winter grain crops get put in. I think the marginal country where there is greater risk getting a harvest will be back a lot but people will spend what is needed on the better quality land where a harvest is more reliable. I think there will be a big uptake of satellite and drone technology to map out variable rates of fertiliser. With grazing a lot of our northern country where big properties are and big numbers of cattle it is basically zero imputs on the land but they still have to deal with escalating freight costs and labour shortage in processing plants and then lack of refrigerated shipping containers. The smaller blocks to the south have relied on heavy topdressing of "super phosphate" to top up the depleted P & S over many decades which gets the clovers going to fix N for better pasture growth. I think that many will hope that the past history of super fertiliser over many years will tie them over until things become more cost effective. Many are looking at "Regenerative Practices" where if you don't fertilise things will take care of themselves so to speak and then there is "Carbon Farming", all terminolgy that to my thinking goes round and round in circles. I read a column each week in a rural newspaper by a well respected agronomist and research trials that he quotes from colleagues in central NSW say that to get significant carbon/organic matter sequestration you need to be consistent applying your inputs of fertiliser. I think a lot of people like the name regenerative as they think it means stop spending any money on inputs and your paddocks are going to zoom ahead by themselves.</p><p>In my short time (15 years) farming I quickly learnt you never get anything for free. A good season and you will have a lot of weeds to deal with, buffalo fly and along with that Ephemeral Fever (3 Day Sickness), water logging and it goes on.</p><p>I recently joined a Regenerative Agriculture group on facebook and so far have been a bit disappointed, seems to be more of a front for a permaculture group with people sprouting their magic potients etc.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1725159, member: 16453"] The next few months will be interesting to see how much winter grain crops get put in. I think the marginal country where there is greater risk getting a harvest will be back a lot but people will spend what is needed on the better quality land where a harvest is more reliable. I think there will be a big uptake of satellite and drone technology to map out variable rates of fertiliser. With grazing a lot of our northern country where big properties are and big numbers of cattle it is basically zero imputs on the land but they still have to deal with escalating freight costs and labour shortage in processing plants and then lack of refrigerated shipping containers. The smaller blocks to the south have relied on heavy topdressing of "super phosphate" to top up the depleted P & S over many decades which gets the clovers going to fix N for better pasture growth. I think that many will hope that the past history of super fertiliser over many years will tie them over until things become more cost effective. Many are looking at "Regenerative Practices" where if you don't fertilise things will take care of themselves so to speak and then there is "Carbon Farming", all terminolgy that to my thinking goes round and round in circles. I read a column each week in a rural newspaper by a well respected agronomist and research trials that he quotes from colleagues in central NSW say that to get significant carbon/organic matter sequestration you need to be consistent applying your inputs of fertiliser. I think a lot of people like the name regenerative as they think it means stop spending any money on inputs and your paddocks are going to zoom ahead by themselves. In my short time (15 years) farming I quickly learnt you never get anything for free. A good season and you will have a lot of weeds to deal with, buffalo fly and along with that Ephemeral Fever (3 Day Sickness), water logging and it goes on. I recently joined a Regenerative Agriculture group on facebook and so far have been a bit disappointed, seems to be more of a front for a permaculture group with people sprouting their magic potients etc. Ken [/QUOTE]
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