In the early 1980s, a massive drought known as the "Great Dry" swept through eastern Australia. Massy's traditional farming practices had allowed his sheep to intensely graze the landscape, stripping ...
And now they have the data to prove it. Their farm is all about the numbers, Dickens says: they have installed Australian-made sensors across the farm that monitor how much each cow is eating ...
More than a century of agricultural activity has degraded parts of the landscape. But once the sheep farmers left ... with the United Nations warning immediate action is needed to avoid ecosystem ...
Australian dairy farmers know their industry produces 12.5% of the national agriculture sector’s greenhouse gas emissions, and about 2% of the country’s total emissions, and are keenly ...