EVENT: From dust bowls to food bowls: Australia's conservation farming revolution
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From dust bowls to food bowls: Australia's conservation farming revolution : Brian Carlin Memorial Lecture by Adjunct Professor John Kirkegaard |
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The challenges of global food security
and climate change have re-focussed
public and political attention on
agriculture in Australia.
Images of dusty ploughed fields and
dying sheep and trees have generated
a public perception of an inappropriate
“European” agriculture in Australia
that belies the innovative, efficient and
productive farming systems that have
developed during the last 30 years.
In this talk, Adj/Prof John Kirkegaard
will discuss how Australia’s innovative
farmers now grow a diversity of crops and
pastures without tillage, underpinned by
fundamental and adaptive agricultural
research.
They retain stubble to protect the soil,
and use satellite-guided precision
seeding, spraying and harvesting to
provide highly efficient production with
reduced environmental risk.
Innovation is continuing apace, with
rapid soil and plant sensing to guide
management, better forecasting of weather
and crop yields, and novel physiology and
genetics to provide better crop varieties
to meet the challenges, in the coming
decades, of substantially increasing food
production in environmentally benign
ways.
Register online at ioa.uwa.edu.au/events/register
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