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Приєднався 18 лют 2016
Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Program. Weeds As Indicators.
What story are your weeds telling you?
Kim Deans from Reinventing Agriculture was the presenter for this webinar.
Each year in Australia billions of dollars is spent on herbicides to control weeds. With herbicide rates and costs of weed control continuing to increase every year, implementing a more integrated, holistic approach to weed management can bring us several benefits financially, ecologically and with regards to human health.
In this webinar Kim looked at a fresh perspective on plants we call weeds, exploring the reasons they grow, the story they tell us about soil and ecosystem health, and some consideration for alternative management strategies that can help to reduce our reliance on herbicides.
This webinar is supported by the ACT Government through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Program.
Kim Deans from Reinventing Agriculture was the presenter for this webinar.
Each year in Australia billions of dollars is spent on herbicides to control weeds. With herbicide rates and costs of weed control continuing to increase every year, implementing a more integrated, holistic approach to weed management can bring us several benefits financially, ecologically and with regards to human health.
In this webinar Kim looked at a fresh perspective on plants we call weeds, exploring the reasons they grow, the story they tell us about soil and ecosystem health, and some consideration for alternative management strategies that can help to reduce our reliance on herbicides.
This webinar is supported by the ACT Government through funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Program.
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Planning For Success With Multispecies Pasture Plantings - With Kim Deans
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Planning for Success with Multispecies Pasture Plantings with Kim Deans from Reinventing Agriculture. Growing numbers of farmers are incorporating multispecies plantings in their crop rotations and pasture improvement programs. Multispecies plantings can be a powerful tool to regenerate soils, reboot water cycles and introduce diversity, however they are not always the best answer for every sit...
David Marsh shares His Resilient Farming Journey With ACT & NSW Farmers
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ACT and NSW farmers visit "Allendale" near Boorowa NSW. David Marsh a now cattle farmer from Boorowa started his farming journey when he purchased "Allendale" a 815ha property in 1966. Like most proud graziers David managed the farm with the standard conventional approach, having a largely economic relationship with the land and applying all the latest agronomy technics to lift yields. However ...
Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Proactive Drought Management For Resilience Webinar 4
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This final webinar in a series four dug deep into the financial numbers of running a successful agricultural enterprise. Whether you’re running a commercial operation or a lifestyle block, the numbers need to stack up. Specifically looking at business decisions during times of variability! The discussions covereds: • Simple and effective gross margin analysis • Cost of not acting during stressf...
Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Proactive Drought Management For Resilience Webinar 3
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Production was the theme for the third webinar in a series of four about proactive management for drought. To be an effective primary producer, we need to be doing just that - Producing. Our production systems need to be performing optimally for our agribusiness to work. This webinar looked at: • Nutrition considerations - what animals need to perform • Classes of animals and their stocking rat...
Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Proactive Drought Management For Resilience Webinar 2
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This webinar is the second in a four-part series on Proactive Management For Drought Resilience delivered by RCS for the ACT and surrounding NSW region farmers. The series provides an overview of the key areas to consider when planning for and managing people, land, production systems and business in variable climatic and economic conditions. Each 90 minute webinar introduces a topic and the pr...
ACT Environmental Grants - Putting Together A Grants Application
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A short video by Frank Garofalow, CEO of ACT Natural Resource Management (NRM), with some tips about how to put together an Environmental Grants Program application. Every year the ACT Environmental Grants program supports community projects that address environmental issues the community are concerned about, helps restore and conserve natural places that are special to the community, and engag...
Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Proactive Drought Management For Resilience Webinar 1
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This webinar is the first in a four part series on Proactive Management For Drought Resilience delivered by RCS for ACT and surrounding NSW region. This series provides an overview of the key areas to consider when planning for and managing people, land, production systems and business in variable climatic and economic conditions. Each 90 minute webinar will introduce a topic and the principles...
Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience My Climate View Tool Webinar
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My Climate View is a free digital product that provides farmers, advisors and land managers with past climate data, seasonal forecast and future climate projections at a 5 - square-kilometre resolution right across Australia to help understand what the future climate might look like for their commodity and location. Developed by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO as part of the Climate Service...
Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Program. Agri-Innovation and Agritourism in the ACT
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The $5 billion Future Drought Fund has been established by the Australian Government to help Australian farmers and communities become more prepared for, and resilient to, the impacts of drought. ACT Natural Resource Management in the ACT Government secured funding under the Future Drought Fund to develop and deliver the Farm Business Resilience Programs for the ACT farming community. This prog...
Webinar recording- Farm Business Planning and Sustainability Considerations with Carmel Onions
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This is a recording of the ACT NRM Farm Business Resilience Webinar with Carmel Onion, National Director Agribusiness Commonwealth Bank, on 14 July 2023. Farm Business Planning and Sustainability Considerations- Carmel discusses trends impacting ag from a banking and finance perspective. About Carmel Onions Carmel is the National Director Agribusiness at the Commonwealth Bank. Carmel’s role sup...
Constructing and managing bed level crossings on farms
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Learn how to construct a farm bed level crossing and what to consider when deciding whether it is a good option for stream crossings on your property. Peter Fogarty, Soil Knowledge Network and Ashley Bolton, NSW Soil Conservation Service take you through the design and construction of bed level crossings, using the example of construction of a bed level crossing on a farm south of Canberra. The...
Resilient farming in a changing climate- “Listening across Time”
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A short film by Richard Snashall with artist Alexander Boynes and Regenerative farmer Harry Watson providing a background into the art work - “Listening across Time”. “Listening across Time”, is work by local artist Alexander Boynes and is part of the Earth Canvas program linking artists and regenerative farmers supported by the Australian Governments National Landcare Program through ACT NRM R...
Build it and they will come: Bird community responses to woodland restoration plantings
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An ACT NRM webinar recording with Dr Martin Henery, Dr Caroline Wilson and Dr Angie Haslem discussing bird responses to woodland restoration. The Protecting and Connecting Endangered Woodlands project has successfully completed over 400 ha of revegetation in 5 years across the ACT. The project prioritised revegetating in areas of importance for woodland bird diversity or where connectivity was ...
Protecting and Connecting Endangered Woodlands in the ACT
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Protecting and Connecting Endangered Woodlands in the ACT
ACT NRM Farm Business Resilience Series, webinar with Kim Deans- Rainfall efficiency on farms
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ACT NRM Farm Business Resilience Series, webinar with Kim Deans- Rainfall efficiency on farms
TWYLLO FLOWER FARM - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching Program
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TWYLLO FLOWER FARM - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching Program
CYPRESS SPRINGS - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching Program
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CYPRESS SPRINGS - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching Program
RIVERVIEW and MILAPARU FARMS - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching program
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RIVERVIEW and MILAPARU FARMS - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching program
AMBERLY FARM - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching Program
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AMBERLY FARM - Future Drought Fund - Farm Business Resilience Coaching Program
ACT GRAZING GROUP VISIT TO CROOKWELL REGENERATIVE FARMS
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ACT GRAZING GROUP VISIT TO CROOKWELL REGENERATIVE FARMS
NEW FARM NEXT DOOR Regenerating farmscapes forum
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NEW FARM NEXT DOOR Regenerating farmscapes forum
Resilient farming in a changing climate- Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change, Prof. Mark Howden
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Resilient farming in a changing climate- Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change, Prof. Mark Howden
Enhancing farm dams for drought resilience, productivity and biodiversity across the ACT
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Enhancing farm dams for drought resilience, productivity and biodiversity across the ACT
Managing farm dams to reduce carbon emissions ,improving biodiversity & water security
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Managing farm dams to reduce carbon emissions ,improving biodiversity & water security
Resilient farming in a changing climate- Understanding the LOOC-C tool with Peter Fitch CSIRO
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Resilient farming in a changing climate- Understanding the LOOC-C tool with Peter Fitch CSIRO
Resilient Farming in a Changing Climate- A Carbon Neutral Future (CN30)
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Resilient Farming in a Changing Climate- A Carbon Neutral Future (CN30)
Resilient Farming in a changing climate -Climate tools for agriculture with Mike Funnell
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Resilient Farming in a changing climate -Climate tools for agriculture with Mike Funnell
ACT NRM Resilient Farms Webinar Series - Our regenerative journey with Sam Trethewey
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ACT NRM Resilient Farms Webinar Series - Our regenerative journey with Sam Trethewey
ACT NRM Farm Business Resilience Webinar Series - 3 - Farm Succession Planning with Jess Cavanagh
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ACT NRM Farm Business Resilience Webinar Series - 3 - Farm Succession Planning with Jess Cavanagh
Thank you so much for posting this. Thank you Kim Deans. I am glad the idea of plant succession will soon flourish throughout Australia. You might watch a documentary produced through our PBS in the US: a Nova special called Mt St Helens: Back from the Dead. You can probably find it on youtube. It tells the story of plant succession after that volcano erupted. A small rodent and the seeds of a lupin (a legume) play a key role: plant/animal symbiosis. Our choicest plants are a only weeds that our ancestors helped along, finding some value in them. For instance, dandelion was and is again becoming favored as a proper green. My takeaway from my look into this was to plant legumes inoculated with rhizobia under conditions that establish that bacteria, so that subsequent plantings of legume grow in symbiosis without further inoculation, provided the soil is moist enough. This will allow legume cover crops to grow in low-nitrogen conditions (nitrogen, as you know, is the limiting macronutrient). It is important to note that legumes will not establish symbiosis with rhizobia if nitrogen is added as fertilizer. It is also important to mow the legume cover tops prior to seed setting, as the nitrogen stored in the root nodules will then stay in the soil for subsequent crops. And never take any plant matter out of your garden that you aren't going to eat. Compost it! And don't turn or double dig your soil. And companion plant as much as possible. Another good source might be a book by John Beeby titled Test Your Soil with Plants! Forgive my rant, but I just want your message about succession to gain purchase. I also want to share the value of legumes in establishing and maintaining soil health, and minimizing use of nitrogen as an amendment.
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where can we find the spreadsheet ?
Water in north east corner of a land was the vaastu principle of farm dam and natural rain water retention structures.
Wouldn't it make sense to reestablish the ponds that occurred naturally along the drainage?
Well having that Bloke onto your property, threw a wrench into the fan. Kinda like shot you in your foot, for attempting to do good for your cattle. I'm guessing you will have to put a well onto the property, to pump water out of the ground now. In the droughts, cattle can smell water very easily, so you may have to keep them cow far away from your ponds. More mess than it's worth. So it seems.
As Australian's we have a bad tendency to over clear land, and especially along water courses and farmers dams are to small they always build duck ponds not dams, a dam is meant to be 50 or 100 metres long an atleast 20 to 30 metres wide We have had a couple of good years of rain an nobody or the government has built major water infrastructure to protect against the next drought It's time Australia dug hundreds of kilometres of water channels around Australia in each district,make the 200 or 300 metres wide an about 50 to 80 metres deep an do this every were to have adequate water
Looks like a pond, not a dam.
Put a to fence around the pond then plant foiliage inside so that will clear up the drainage
cows and chicken socalled biodiversity😅
Um, technically that’s not a Dam, that’s a SWALE. Come on, are you guy’s college professors, and professionals? Gets the terms correct please.
Actually, it's a pond. And the pond was formed by building a dam
I'm in Canada. But I like the idea of coming up with a sort of template or a "package" of flora/species to "install" into the ecology.
This video gave me hope for the future of our planet!
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Still not better than the approach initiated by the late Peter Andrews
Why can't you integrate these ponds into an Andrews' style landscape?
@@chipthomas4169 Because of the Australian government rules
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Lay tree prunings in the dam for frog egg laying. They have something to cling to.
Thankfully someone is dealing with the obvious. Stop livestock wading into and getting stuck in the dams. Stop evaporation and pollution. Clean the water by fringe planting and ensuring they have an ecosystem The ACT government needs to fix all the public lakes and ponds as well. The state of these is shameful. Fix their ecosystems with appropriate predators and mix of plants and animal life. And predate those @##$%ing carp! Harvest them for a start, they can be good eating or be pet food and fertiliser at worst.
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Use the dam water to grow vegetables in an instant vegetable patch it is a little costly but the watet saving is amazing .
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