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Lorraine Gordon, Southern Cross University's director of strategic projects at the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance and Farming Together Program, has provided us with a wonderfully clear path.
The four lead points are: Think holistically, have an understanding of complex adaptive systems, be comfortable in ambiguity, and have the capacity for continuous, transformative learning.
I admit that I have not a clue what she is talking about.
Students are studying this rubbish on the way to obtaining a degree - to what end is concerning.
Also in her blurb, Ms Gordon said there was no way of measuring the impacts of regenerative agriculture.
This movement is purely a gravy train with multiple snouts in a trough.
The jingoism will go over the head of a large part of the audience it aims to attract.
The majority of productive farmers are already using a mix of the management practices that they are being asked to ditch in favour of snake oil.
Take for instance: "Regenerative agricultural principles propel us into new ways of doing agriculture.
"Practices such as maintaining ground-cover are the result of deeper shifts in thinking, not principles in themselves."
Downright rubbish. How about minimum tillage, stubble retention and direct drilling and extensive use of GPS tracking and mapping?
An aside would be that dairy farmer grass and crop production systems are totally based on rotational grazing.
BRUMBY BLUES
The emotion around the removal of feral horses from alpine areas has abated, but the NSW and Victorian governments seem headed down different paths.
In Victoria, the government claims that aerial shooting is now the preferred option to control burgeoning numbers.
Efforts to rehome the large number of horses have not been successful.
In NSW, hundreds of feral horses were released into the Kosciuszko National Park over the past year, sparking criticism that government policy is undoing the benefits of programs to rein in the habitat-damaging animals.
It has been claimed that one-third of the feral horses trapped in the park since July have been released back into the wild by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
In that time, 484 horses were removed and rehomed and 279 mostly mares and foals were released from traps and allowed to continue breeding.
If most of the horses removed were colts and stallions, this could affect ongoing breeding.
The issue has pitted a strong the environmental lobby against animal protectionists.