Farmers are boosting their profits and production – with nature’s help

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Overall, our research challenges the perception that profitable farming and biodiversity can’t go hand in hand. Our research shows investing in natural capital actually stacks up financially. And the more we embrace this view the better off our economy, and environment, will be.

If only more farmers in the region I live in would pay attention.

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Unfortunately, the typical Australian rural person (not even just farmers) are backwards fucking morons

I say this as someone living in regional Australia

I watched cotton farmers destroy the environment, and then whine when they were wiped out by floods and land stripped of nutrients

I watch the hunger for ever-greater profits cause the very animals that make the profit die in the millions

And it’s driven by the owners of the farms, who aren’t even Australian, and they boast of their record profits to the employees who they exploit

I fucking hate them, and I’m working to get out, and hopefully be able to do something to enact change

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I wish you every success. We need people like you.

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welp, not near me, every m2 is either cleared for dairy, popies, potatoes or meat cattle and forestry all over the hills, its a toxic green desert with fertiliser trucks running around and 100s of giant pivot irrigators running all summer to speed grass growth for the over stocked paddocks.

its heavily reliant on diesel and fertiliser.

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I know what you mean. Some farmers in our regional area are starting to come round but overall is much like where you are. There are regional organisations that are educating farmers but it’s a slow process. Where possible we must keep bringing the topic up about the positives with people who are not well informed.

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