Sustainable Agriculture with Callum Love and Nick Eyres
Episode description
Today’s guest interviewer is Callum Love, Sustainable Agricultural co-ordinator with the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council (NACC). Callum recently caught up with Nick Eyres who has been an agronomist with Elders for nearly 5 years servicing the Midwest region of WA, mainly around the Geraldton and Mingenew areas. Nick also works closely with NACC and the Yuna Farm Improvement Group (YFIG) in many of their sustainable agriculture projects.
Callum and Nick explore some of the work with legumes in the low rainfall zones that has been recently completed between NACC and YFIG. Nick also shares his experience on his own farm, a 10-hectare property at Greenough, where tests all his new ideas for including legumes in the crop rotation.
Some of the interesting discussion points include:
· Use of serradella to stabilise sandy soils
· Use of legumes to improve the benefits of soil amelioration
· What are the risks in growing alternative legumes?
· What does sustainability really mean?
For more information visit:
Northern Agricultural Catchment Councill (NACC)
The Northern Agricultural Region NRM strategy
Yuna Farm Improvement Group