Where livestock are run regularly there is regular supply of dung. Nature provides dung beetles to bury the dung underground. Provided no insecticides are applied to the animals or soil the DBs thrive. If Biochar (BC) is given to cattle at a rate of 300gm/cow/day or to other herbivores at pro rat

In the grainbelt livestock have to be returned to help restore the carbon cycle. Millions of tonnes of CO2 are released every year as stubble windrows are burnt to control weeds and entire paddocks are burnt to try to mitigate frost. These practices have to stop. If the stubble windrows were pyro

This is the start of the whole carbon farming story which is only just beginning in Australia. It is known variously as Organic, Biological or Regenerative Farming (the preferred name). RF, under the guise of cover cropping, has been going for 20 years in the US and Canada. Although not yet widel

Another new use for BC with resultant carbon sequestration is the incorporation of 4t of BC/ha under new plantings of avocado trees and replanting of fruit trees generally. Trials show tree growth is doubled. Reports are adoption rates are high.

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