Innovative trials stimulate commercial adoption Agricultural application of biochar – Western Australian research stimulus and barriers Prior to 2010 very limited research was applied to the agricultural use of biochar in Western Australia. WA cereal growing regions are impacted by dryland sali

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 ra

Mobile Biochar Pyrolysis Unit Demonstration As heard on ABC Country Hour, Euan Beamont, from Energy Farmers Australia, has developed a truck mounted mobile pyrolysis unit that is currently being used in Geraldton to process poultry farm bedding/manure. Euan will demonstrate converting hardwood

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

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.

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