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>Bushfire policy, do we need more than an ounce of prevention ?
There is too much focus in Australia on bushfire fighting and not enough on bushfire prevention, according to experts who have contributed papers to the latest edition of the Farm Policy Journal published by the Australian Farm Institute.
>Bookings for the Agriculture and Greenhouse Emissions Conference open now!
Australia’s leading conference addressing agriculture and climate change science and policies is now open for registrations. If you would like more information, it's available here.
If you’ve ever thought ‘I could do a better job if I was Minister for Agriculture’, then this is your chance. We give you the opportunity to tell the world what you think Australia’s agriculture policies should look like – and win $500!
>Agriculture, Greenhouse and Emissions Conference 2010 (29/1/10)
Australia’s leading conference addressing agriculture and climate change science and policies is being held on 18 and 19 May 2010, at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
>Agriculture, Greenhouse & Emissions Trading conference, 2009, Proceedings (21/12/09)
The 2009 AGET conference gathered agriculture sector leaders, policy-makers and scientists on the 6th & 7th of May 2009 to discuss the role of agriculture in Australian climate change policies. The proceedings of that conference have now been published.
>November Farm Policy Journal, vol 6, no 4 (07/12/09)
Does carbon labelling inform or confuse consumers ? Some perspectives on ecomarketing for the Agriculture industry in Australia. 'It's easy being labelled, but not easy being green'.
>Research Report- Access to essential services in rural and urban Australia (30/11/09)
Newly released research has for the first time quantified the extra costs faced by Australia’s non-metropolitan residents in accessing essential government services.
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Final report and case studies, FarmGAS calculator
A final report of the FarmGAS
calculator projet has now been released. The report contains the results of
a number of case-study farm businesses.
“The FarmGAS Calculator has been developed to enable farm business managers to firstly gain a better understanding of the greenhouse emission implications of their farm management decisions, and also to provide a tool that will enable farmers to test a range of different farm management scenarios to gain a better understanding of potential future options.” says Mick Keogh Executive Director of the Australian Farm Institute.
This new release provides the results arising from a number of case-study farm businesses that have been analysed using the FarmGAS calculator, the first comprehensive, multiple-enterprise, greenhouse emissions calculator that has been developped for Australian farm businesses. The case studies detailed in the report include:
- Case Study 1: Dryland, mixed (cattle – weaners, sheep – wethers, winter crops)
- Case Study 2: Dryland, livestock only (cattle – weaners, sheep – prime lambs)
- Case Study 3: Dryland cropping only, crop areas = winter 60% summer 40%
- Case Study 4: Feedlot – Steers
- Case Study 5: Intensive piggery
- Case Study 7: Irrigated cropping (Queensland)
- Case Study 8: Beef production – Northern Territory
The report is accessible free-of-charge here.