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Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm a ...
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#37 Increasing tree cover from 3% to 20% for resilience, profit and biodiversity with Jill and Andrew Stewart
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By Dimitri Tsitos & Etienne Compagnon, Dimitri Tsitos, and Etienne Compagnon. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Andrew and Jill Stewart are owners and managers of Yan Yan Gurt West Farm in the Otway Ranges, Southern Victoria, Australia. For the past 30 years, they have taken regenerative agriculture extremely seriously in order to solve problems of soil salinisation, soil erosion, climate change and animal welfare. In order to do so they have planted 23kms of shelterbelts and riparian buffers, connected into a complex ecological mosaic to produce both ecosystem services and a huge variety of new enterprises. Since they started planting trees they have increased tree cover from 3% to 20%, without reducing any of their sheep productivity. Quite the contrary, they have opened up a whole new set of enterprises from saw logs to woody florals. Tune in to find out more about this incredible transition!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01:40 Introduction
08:50 The story of the farm
15:00 Main productions
25:34 Timber production
36:07 Harvest and milling
44:43 Economic decision of harvesting shelter belts
52:36 Do trees increase too much fixed costs?
59:13 Are subsidies necessary to justify economically agroforestry plantations?
01:06:29 Tree - Pasture interaction
01:15:01 Managing weeds when planting young trees
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3KXLsj2qLw&t=306s
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