Seminar on Soil Carbon and Pasture Cropping

PRESS RELEASE: SEMINAR ON SOIL CARBON AND PASTURE CROPPING
To be held at Glenormiston College on Thursday 22 April from 10 am till 3.30 pm
Entry Free, with a free lunch, but bookings essential for catering purposes:

The speakers at the Soil Seminar will be Dr. Christine Jones and Colin Seis, the pasture cropping expert.

Dr. Christine Jones has led the way on Soil Carbon Sequestration. This is really exciting science, as farmers will need this knowledge in the near future. We are facing a time when fertilizers derived from fossil fuels will be much more expensive. We will need the science of soil carbon sequestration in order to build up soil fertility and water holding capacity. At some time in the near future we may also need to be able to offset penalties for animals that emit greenhouse gases. Raising the carbon in soils and taking it from the atmosphere could help reduce the greenhouse effect. This would not only benefit the planet, but also could benefit farmers by allowing them to use the soil as a carbon offset.

Colin Seis is the leading exponent of pasture cropping: Pasture cropping is the combining of cropping and grazing into one land management system where each one benefits the other. The potential for profit and environmental health in being able to do this is enormous and a lot of landholders in many regions of Australia are showing this to be the case.

Please contact me if you need further information.
Cheers,
Gillian Blair tel: 55 676 273