Sustainability
John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Poultry, Sustainability,

" When Jackie Augustine opens a chicken coop door one brisk spring morning in upstate New York, the hens bolt out like windup toys. Still, as their faint barnyard scent testifies, they aren’t battery-powered but very much alive. These are “solar chickens.” At this local community egg cooperative, Geneva Peeps, the birds live with solar power all around them. Their hen house is built under photovoltaic panels, and even outside, they’ll spend time underneath them, protected from sun, rain and hawks. Geneva Peeps is one of the many experiments in agrivoltaics, or co-locating solar panels and food production, being undertaken around the United States. The practice had already been happening in countries like the United Kingdom and Uruguay. Over the past few years, more pilot programs have been set up in states like New York. And with photovoltaic capacity projected to more than double (again) over the next five years, some developers are exploring whether agrivoltaics may ease concerns about farmland being given over to solar production."

John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Soil Health, Agriculture Global, Water, Sustainability,

Crops or pastures require soils to capture often erratic and occasionally heavy rain for maximising production. And good capture of rainfall is so often dependent on adequate ground cover.

Take for example recent measures of rainfall capture in pasture mixes at NSW Department of Prima...Read More


John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Soil Health, Forestry, Water, Sustainability,

A tree plantation can add diversification to the farm enterprise, but it's a long term plan, trees planted now may not be ready for milling for a generation or more.

Farmer and tree scientist Rowan Reid said therefore timber won't be the main motivation for farmers to plant trees, but...Read More


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