Keeping Communities on the Land - An Earth Saving Evolution

All around the world agricultural soils are crashing in production. The cost of oil-based fertilizers has risen and many farmers have found they are no longer work as effectively as they did. Underlying long-term soil health has been seriously depleted by constant chemical inputs and intensive farming practices. In Queensland Australia farmers have found their land has gradually fallen in productivity, with poor soil health and low crop yields problems exacerbated by increasingly unstable weather patterns in the region. Their farms are no longer profitable, their children are leaving the land to make a better living in the cities and many are working well into their retirement years. Microbial fertilizers (MBT) and farming practices are helping make farming in Queensland more economically and environmentally viable. By improving soil health, soil carbon levels and plant vigour farms are better able to withstand unstable weather patterns and consistently produce high value crops. Easier soil tilling and crop harvesting means that fuel inputs and wear and tear on machinery are lower and the amount of chemical fertilizers needed has been dramatically reduced. MBT is rebuilding soil health and building greater resilience and stability into the whole farming process. Healthier soils and healthier farms now promise the next generation a much brighter future on the land.

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Science & Technology

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• Sustainable
• farming
• agriculture
• Environmental
• Environmentally
• aware
• Farming
• economics
• Economically
• viable
• Biological
• Microbial
• Ecological
• community