Certified Regenerative & Sustainable
AgriBusiness Ltd
To enhance soil health, improve nutritional value of pasture & crops, benefit the environment by reducing input waste, improve nutrient efficiency and have an overall positive economic benefit.
Promote world’s best practice, pasture based farming systems with animals naturally grazing in the open, using balanced natural inputs to provide a living healthy soil & sustainable biological ecosystem.
Five Key Regenerative & Sustainable Farming Practices:
1. Pasture & crop biodiversity:
Promote permanent pasture cover of mixed species and limited crop rotation to minimise soil disturbance – provides efficiency from complimentary plant species and more balanced diet for grazing animals.
Growing more diverse pastures and cover crops – e.g. varieties of rye, clover, fescue, chicory, plantain, rape, turnips, maize, sorghum, etc.
Promote greater areas of tree planting for stock shelter, pasture protection and carbon sequestration with existing areas of native trees fenced off for protection and regeneration.
2. Eliminate or decrease tillage:
Reduce soil disturbance through low-till or no-till agricultural practices.
Maintain maximum cover on the soil – green growing cover is most effective.
Maintain permanent pasture policy.
3. Improve efficiency of fertilizer & soil conditioners:
Individual paddock or block soil testing at least every 3 years.
Identifying & addressing imbalance in soil nutrient levels and applying specific fertiliser & nutrients to levels for optimum plant growth & nutrient value.
Measuring & monitoring soil carbon content to ensure carbon component is ideally improved or at least maintained at current levels.
Use of Lime, Gipson, Cattle & Sheep effluent, Chicken Litter, Pig Effluent, compost as a more natural source of nutrient and organic matter.
Farms with animal effluent capture to have zero leakage and significant area for spreading effectively over pasture and crops.
Limit amount of external nitrogen application and apply strategically to improve efficiency and minimise waste.
Optimise soil pH levels for better clover growth as a natural nitrogen & protein source – ideal pH being 6.0 – 6.3. Or at least maintain at current pH levels.
Use of “proven” natural conditioners such as Humates and Folic Acid for soil & plant health.
Use of GPS mapping for accurate measurement of farm boundaries – area of pasture, crop, trees, paddocks, etc.
Use of telemetry technology to provide accurate measurement and monitoring of on-farm systems e.g. water use, effluent spreading, soil moisture levels, weather conditions, fertiliser spreading, etc.
4. Promote soil & effluent microbial activity:
Measure & monitor soil microbial activity through regular soil testing.
Use of new microbe technology to gain maximum benefit from enhancing nutrients in animal effluent.
Promote effluent aeration to stimulate microbes and maximise nutrient gain while enhancing carbon take from the atmosphere, eventually building soil carbon.
Reduce land tillage to reduce sediment runoff, minimise carbon loss and maintain microbial activity.
Use crop stubble & residuals to build soil organic matter in the soil.
Maintain optimum pasture residuals to enhance plant & soil health and ensure plant growth is maximised. Avoid overgrazing.
Follow ethical chemical spraying policy to ensure wellbeing of bees, positive insects and microbes.
5. Use rotational grazing for management of livestock:
Operate proven animal rotational grazing system.
Animal diet to be pasture based – animals grazing direct and limit use of carting feed to animals.
Use of feed pads and standoff areas to minimise soil damage when wet.
Promote closed herd/flock policy to reduce disease risk and provide high quarantine status.