A Plain Perspective

A recent article in The Economist pointed out that the world needs to produce more food in the next 40 years than they did in the previous...

The production of methane gas by ruminant animals is often given as a reason by some people as a reason for avoiding meat to mitigate the p...

We often hear of the disconnect between urban dwellers and the farming community here in Australia and in other parts of the world.   Mos...

Grasslands are areas with few natural trees or shrubs and are dominated be grasses as the name suggests.  These are some of the world’s mos...

Is agriculture different from any other industry?  Is the production of food a more noble endeavour than any other human endeavour? Man...

There are many arguments put forward against livestock farming, none of which have any substance.  One of the arguments against livestock f...

A recent blog by Sam Trethewey on sentimentality in farming certainly got the agricultural twitterverse into a frenzy.  Sam’s basic point w...