Regenerative grazing management
In a society where ‘economies of scale’ has been the buzz phrase for decades, it seems strange that a farmer could be more profitable on a smaller scale.
Yet this is exactly what happened when Hannes Botha, a farmer running a mixed enterprise near Carolina, Mpumalanga, introduced regenerative farming practices on his farm, Fairview.
“I was able to double my farm’s carrying capacity in a single season; it was like buying a second farm,” Botha said during a recent regenerative agriculture webinar.
A few years prior to this journey towards restoration, Botha had tried to implement precision farming. It had cost an arm and a leg, yet had brought very little improvement to his operation. He began researching alternative farming techniques and started
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