Mobilise your allies beneath the soil surface!
Soil should be alive at all times, even during periods of frost in winter. This, according to researchers, is the answer to soil health.
In fact, farmers and scientists recently reaffirmed that soil microbes can directly or indirectly help farmers combat the biggest issues they face today. These include environmental changes, biodiversity loss, declining soil health, rising production costs, declining profitability, rising debt and the subsequent risk of losing one’s land due to a loan default.
This was the not-so-hidden message that was conveyed during a farmers’ day hosted by the Highveld Regenerative Conservation Agriculture Study Group in Kinross in collaboration with Asset Research. The latter is a group of scientists focusing on the development of capacity within the field of environmental and natural resource economics, as well as ecological restoration.
Asset Research economist Mary Maluleke, who spoke at the event, said that there was a
