Ethical sustainable agriculture: Who sets the parametres

By Bob Freebairn
January 1 2018 - 12:00pm
Excellent winter legume pastures growing on light nutrient deficient acid soil country where careful choices were used prior to sowing.
Excellent winter legume pastures growing on light nutrient deficient acid soil country where careful choices were used prior to sowing.

Farmers increasingly are subjected to various heads of companies, pressure groups, media and others demanding we must produce our food and fibre “ethically”, “sustainably” and various other buzz word that have connotations of grandeur and purity. Commonly these people/groups, including city based multi-national company heads, have no idea of what they are talking about but they may aim to direct our way of farming via their authority.

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