Queensland cattle farmers like Adam Coffey are doing everything they can to make their practices more environmentally friendly.
abc.net.au/news/cattle-farmers-take-action-to-stop-climate-change/101803350Cattle farmer Sid Plant's drive to make his farm more climate friendly is inspired by his family.
"Australian farmers, no matter who they are or what they believe, spend most of their life staring at the sky, wondering what it's going to do to them." Sid's herd size varies from zero up to 900. He tries to move his cattle around to different paddocks in order to let grass recover after being grazed — a similar practice to that of fellow farmer Adam Coffey.Adam Coffey, a first-generation farmer, runs a 2,500-hectare cattle farm with his wife Jacynta in Colosseum, a rural town about 465 kilometres north of Brisbane.
"We run a time-controlled grazing enterprise in which we try to mimic the way that ruminant animals used to roam across landscapes," he says. "There are many farmers that we know who wouldn't call themselves regenerative farmers, but this is exactly what they do," she says.
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