Photo from the 60s of kids sitting in corn husks with old vehicles from the 40sIn 1983, one of the radio documentaries I produced was on the rise of organic agriculture in Australia, it’s costs and benefits.
At the time organic farming was thought of as very much ‘hippie farming’ at a time when scientific and business professionalism was the catch cry for Australian agriculture.
My first stretch of work in the Territory was in 1982 when I was a Rural Reporter filling behind the incumbent on extended leave.
This interview is with Peter Fogarty a researcher with the Conservation Commission who had ben studying the damage caused by free roaming feral buffaloes in the fragile wetlands. (more…)
