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“Carbon Tax” – opening up opportunities in Australian agriculture.

In May, the Federal Government announced the successful applicants of  “Filling the Research Gap” and “Action on the Ground“,  round one funding, direct beneficiaries of the Clean Energy Futures policy.

I think its great to see the variety of projects and it’s the first real step to getting farmers and the rest of Australia away from their reliance of fossil based products and toward more sustainable agricultural ...

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Categories: Carbon Farming Futures, Carbon Farming Initiative, Peak Oil

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Carbon Price – Insuring our future

Whatever side of the political fence you sit the federal government’s announcement yesterday does have some good outcomes for rural communities.

The Carbon Faming Initiative will pay farmers who change the way they farm and use practices that lock up carbon in trees or in the soil and who reduce their on farm emissions.

Carbon Farming Futures Program ($429 million over the first six years) will help farmers and landholders benefit from carbon farming by ...

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Categories: Biodiversity, Bioenergy, Blog, Carbon Farming Futures, Carbon Farming Initiative, Carbon tax, Peak Oil

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