Growing Plants without Gravity
Whilst flicking through the news pages of National Geographic’s website, I found this really interesting article about growing plants without gravity. In 2010 researchers sent Arabidopsis thaliana seeds to the…
Bees and Agriculture
Continuing on with the agricultural theme from my last post, today I would like to look at the article “Modern agriculture is stressing honeybees: let’s go native” written by Manu…
Native vegetation: a tool for pest management
Recent research has found that remnant native vegetation could be a useful tool against insect pests in grain crops. A nationally coordinated project supported by the Grains Research and Development…
Introducing Tiffany
Hello, my name is Tiffany Bennett and I am the newest member to join the Ecoedge team. Now a little bit about myself, I grew up in Norseman on the…
Turning mountains of manure into money
Huge amounts of manure and huge electricity bills are two never ending problems that livestock farmers have to deal with. With the introduction of carbon tax and concerns about global…
