The Australian government’s plan for a Clean Energy Future contains a number of measures aimed at supporting farmers and land managers to provide emissions offsets. The plan consists of a mix of market-based and directly funded actions, covering some of the territory put forward by the Coalition, but on a much larger scale. Farming and [...]

“The soil is the fragile membrane that goes right throughout the world and yet we ignore it, we abuse it and we are rarely conscious of it.” Peter Seggers has dug deep to create one of the nation’s first carbon neutral farms, as RACHAEL MISSTEAR reports.