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Sustainability: Preserving our natural resources

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To ensure continued food production, we need to ensure natural resources are not depleted. This goal is achieved through sustainable farming practices.

Improve farm practices

Are you continuously improving your farming practices?

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Progress, growth, improvement, development, these are all words that we positively associate with business. I think most people would agree that they want to improve, progress and grow. The big question is, are you actually improving? Are the practices you currently implement contributing to the continuous improvement of your farm?

It's also about the process

It’s also about the process

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Sustainability is more often about the process, than it is about achieving specific goals and then moving on to something different. There is always room for improvement, and opportunity to become more sustainable.

How do farmers benefit from our research?

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Here is a short description of what we do to improve the benefit that farmers derive from our research. There is an example used of a course attended in order to broaden our knowledge.

Watch the Biggs Family tell us why sustainability matters

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“As farmers, we are stewards of the land. It is our responsibility to ensure that as caretakers we treat it with respect and leave it in a better condition for future generations” – Bonnen Biggs, Suiderland Farm

Multispecies pasture

Why diversify your pastures?

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Multi-species pastures have become a prominent topic over the last few years. Why does everyone make such a big deal about it?

Environmental stewardship is an important pillar of agricultural sustainability

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One of the important take away points of the day was that this generation (producers, retailers, consumers) needs to understand and appreciate that they have in their hands the opportunity to ask questions, come up with solutions and create awareness across the world about why stewarding the environment is crucial.

Cattle grazing

Improving feed energy utlisation: Six years of data in the Tsitsikamma

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Energy is imperative to growth and sustenance of all animals, and plays a major role in the production of milk by a dairy cow.

Water use and irrigation

Water use, irrigation and pasture growth on dairy farms: A case study from Oyster Bay

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It is important that all users of fresh water, the agricultural industry being a significant one, are responsible in ensuring the effective and efficient use of the available water.

The SWAN system

What is the SWAN system?

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At Trace & Save we believe in placing integrity to our claims of addressing sustainability on farms. One of the ways we do this is by using the concept of measured agricultural sustainability using the SWAN system.