Agroforestry News

Agroforestry is about farmers growing trees for conservation and profit. For more than 10 years, the Agroforestry News magazine has been providing practical and up-to-date information on all aspects of agroforestry and farm tree growing.

Agroforestry News is owned and managed by a community group representing the interests of farmers who grow trees. The group is incorporated through the Victorian Farmers Federation's Farm Trees and Landcare Association. The views expressed are those of individuals, most of whom grow and manage trees on their own land. There is always plenty of debate about what to grow and how to manage it, about markets for tree productions and services, and about how governments and others can support farmers who want to grow trees to enhance their properties and contribute repairing the land building truly environmentally sustainable rural landscapes.

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RECENT EDITIONS

Number 55: Available Now to subscribers only :

CONTENTS:

- The secret to a happy life - Dr Nigel Strauss , Psychiatrist, about how growing trees is good for the soul
- More on ripping and mounding  
- John Woodley responds: Its a debate about nothing - ripping and mounding is just part of good management
- John Goy responds: For my money it is worth it.
- Rowan reports results on the impact of ripping and mounding on branch size
- Successful establishment: Trevor Booth (CSIRO-ENSIS) presents early results on a national review of establishment methods
- Fertiliser does make a different: Bruce Sonogan present results showing fertiliser responses in eucalypt establishment
- Herbicides: Andrew Lang tells of his experiences overspraying trees with herbicides for summer weed control
- High Pruning: Simon Noble continues the discussion about using machines to high prune eucalypts
- Bell Miners: John Hunter on role of Bell Miners on eucalypt dieback.
- Australian Blackwood: Report on the recent Acacia melanoxylon workshop held in Victoria
- Superior seed of low rainfall eucalypts: Rod Bird and Tim Jackson - results of Spotted Gum and Sugar Gum provenance trials

Number 54: Available Now to subscribers only :

CONTENTS:

Ripping and Mounding Maladies - Rod Bird and Tim Jackson, DPI Victoria
Comprehensive research into site preparation in Queensland - Geoff Dickinson and other Qld researchers
Many sites don't need the full rip and mound - Andrew Lang, Victoria
Letters on ripping and mounding from Mark Stewart (Vic), Ray Fremlin (WA), Ian McArthur (ACT), David Wettenhall (WA) and others
Babes in the Woods - Holbrook tree growers Malcolm and Barbara Ross
Cultivation risks tree form - Rowan Reid and James Bell measure stem form
Profile of John and Jan Weatherstone, NSW
Longstem tubestock - Bill Hicks, NSW
Thinking beyond 6 metres - really high pruning with Ray and Bianchi Joy in Victoria
The attractiveness and value of trees - Margaret McKenzie (SA)
Update on growing cypresses from the NZ TreeGrower

Some earlier issues available as downloads