‘Dirty’ farming: “There’s no other choice: we have to start giving back”
“The other day,” remarks Henry Hopkins, macadamia production manager at the MTO Group, “I got a message from the farmer across the road to say: what you’ve done in your orchards looks pretty good. That’s nice to hear. Because to me, and the way I was trained, it looks untidy. We were used to everything slashed and clean under the trees before. Now you farm ‘dirty’’
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