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If you RTFA you'll see that these grasses grow well on degraded land. Wheat, barley etc does not. We have a lot of degraded land. If you read Pascoe's book, yo
by shermozle 6y ago
If you RTFA you'll see that these grasses grow well on degraded land. Wheat, barley etc does not. We have a lot of degraded land.
If you read Pascoe's book, you'll see that one of the reasons the indigenous agriculture disappeared so quickly is that stock sought out the delicious native grasses and destroyed them. Delicious means market opportunity.
- natch 6y agostock = livestock for those who don’t know Australian.
- danieltillett 6y agoYes but they are not productive. The yield of grain is not commercially viable. It is much better to use these lands for grazing stock - in an ideal world native stock. I have my doubts as to the existence of indigenous agricultural - this doesn’t mean that aboriginal people didn’t do things that had some similarities to farming, just that they never stepped over the line and became farmers.
- prawn 6y agoI think I get Daniel's point. I'm inclined to favour seeing that outback land turned over to something other than grazing, but what? It's remote, dry, broad, etc. Those grazing animals are essentially autonomous bots harvesting disparate clumps of feed - like a hay that bales itself (as meat).