by sandy | Jun 26, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
Tim Rethus is a farmer from Horsham whose family business Rethus Broadacre has run a controlled traffic farming system for more than 20 years. Tim shares with us their machinery configuration, the benefits, and the challenges of CTF. Rethus Broadacre is one of the few...
by sandy | Jun 22, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
In this episode, we chat with ACTFA board members Dr Jeff Tullberg and Dr Dio Antille about the benefits of CTF from a research perspective. Jeff is a an Australian agricultural engineer with broad experience in research, teaching, extension and consulting on...
by sandy | May 29, 2023 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
Ben Beech Farms on a mixed sheep and cropping enterprise located in Frankland River down in the Great Southern of WA, northwest of Albany. Ben is a relative newcomer to CTF and in this episode he tells us about the transition to CTF and the challenges he faced. Ben...
by sandy | Sep 30, 2022 | Smart Farm Audio Workshop
Luke Clark is a partner in a family farming business at Jamestown, in the Mid-North of South Australia. Their cropping enterprise is a full CTF zero till operation, retaining 100% of stubble to achieve constant ground coverage. There is a separate enterprise of a...
by sandy | Apr 5, 2022 | Talking CTF
In this episode we look ahead to the 2022 Soil Amelioration/Controlled Traffic Farming Conference on August 3-4 in Perth. Dr David Minkey EO of WANTFA and Bindi Isbister Chair of ACTFA give a preview of what to expect at the conference. To register for the conference...
