Natural Gain: In the Grazing Lands of Southern Australia

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Summary: Agriculture for ever
Review: Natural gain covers the two centuries of the farmland in the southern of Australia. It is focus in the pastureland. It is about the conquest of unexplored continent and the resolve of the problems of once of the more poor land of the world. The fundamental of the book is that agriculture is a part of the ecosystem, and the evolution of the agriculture is the evolution of the ecosystem. Although there is losses and gain. Today the grass is greener than ever in southern Australia, the erosion is low, the soils have more nitrogen and phosphorus, and more carbon sequester. The diversity of plants is higher, sometimes are good for farmer other times weeds, but it is higher. The sheep and cattle are feeding with pastures, that it is the best "ecological" feed for these herbivores. These results have been made by the constant labor of no well know farmers and researchers. It is a historical agricultural book. Also it is a summary of the history of a New Continent based of natural gain.

It is a practical book for farmer, students, researchers, practitioners of agriculture and historian.