is it an opportunity to sustain Australias farming activities?
A seminar on the opportunities and pitfalls of cross-boundary farming was held in Wagga on Friday, 7 September. Guest speaker David Brunckhorst of the University of New England presented his research from the Tilbuster Commons project. Participants included conventional, hobby, and organic farmers, Ph.D. students, CMA’s, councillors from Wagga, a property lawyer, representatives of the NSW Farmers’ Association, the CWA and federal and state politicans. The forum sparked a great deal of interest – people had a lot of questions and participated in the different lively sessions. During the discussions it became clear that there is a role for individual farm ownership, collective management and for sharing the resources. Such a system can contribute to more sustainable farming practices in Australia. The latest weather forecast predicts that the drought will continue. Therefore it is anticipated that increasingly farms may be taken over the large corporations and that the family farm will
