Diversification is key for pilot project

By Stephanie Sinclair
Updated September 27 2018 - 12:58pm, first published September 11 2017 - 6:00am
 Wide Open Agriculture (WOA) non-executive director and Buntine farmer Stuart McAlpine and WOA regenerative agricultural officer Emma McInerney were part way through planting 60,000 forage shrubs in Buntine when Farm Weekly dropped by last month.
Wide Open Agriculture (WOA) non-executive director and Buntine farmer Stuart McAlpine and WOA regenerative agricultural officer Emma McInerney were part way through planting 60,000 forage shrubs in Buntine when Farm Weekly dropped by last month.

THE importance of farm diversification has been amplified in recent years, as dry winter conditions become an ever increasing challenge for growers in marginal areas of the WA grainbelt.

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