Author Archives: Maarten Stapper

Published in Countryman, 7 April 2011 Genetically modified (GM) wheat is not the solution for more productivity and profitability. I am an agricultural scientist with more than 30 years of international experience and have worked for CSIRO in south-eastern Australia … Continue reading →

Australian Organic Producer, A Biological Farmers of Australia magazine Winter 2009, p 7. ‘DR MAARTEN STAPPER, DIRECTOR OF BIOLOGIC AGFOOD, has been an expert in science and agriculture for more than 40 years.’

Published in : Rural News July 7, 2009, p 36. Farmers Peter and Pam Cook, NSW, reckon they’re saving “in the vicinity of $20,000 a year in chemical and looking after the property”.

Published in : Rural News July 7, 2009, p 35-36. By Neil Keating Animals in “extraordinary” health raised on “healthy soils that look and smell good”, growing plants with “less disease and insect damage, with great root systems and taste”.All thanks … Continue reading →

Published in : Country Leader, Monday, October 12, 2009, p 3. ‘In an unlikely marriage, the local fertiliser industry is sponsoring conservation agronomist Maarten Stapper to convince the region’s farmers to reduce their use of chemical fertiliser.’

Media Release, October 2009 Tamworth’s Terry Balla may have joined 85 others from Kempsey, Armidale and the surrounding area to pick up some soil management tips from leading agronomist Dr Maarten Stapper but he left with something even he never … Continue reading →

Published in : Farm Weekly, August 20, 2009, p 20 By Peter Lee About 40 of the faithful and the hopeful, with probably the odd sceptic, gathered at Wongan Hills recently to hear an alternative to traditional agricultural thinking and … Continue reading →

Published in : ABC Rural –  Tuesday, 22/09/2009 By Sarina Locke The former Governor General Michael Jeffrey is so worried about the state of agricultural land degradation in Australia that he’s spearheading an organisation to push for a different farming … Continue reading →