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Author Archives: Maarten Stapper
Feature Interviews by Future Directions International with Dr Maarten Stapper: The Link Between Healthy Food and Biological Farming
The Northern Australia and Land Care Research Programme of Future Directions International (FDI) is pleased to release a two-part Feature Interview:
Science in the Club: The Power of Plants
A fun get together at the Wicklow Hotel on Wednesday evening 11th April hosted by Dr James O’Hanlon (UNE). From Indigenous medicine to modern agriculture, plants are at the root of our very survival. Learn about where traditional knowledge and … Continue reading
Order DVD: Step Into Biological Farming
Special ‘Farming Secrets’ DVD pack for BioLogic AgFood: – Step Into Biological Farming – New Thinking & Management for Healthy Soils with Biology & Carbon + Healthy Food for Healthy People! Box contains 6 DVD’s of the following talks by Dr … Continue reading
Keynote Presentation: Environmental Challenges in Food Production
Click on the following link to view Maarten’s keynote presentation at a Community Engagement Action Research virtual meeting held on 24th October. http://www.coserve.com.au/D3-CommunityA.htm
GM not the answer: look at the facts
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: The doctor has a passion for biological agriculture
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.’
Bio-farmers’ views
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”.
‘Biological’ farm guru pulls crowds
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
Fertiliser industry listens to agronomist’s concerns
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: Farmers Lifted by New Hope for Farming for the Future
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