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Farm worker from the other end of the world here! Spent the last three years living/working on vineyards and cattle stations in Australia, currently studying ag (and sociology) in New Zealand. Borders are closed, so I'll either find a research scholarship or some harvest work here for the summer. Agriculture here's doing some pretty interesting things! On one hand, there's some extremely smart operators running intensive grain and dairy outfits with impressive results -- and a lot of inorganic fertilisers, runoff, and topsoil loss. But there's increasing concern about the impact ag has on waterways and carbon emissions, so there's also a growing uptake of regenerative agricultural principles, as well as chasing profit by reducing output, but selling into premium markets. We're in a funny spot: agriculture makes up 5% of total GDP, but 20% of total exports, and 50% of total greenhouse emissions. Real interested if any of you have had experience turning cropland into pasture, or vice versa? Or if you incorporate cropping and grazing into the same rotations. Here's one of the newer arrivals. Probably the first human he's ever seen :3 mama was busy scratching her butt on that wattle there. 
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