Indigenous Farming Methods
In pre-colonial Australia, the size and distribution of this were determined by access to food, water, and natural resources.
What is the Indigenous population?
This was the deregulation of the dairy industry?
What is 2000?
These plants are regionally significant to the Riverina region (3).
What is rice, vineyards, wheat, oranges, cotton, corn.
This Australian state is the largest producer of beef cattle.
What is Queensland?
This term describes an ecologically based strategy for controlling pests that integrates multiple control methods and reduces reliance on chemicals.
What is Integrated Pest Management?
This was used to conserve water.
What is a rock well?
This was when merinos were introduced to Australia.
What is 1797?
These three grafting techniques are commonly used in horticulture to join plant parts together so they grow as one.
What are saddle grafting, splice grafting, and whip and tongue grafting?
These are the current ethical debates surrounding sheep?
What are live export, mulesing, and animal welfare.
This national research organisation conducts agricultural research in Australia.
What is CSIRO?
These are 3 land management practices.
What is Firestick Farming, Fishing Traps and Cool Burning?
In the 1900s, this fungus caused widespread losses in wheat crops.
What is rust?
Puccinia graminis is the scientific name for this common fungal disease that damages cereal crops like wheat.
What is stem rust.
These are the four compartments of a ruminant’s stomach.
What are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum?
The term for all the resources and processes used to bring agricultural products to consumers.
What is Supply Chain?
What are digging sticks, grinding stones, coolamons, nets and traps?
In what year did NLIS tags get introduced?
What is 2006?
These are some methods of asexual reproduction (5).
What is grafting, budding, cuttings, layering, and division.
These are the four types of pest control methods used in Integrated Pest Management.
What are biological, cultural, chemical, and physical control?
This type of farming uses remote sensors, drones, and data analysis to improve productivity and reduce waste.
What is Precision Agriculture?
Why did Indigenous Australians build traps along the Barwon River and where is it.
What are Fish Traps at Brewarrina
The invention of this mechanical harvester by H.V. McKay revolutionised grain production in Australia.
What is the Sunshine Harvester?
This legislation, passed in 1992, aimed to promote sustainable land management.
What is the National Landcare Program?
This set of principles promoted by the RSPCA describes the basic needs that must be met for animal welfare.
What is freedom from/to:
- discomfort due to environment,
- thirst, hunger and malnutrition,
- express normal behaviour,
- fear and distress
- pain injury and disease
This concept involves producing food, fibre, and fuel in a way that protects the environment and supports rural communities.
What is Sustainable Agriculture?