20 min
Episode 8 Tim Rethus, Farmer Horsham Vic – long-term controlled traffic farming grain and hay production Talking CTF
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- Scienze
Tim Rethus is a farmer from Horsham whose family business Rethus Broadacre has run a controlled traffic farming system for more than 20 years. Tim shares with us their machinery configuration, the benefits, and the challenges of CTF. Rethus is one of the few farms in Australia that produce hay with equipment matched to their 12m CTF system so that all hay operations run on the wheel tracks.
This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series” You can listen to the series here
https://actfa.net/smart-farm-audio-workshop/
Tim Rethus is a farmer from Horsham whose family business Rethus Broadacre has run a controlled traffic farming system for more than 20 years. Tim shares with us their machinery configuration, the benefits, and the challenges of CTF. Rethus is one of the few farms in Australia that produce hay with equipment matched to their 12m CTF system so that all hay operations run on the wheel tracks.
This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series” You can listen to the series here
https://actfa.net/smart-farm-audio-workshop/
20 min