TAILIEUCHUNG - SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE 2nd Edition - Part 7

7 Management A farm is like a machine, fuelled by various resources, such as pasture, manpower, soil, water, equipment, crop plants and animals. As the resources become depleted or are used improperly, the profitability of the ‘machine’ | 7 Management A farm is like a machine fuelled by various resources such as pasture manpower soil water equipment crop plants and animals. As the resources become depleted or are used improperly the profitability of the machine decreases wasting resources and diminishing in both production and financial terms. Sustainable agriculture is a long-term answer to this scenario. As with any business enterprise long-term goals should be in place to give the business a direction that will see it running successfully for generations to come. What often appears as short-term loss decrease in production or expensive investments may be the very things necessary to keep the business viable into the future. Such is the case with sustainable farming. If a method of farming is not profitable it is not sustainable. Sustainable farmers recognise that whilst their returns may be lower than those of conventional farmers their costs are also lower due to lower inputs of expensive items such as chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Changing an existing farm to a sustainable property It can be both disruptive and expensive to change an existing farm from a traditional operation to a sustainable one. The change should not however be expected to take place overnight. A realistic approach is often to convert to a low input-sustainable system over a period of 5-10 years one paddock at a time. There is no sense in trying to make a farm environmentally sustainable overnight if in doing so you lose both financial sustainability and ownership of the farm. Making the change will always involve some trade-offs. For example the quality or quantity of production might decrease but the cost of production might also be reduced. In balance the profitability remains the same. The farm will have lost very little in the short term in order to achieve sustainability in the long term. 114 Sustainable Agriculture Other changes that can be gradually introduced might include reducing or eliminating the use of .

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