Plan Element Pricings Given the enormous success of the REX Online Farm Planning courses, since 2017 its been unusual for us to create whole farm plans. HOWEVER what people do want from us are precision GPS-ready CAD grading construction layouts of different plan elements— for earthmoving contractors and establishment crews.…
Regrarians Handbook Update – 2020.04.07
On Monday the 6th of April 2020 we were offered a package of financial support to pay for the production team and myself to complete and print the Regrarians Handbook. We made a commitment in January to not run any educational programs until October – this was to allow us…
Off the Contour #24 – #KeylineSuperPlow History
1994/95 Our dear friends Nada & Tony Smark (then of Woodbrook Farm) bought us our first Yeomans Keyline Plow in return for us designing & developing their first vineyard & forest (which was a Keyline vineyard & forest – see picture below!). What is a ‘Regrarians Keyline Superplow’? History Since…
Holstons Savannah Shade Study
The integration of trees into agricultural landscapes is done in many different ways. One layout that has a lot of practical and aesthetic appeal to even the most ardent of graziers is the savannah. Otherwise known as open grassy woodlands, dehesa (see photo below) and montado these systems are seen…
Off the Contour #23 – Fertile Landscapes SuperPlow Project
Over the last few years Franck Chevallier (France) has developed a open source (OS) subsoiler which is designed to be able to be built by local metal workers using readily available materials. In 2016 Regrarians’ Darren J. Doherty instigated the formation of a working group to develop formal CAD plans…
Off the Contour #22 — Producing chickens like cows
by Darren J. Doherty 2016 marked 40 years since Earl Butz (1909-2008) resigned as USA Secretary of Agriculture, however his vision for ‘getting big or getting out’ and ‘planting fence row to fence row’ has continued unabated — as have the terms of trade decline for producers and the decreased…
Irrigation Dam Concept Layout
The late, great P.A. Yeomans (1904-1984) did the world a great service by developing the #Keyline farm planning system from the 1940’s. With this he provided some excellent and enduring work on the ground on any number of properties across Australia and a few other parts of the world, notably a…
Low-Tillage Non-Inversion Tree Establishment?
Over the years I’ve been musing and discussing with both myself and a number of folks about the notion of non-inversion, low-till broad scale tree/shrub establishment. Its always concerned me that methods we pioneered, going back to the mid 90’s with the DOJO (ripper:tiller:mounder) and beyond, have been particularly deleterious…
#RegrariansGeography Process — Holstons Station
#2Geography in the #RegrariansPlatform® — our first planning project for 2017 — Holstons Pastoral Co is 1000ha (2500ac) property near Buchan in Gippsland, VIC, AU. Here we are starting things off with the #RegrariansGeography analysis — this is in part adapted from the late P.A. Yeomans Keyline® Geographic and Geometric analysis…
2017 Kicks off at Holston’s Station
We kicked off 2017 with our first farm visit for the year at the 1300ha Holstons Station near Buchan in east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The brief is to design build a complete Keyline® landscape using the #RegrariansPlatform. We tested the new DJI #MavicPro — both for getting a bird’s eye view of the site…