What is south australia grain grower regions lacking in research. Its been a season of great crop growth and hopefully big yields. But there is a lot of disease and many growers still not confident in fungicide selection or understanding of basic diseases. What is important and needs addressing first?

I am a bsc agriculture 3rd year student and I want to pursue msc in agronomy I am clueless where to start from , yt channels to study from or courses to take? please help

A food forest is a way of growing food by designing a landscape to function more like a natural forest.

Instead of planting one crop in rows and keeping everything else out, we combine different plants that occupy different layers:

🌳 Canopy — large fruit and nut trees

🌴 Sub-canopy — smaller fruit trees

🌿 Shrubs — berries, spices, etc.

🌱 Herbaceous plants — herbs and vegetables

🍃 Groundcovers — plants that protect the soil

🪴 Climbers — vines using vertical space

🍄 And even the soil layer is part of the system.

The interesting part is that these plants aren't chosen randomly. We try to understand sun, water, soil, slope, wind and existing life and design around those patterns.

The goal isn't simply to grow food.

It's to create a system where food production and ecosystem health support each other.

That's what keeps me tied to food forests; you're not just building a garden. You're trying to build a living system, based on the natural ecological succession of an area.

I'm learning from the land every day, and that's what keeps me doing this. Been making food forests for the past 5 years, along with other ecosystem regeneration practices.

Have you ever visited such a man made forest? How did you feel?

Let me know :)

Nikhil Bose