In his books, Peter talks about NSF facilitating the transfer of fertility within a property, but what about the transfer of fertility out of a property. If the natural fertility of a property is used for cropping or grazing, and the resultant produce is then shipped to the market, which in Australia is predominently a few major cities, then it is consumed and the resultant waste ends up......er we know where it ends up, then it is no wonder that after 200 years of european farming that our farms are degraded?
Seems to me that we need to come up with a way to transfer that fertility back up to the farms? No wonder that farmers seem to prefer to chuck a couple of bags of powdered chemical fertiliser around, seems to me that it would be easier, but not better, than returning that fertility from whence it came!
