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Unit of Study AGRC2006 - Regenerative Agricultural Practices (2023)

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  • Enrolment information

    All students must attend the compulsory second-year Regenerative Agriculture Farm Study Tour, which runs in O week of Term 2 and contains practical skills for AGRC2006 (4 days) and AGRC2004 (2 days). The Farm Study Tour will leave from the Lismore campus and will last 6 days. All students participating in the Farm Study Tour will need to pay a contribution ($300) towards accommodation. For details on how to pay your contribution email the Unit Assessor Professor Terry Rose at: terry.rose@scu.edu.au.

Unit description

Examines a range of alternative farming approaches and systems in relation to their geographical, social, economic and climatic context. Students will investigate and critique a range of regenerative agricultural practices to improving soil health and plant and animal productivity including agroecological design, organics, cropping and livestock management approaches. Key components of farming systems across different farming contexts will be evaluated.

Unit content

  1. Philosophies and agroecological practices in regenerative agriculture
  2. Using agroecological understanding to design farming systems
  3. Alternative grazing systems
  4. Alternative cropping systems, including native grains
  5. Horticulture, pests, disease and biological controls
  6. Organics, permaculture and biodynamics

 

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Lismore
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

explain the underpinning principles of regenerative agriculture

describe a range of alternative farming systems, including horticulture, integrated livestock, cropping, organics and permaculture

critically review and evaluate factors that can constrain or enable farming systems

develop an agronomic team project to examine a regenerative approach to farming

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