| By Daniel Lewis – Sourced From |
AS WELL as closing five rail branch lines used to transport grain, the State Government is going to shut eight Department of Primary Industries offices and agricultural research stations.
The closure of the Glen Innes research station has sparked special concern because it has hosted one of the world’s longest-running crop rotation trials, in which soil carbon has been measured since 1934.
Storing more carbon in the soil could become a major weapon in the battle against global warming and farmers hope it will produce a lucrative income stream.
The Deputy Mayor of Glenn Innes-Severn, Col Price, said it was unbelievable that the Government was going to close “an internationally significant living laboratory. There must be options to further the [soil carbon] research, rather than close it down
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