PASTURES & SOILS

Making headway on soil carbon journey

Grower story: increasing soil carbon through rotational cell grazing and cover crops.

Claire Harris
Steven Hobbs, Kaniva, Victoria, is increasing soil carbon through intensively grazing areas, and leaving long recovery times.

Steven Hobbs, Kaniva, Victoria, is increasing soil carbon through intensively grazing areas, and leaving long recovery times. | Credits: Claire Harris, Kondinin Group.

WHEN Steven Hobbs, from Kaniva, Victoria, first entered the soil carbon game in 2017, he wasn't interested in any project that would take any land out of production. All along, he's managed to keep to...

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A growing series of reports, each focused on a key discussion point for the farming sector, brought to you by the Kondinin team.

A growing series of reports, each focused on a key discussion point for the farming sector, brought to you by the Kondinin team.

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Research Report: Agritechnica 2025 (January 2026)

This month’s Research Report covers the highlights from Agritechnica – the world’s largest trade fair and show for ag machinery and technology. The event is held every two years and attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors.

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Research Report: Mobile Phones (December 2025)

With the closure of Telstra’s 3G network, Kondinin Group engineers Josh Giumelli and Ben White put several popular 4G phones to the test to see how they stacked up. Our standard test protocol applied over the past two decades was maintained as each handset was measured by the maximum distance a two-way call could be made from a phone tower.

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Research Report: Side-by-side Vehicles (November 2025)

Kondinin Group’s research team dives into the side-by-side market for this report, looking at popular diesel models, a few petrol versions and a couple of electric vehicles.

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Research Report: Farming Inputs (October 2025)

Inputs are unavoidable in any farming system. This Research Report focuses on several key farming inputs with a view to maximising outputs, production and profit.