What is the Probitas Five Steps system?

Guided only by the farmer’s most powerful tools: Intuition, instinct and observation Ewan Campbell set about discovering the reasons why:

His farm's pasture production and pasture diversity was poor in spite of an excellent fertiliser history.
There were ongoing animal health problems in spite of a comprehensive animal health programme.
There was an uncontrollable weed problem in spite of an ongoing chemical weed control programme.
Animal reproduction performance was poor and there was a growing number of unexplained animal deaths in spite of a comprehensive preventive animal health programme.

Through trial and error Ewan identified the causes of these problems and set about making the changes needed to overcome them and return his farm to a profitable food production system. Read on for Ewan’s story.

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Farming

Gardening

The Toxic folly. A poem by John Godwin. Comment

Post Drought management.
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Gearld Fry
Gearld is acknowledged as an expert in cattle breeding, cattle genetics and pasture raised beef production. His life's work has been to preserve and improve some of the few remaining untainted cattle genetic strains.
Gearld has kindly allowed us to publish links to his newsletter archives .
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Organic fertiliser helps avocado orchardists

John and Tui Neil reap the benefits of organic fertiliser.

Move away from chemical fertilisers

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THERE IS A STRONG CONNECTION BETWEEN SOIL HEALTH AND
HUMAN HEALTH?

Heavy metals, radio active elements and agricultural chemical residues contaminate our food chain. How this occurs was explained in John Godwins speech to the Probitas Conference.

Click the links below for John Godwins speech.

Part 1: Miasms.

Part 2: Agrichemicals.

Part 3: Nuclear radiation.

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The Probitas System was developed by farmers for farmers

Ewan Campbell is a typical ‘kiwi bloke' who grew up on his father's dairy farm near Te Aroha and became thoroughly familiar with what constitutes poor and deficient land. He bought a property near Waihi and began farming on what was initially very depleted soils holding some of the highest aluminium levels of any soils in the world according to Brookside Laboratory. During sixteen years of observations and trials Ewan developed an eco-safe and sustainable system of farming based on complete mineral and biological balance. He also undertook a period of study of soil testing methodology with Brookside Laboratory from the United States.

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