Green Farmers Manifesto

A "Green Farmer" is an "agricultural entrepreneur who profits by following natural processes".
The "Green Farmer" is a better capitalist than the non-Green variety because tomorrow's profit is as important as today's. The Green Farmer builds the natural resource base he exploits to make money. The non-Green farmer depletes his resources, like soil and water.
The Green Farmer avoids costly inputs such as chemical fertilisers and heavy use of herbicides and insecticides, weaning his animals and plants off these expensive, but temporary, quick fixes.
The "Green Farmer" tries to get out of Nature's way, while the non-Green farmer confronts nature and struggles against it.
The non-Green farmer gives farming a bad name. It's the non-Green farmer and his industry spokesmen who the environmental lobbyists point to when they demonise farming as a profession and call for so many of its practices to be banned.
If the public knew the work of the thousands of Green Farmers across Australia - of the tree planting and the wildlife corridors and the soil conservation and species protection and the regenerative agriculture and lets forget about 'sustainability', it's meaningless. (Sustaining a sick system is sustaining sickness.) It is RECUPERATIVE farming that is going on here, there and everywhere.
The mainstream rural newspapers mention rotational grazing in every issue. "Sustainable" agriculture has been bandied
about 'til it has no meaning left... so it's a safe label for anyone. Imagine if all the associations and groups of farmers who take the natural path to riches - Green farmers all - formed a National Federation of Green Farmers. Imagine its members numbering in the thousands, to rival the NFF and associated bodies (who have a crisis of membership). Imagine the impact on public opinion when Green Farmers' Federation spokespersons are quoted taking a pro-nature stand on key issues.
We'd pull the rug out from under the "Green" lobby by stealing their name. We'd have them on toast because a lot of what they advocate runs counter to soil health and species survival - ie. locking land up and allowing trees to cover grassland species that cover the earth and prevent erosion. A commonsense voice in between the extremists. We would need to be broad church.
If we could recruit all those with experience in or practicing rotational grazing (HRM and GFP), organics, Natural Sequence Farming, Keyline Irrigation, Minimum-Till and No-Till Farming, Conservation Farming, Landcare members, Biological Farmers, Biodynamic operators, etc., what a force for good it could be.
It would be a loose federation of environmentally-conscious growers who are in the front ranks in the New Agricultural Revolution. No longer the weirdo next door or a secret society.
Leading agriculture out from under the crippling dominion of the pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies.