Implementing sustainable farming practices in the Herbert: The Oakleigh Farming Company experience

The Oakleigh Farming Company has been progressively changing its farming practices on its property at Cordelia in the Herbert River District. During the last ten years the changes have included the adoption of raised beds at 1.8m row spacing, controlled traffic and dual row planting using double disc opener planters. This paper describes some of the changes that have been made to the farming system and examines their impact on farm productivity and economic performance. Since changing to the current farming system, the farm gross margin has increased from $789/ha to $897/ha. In addition to the numerous cost savings, the new farming system has reduced the time spent on tractors by 54% across the whole farm. Return on investment on the 1997 farming system was 1.6% versus 2.7% on their current farming system. The farming company is continually looking for new ways to improve profitability and believes that innovation is critical for the long term sustainability of the sugar industry.

Portrait of Herbert Reiss Portraits Men

Handwritten on verso: Zur Erinnerung von Euerem in Emigration lebenden. Signed Herbert. Luneville, 4/XI 1938.

Herbert Reiss with his wife Trude Loewy on the beach in England Portraits Couples

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Young boy (Herbert Strauss?) pushing a bicycle down a busy street.

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Herbert Strauss standing under a bus stop street sign along the Unter der Linden boulevard, Berlin.

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Young Herbert Strauss (far right) with three unidentified friends walking down a street on an excursion to Sulzfeld, Baden.

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Studio portrait of the grandmother of Herbert Strauss with two of her daughters.

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Historian Herbert Strauss with CDU Mayor of West Berlin, Richard von Weizsacher.

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Historian Herbert Strauss seated at his desk at the ZFA (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung; Center for Research on Antisemitism); Berlin Portraits Men

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Herbert Strauss seated under trees in a park reading the newspaper; Potsdam.

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Wedding portraits of Betty Ettinghausen and Herbert Oettinger.

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Emil Joachimsthal Collection 1906-1916

Trauer-Gedenkbuch (commemoration booklet); military passport.

1916-17 An der Beresina.

Most photographs with handwritten captions.

Benjamin Rothschild and Herbert Samuel

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Family in war - a personal chronicle : [1938-1943].

The book contains an introduction by Paul Weisz and a collection of family letters written during World War II. The letters were written between February 1938 and September 1945. Some were translated into English and complemented by commentary by the editor, Paul Weisz. Paul Weisz' introduction is 10 pages long and serves as a short memoir by itself. He provides a family chronicle, the living circumstances of his family, and his childhood in Vienna. He ends in 1938 when the family was eager to leave Austria. The following years are covered by the various letters he brought together in this book. The authors are cousin Willie, then already in Palestine, his father Samuel, his mother Stephanie, and his sister Ruth. His father and mother fled to Belgium, but were arrested after the beginning of World War II. They were deported to internment camps in France (St. Cyprien). His sister Ruth tried to escape from Austria to Palestine via the Danube. She got stuck in Yugoslavia, and was interned in Sabac internment camp. Paul's mother died in France in 1942, his father was sent to a concentration camp in Poland and murdered. His sister Ruth was murdered in Yugoslavia. Paul was released in Canada, and was enabled to go to college. He later named his children after his family members who did not survive the Nazi terror: Stephanie, Ruth, and Samuel.