Industry Unites To Promote Compost Use

Australia

Among the initiatives of the Compost For Soils program is funding scientific research. Positive results using finely screened commercial organic compost in the vegetable, orchard and vineyard markets are described.

THE Compost for Soils program in South Australia began in 2006 when three compost producers - Jeffries Group, Peats Soil and Garden Supplies and Van Schaik's Biogro - joined forces to change consumer opinion of their products and to educate their markets about the benefits of using compost. "The perception in our markets was that our products were simply piles of dirt," says Jeffries Group Managing Director Lachlan Jeffries, one of the three producers …