What is No Kill Cropping

• No Kill Cropping is the growing of crops into grasslands without eliminating any of the existing plants and animals.
• No Kill Cropping was invented by Bruce Maynard of Narromine, New South Wales in 1995 and has been adopted across Australia in various forms since that time.
• No Kill is done by using five principles to ensure that the disturbance used when sowing the crop enhances the natural function of the grassland.
• The five principles of No Kill Cropping are:
  • Sowing is done dry.
  • Coulter disc sowing equipment (no tynes).
  • No Fertiliser.
  • No Herbicides or Pesticides.
  • Good Grazing Management.
• Correct use of the principles yields profitable crops in grasslands without causing damage to the grasslands- a truly sustainable long term system.
• Some of the exciting consequences of this approach are the regeneration effects on degraded land and the startling reduction in inputs (including fossil fuels).  The total preservation of all the existing plant life also means that the Carbon storage potential of the system is at its maximum.  
• Traditional cropping methods destroy both vegetation and soil organisms to grow crops- No Kill does neither, but still turns a better profit than many conventional crops under the same conditions when input cost and extra grazing potential are counted.
• No Kill Cropping offers one of the few substantial solutions for addressing the Climate Change crisis that is now impacting Australia and agriculture in particular