How to make more dirt down on the farm and get paid for it

There's an old saying about soil: they're not making any more of it.

Farmer Niels Olsen designed a new machine to rejuvenate his soil.

But some farmers are.

In just five years, Niels Olsen used his own invention to build more soil on his property in Gippsland, Victoria.

It delivered him the title of 2019 Carbon Farmer of the Year and it's vastly improved the health of his land — but it requires an unconventional approach.

Read the Landline story from ABC News by Pip Courtney and Anna Levy  - “How to make more dirt down on the farm and get paid for it.”