Archive: December 2020
Soil CRC hosts inaugural meeting of Parliamentary Friends of Soil
The Parliamentary Friends of Soil breakfast, held in Canberra yesterday, brought together farmers, scientists, industry representatives and politicians to celebrate World Soil Day....
Politicians, farmers, scientists, and industry celebrate World Soil Day
People with a passion for soil health converged in Canberra this week for the first meeting of the Parliamentary Friends of Soil....
Almost a marine biologist
Professor Chengrong Chen of Griffith University is well known to many Soil CRC participants as a soil biogeochemist. However, he could well have followed a different path....
5 minutes with a farmer group: Herbert Cane Productivity Services
Herbert Cane Productivity Services is servicing the sugarcane growing region around Herbert River in far north Queensland....
Project Update: New amendments for sandy soils
A Soil CRC project team led by Prof. Richard Bell at Murdoch University hypothesise that the solution is to permanently raise the reactive surface area of a sandy soil with added clay or recalcitrant organic matter, or both, to help address the lack of supply of resources....
Biochar improves soil properties
The application of biochar, the charcoal produced from the slow pyrolysis of a biomass, has been found to improve soil properties in several ways....
Soil carbon – if it is cheaper to measure, will it increase faster?
Reducing soil carbon measurement costs and saying it will increase soil carbon sequestration is like saying “get a better stopwatch and you will run faster”....
Partner Profile: NSW Department of Primary Industries
As a major partner in the Soil CRC, NSW DPI value the collaborations that occur between universities, grower groups and industry....
Researchers question soil carbon — a key plank of the new Technology Investment Roadmap
From ABC Country Hour: The Federal Government's new energy policy has identified carbon farming as a key method of reducing emissions....
PhD student profile: Jaye Hill
Jaye Hill is a Soil CRC PhD student studying at the University of Southern Queensland and working on the PhD project Proximal soil sensing to measure and map soil nutrients....
The impact of age on farmer behaviours
The Surveying Farm Practices team has been digging deeper into the results of their survey in north central Victoria to examine what difference age makes to farm management decisions....
From weeds to WANTFA
Growing up in Perth, David's exposure to rural life was limited to visiting a friend’s farm, but as an adult he has found himself immersed in agriculture and food production. ...