Archive: November 2020
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....
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