Archive: August 2023
Soil CRC receives drought research grant
The Soil CRC is the proud recipient of a $3.94 million grant from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund to help evaluate drought resilience in varying farming systems and soils. Prime Minister Albanese and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Murray Watt, today announced $38...
Improving soils with plant-based solutions
Professor Terry Rose from Southern Cross University led a recently completed Soil CRC project to uncover how soil performance is affected by increased crop diversity, with promising results. “Major cropping systems in Australia tend to have a low diversity of crop species in their rotations, which...
Knowledge sharing for good soil stewardship
Dr Hanabeth Luke of Southern Cross University is leading the Soil CRC’s research effort to address the challenges and opportunities associated with sharing soil knowledge, with the aim of increasing farmer uptake of new research outputs. “Effective knowledge sharing processes between farmers, sc...
VIDEOS: Improving decision support systems
Soil CRC’s Improving decision support systems project wrapped up in 2022, helping address soil constraints by improving the tools growers, agronomists and researchers use to inform their decision-making. This project tackled the issue that most computer simulation models and decision support syste...