Professor Keith Pembleton
Project Leader
University of Southern Queensland
Soil constraints affect 77% of Australian soils, costing producers over $1,900 million in lost production. There is considerable grower and national benefit from addressing soil constraints through amelioration and reengineering of soils in an economically appropriate manner.
This project brings together the Soil CRC’s soil constraint and amelioration modelling to create new decision support tools for growers and their advisors. These tools will help guide on-farm soil amelioration and reengineering decisions.
The project team will work with next and end users to co-design and validate these next generation tools, ensuring they are practical and useable.
The Soil CRC’s existing models and algorithms will be integrated with easy-to-use interfaces. The effectiveness of the decision support tools will be tested through on-farm validation with Soil CRC grower group participants and retrospective analysis of past amelioration experiments.
This tools will be promoted to achieve broad uptake within Australian agriculture, enabling farmers and their advisors to make informed decisions about addressing soil constraints in the most economically viable way.
