Landholder survey underway in Eyre Peninsula

The Soil CRC’s 2024 landholder survey is landing in letterboxes in the Eyre Peninsula region of South Australia this month. This survey is part of the national Soil CRC Social Benchmarking Study led by Dr Hanabeth Luke from Southern Cross University.

This project seeks to uncover how farming and soil management practices change over time, to better guide farmer engagement and strategic planning in rural Australia.

The survey has been co-designed with local Soil CRC partner Ag Innovation and Research Eyre Peninsula (AIR EP), to ensure the questions are regionally relevant and useful, enabling farming groups and other organisations to offer targeted support for landholders.

Landholders are being asked about their assessment of issues, long-term plans, enterprise mix and where they access information about farming and land management, to identify factors shaping land management in each region.

AIR EP was involved in the Soil CRC’s earlier landholder survey in 2020 and used the results as a springboard to bring projects and funding into the region, and to inform their strategic plan. They’re now helping to promote the follow-up survey, encouraging local landholders and land managers to get involved.

The information collected will also inform the activities of the Soil CRC, helping to increase stakeholder engagement, as well as relevance and impact of research outputs.

Eyre Peninsula landholders will shortly receive a letter in their mailboxes. The survey can also be accessed online at the link below.

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