Building a ‘bigger bucket’ for Australian crops

Researchers at the University of Southern Queensland are part of a Soil CRC project team helping to ensure Australia’s agricultural sector stays strong in the face of drought.

Funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund, the research project enables the CRC to extend our long-term trials beyond our current lifetime of June 2027.

University of Southern Queensland’s Associate Professor Keith Pembleton is a key member of the project team and said it was exciting to receive this funding, which would ensure the continued collaboration between the University and Soil CRC.

“One of the cool things about this project is that we’ve got experts from around the country coming together to work out ways of building resilience in the soil. We’ve also got grower groups working with us, which gives us a direct conduit to getting our research out,” Associate Professor Pembleton said.

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