Category: News

Soil CRC Conference wrap-up

We were thrilled to see over 140 Soil CRC participants and stakeholders gather in Launceston, Tasmania, from 29 to 31 August for our 2023 Soil CRC Participants Conference. Soil CRC staff and participants gathered on day one to take part in productive project team meetings, program workshops and our ...

PhD students in the spotlight

Soil CRC PhD students shone bright at our 2023 Participants Conference in Launceston last month – showcasing their research projects, contributing to robust future-focused conversations, and sharing soil knowledge amongst like-minded peers. Day one of the conference kicked off with the highly ...

Digging into Tasmanian soils

The 2023 Soil CRC Participants Conference concluded with three jam-packed field trips focused on soil management issues in northern Tasmania. Delegates elected to hop on a bus and head on one of three tours. “The field trips were a great opportunity to highlight the challenges and opportunities fo...

$3.94M for drought research

The Soil CRC has received a $3.94 million grant from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund to help Australia’s farmers prepare for future drought. Prime Minister Albanese and Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Murray Watt, last month announced $38 million in funding for ...

New film highlights importance of soil health

Thankful4Farmers has partnered with Nviro Media to produce a new film that celebrates what Australian farmers are doing to improve soil health. Titled ‘Thankful for Soil’, the 21-minute documentary aims to raise awareness of the importance of soil health and showcase the benefits of climate smar...

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...

Redox in the rhizosphere: Daven’s research mission

From the top end of Australia to Lyon in France, Soil CRC PhD student Daven Gopalan travels far and wide to share his passion for environmental chemistry and soil science. Daven is enrolled at Southern Cross University and we caught up with him to find out what makes him tick. What is the aim of [&h...

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...

Spotlight on emerging soil technologies

Presenting at the Soil Science Australia conference last month, project leader Dr Marcus Hardie from the University of Tasmania outlined some of Soil CRC’s emerging technologies and spoke about their genesis and development. “The Soil CRC has invested around $4.9M in its partners to help develop...

Bhavya’s war on biowaste

Soil CRC PhD student Bhavya Mod is enrolled at the University of Newcastle and was recently announced as a finalist in the Early Career Researchers Competition run by Cooperative Research Australia. Read about Bhavya’s PhD research into soil carbon storage and find out what motivates him. What is ...

Soil science conference wrap-up

Soil CRC projects took centre stage at the 2023 Soil Science Australia Conference last month, with over 20 of our researchers and PhD students presenting to over 300 delegates. The conference kicked off with an opening address by Soil CRC Patron and National Soils Advocate, the Hon Penny Wensley, wh...