Category: News
National Soil Action Plan launched
The Soil CRC is excited to be contributing to the implementation of the inaugural National Soil Action Plan, which was launched by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, the Hon Murray Watt, in Canberra on 28 November. This action plan helps to put the detail into the Nation...
Canberra celebrates World Soil Day
The Soil CRC was honoured to be a Lead Supporter of the Parliamentary Friends of Soil (PFOS) World Soil Day event at Canberra’s Parliament House last month. The event sought to focus attention on the importance of healthy soil and to advocate for its sustainable management. Minister for Agricultur...
Our new Strategic Plan: 2023-2027
The Soil CRC Strategic Plan 2023-2027 was released at our Annual General Meeting in late November and will take us through the end of our 10-year term in June 2027. We’re increasing our focus on integration, adoption and outreach, ensuring that the knowledge outputs of the Soil CRC are effectively...
Life-long learner Linda Wirf explores gender in ag
Soil CRC PhD student Linda Wirf’s passion for social justice and a desire for life-long learning has guided her on an inspiring journey of discovery. Linda’s somewhat nomadic childhood exposed her to diverse cultures and landscapes from an early age. Her family picked up stumps every seven years...
Collaboration delivers new sandy soils map
If you read our ‘Enabling soil data’ story last month, you’ll know about Dr Nathan Robinson’s Soil CRC project that is helping to uncover available soil data and improve data management. Dr Robinson and the project team from Federation University, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Manaak...
Green light for longitudinal landholder study
The next phase of the Soil CRC’s national social benchmarking study kicks off this month as we seek to understand how farming and soil management practices change over time. North Central Victorian landholders will be the first to complete our follow-up surveys in early 2024, with two more regions...
Henry’s hydrochar research highlights
Hailing from Uganda, Henry Luutu first visited Australia in 2014 after finishing his undergraduate degree. It was this visit, and a passion for sustainable agriculture, that inspired his return in 2019 to pursue postgraduate studies at Southern Cross University. “During this trip I had an opportun...
Enabling soil data
Good decision making is inextricably linked to good data, so it’s important that we reliably capture, store, analyse, and manage the wealth of data being generated by Soil CRC’s research projects. Dr Nathan Robinson from Federation University Australia is leading our ‘Improving soil data manag...
New soil management resources build technical capacity
As farmers better understand the importance of sustainable soil management for their productivity and profitability, they need advice, technical assistance and expertise from their local grower groups. The Soil CRC’s ‘Building technical capacity’ project set out to increase the soil technical ...
National social benchmarking study complete
The Soil CRC’s social benchmarking of rural landholders across Australia wraps up this month with the release of the final reports for Tasmania and the Wimmera region in Victoria. Led by Dr Hanabeth Luke (Southern Cross University), the latest research completes a nationwide study focussed on land...
Meet Dr Rahat Shabir
Dr Rahat Shabir recently completed his PhD in Agriculture with the Soil CRC and Griffith University and is now looking to embark on the next stage of his career. We caught up with Rahat to learn about his journey so far and find out what’s next. Born and raised in Burewala, Punjab Pakistan, ...
Soil CRC in China
The Soil CRC was on the international stage last month as our CEO, Dr Michael Crawford, was invited to present in the ‘High Level Dialogue’ section of the Global Forum on Soil Health, held in Yangling, China. Dr Crawford joined a small Australian delegation who attended at the ...