Knowledge Hub

Luke, H. (2025). Designing social surveys for understanding farming and natural resource management: A purposeful review of best-practice survey methods. Land Use Policy, Volume 153, 107526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107526. Read article.

This Knowledge Sharing Guide is designed to be used as an easy reference for Australian farming grower groups and professionals involved in engagement, extension, education and other forms of knowledge sharing aimed at improving land and farm management. Read the guide.

This project aimed to identify knowledge sharing strategies to increase the number of landholders engaged in soil health improvement practices. Read our project fact sheet.

An inventory of Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Tools (DST) designed specifically for soil management, or for farm enterprises with a soil emphasis.

This document identifies existing (2018) systems and tools designed to assist farmer decision making associated with soil management, comments on their currency and considers the potential for the Soil CRC to further evaluate them and/or use them to assist farmer decision making in the future.

Soil CRC PhD student Linda Wirf from Charles Sturt University presents her research in this five-minute presentation. Recorded at the 2022 Soil CRC Participants Conference on 24 August 2022 in Adelaide. Watch recording.

The Soil CRC has surveyed thousands of landholders across six Australian farming regions, in North Central Victoria, Central West NSW, the Western Australian Wheatbelt, Tasmania, South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula and the Wimmera region of Victoria. Read our project reports.

Hernandez, S., Luke, H. & Alexanderson. M.S., (2024). Is human activity driving climate change? Perspectives from Australian landholders. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 8:1392746. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1392746. Read article.

This fact sheet supports the presentation by Soil CRC Program Leader Dr Catherine Allan (Charles Sturt University), that discusses designing, delivering and measuring modern, complex extension programs. Read fact sheet.

Alexanderson, M.S., Luke, H., & Lloyd, D.J. (2023). Regenerative farming as climate action. Environmental Management, 347, Article 119063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119063

The knowledge sharing panel asked the question ‘How can we do it better?’ Soil CRC’s Program 1 Leader Professor Catherine Allan guided the discussion with Hanabeth Luke from Southern Cross University, Simon Kruger from West Midlands Group, Eyre Peninsula consultant David Davenport and Soil CRC’s Felicity Harrop. Recorded at the 2023 Soil CRC Participants Conference in Launceston, Tasmania, on 30 August 2023.