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Wheatbelt NRM’s ‘Get the dirt’ podcast digs into what really matters for soil health, resilience and farming in a tough climate. In this interview, Emeritus Professor Richard Bell discusses new farming methods designed to increase soil carbon, reduce green house gas emissions, and improve soil fertility across Western Australia’s Wheatbelt. Listen here.

Wheatbelt NRM’s ‘Get the dirt’ podcast digs into what really matters for soil health, resilience and farming in a tough climate. In this eye-opening interview, soil scientist Dr Mehran Rashti, Soil CRC project leader (4.1.005 and 4.1.003) from Griffith University, reveals how understanding soil resilience, from microbial functions, organic matter, to the importance of root depth, could help improve your crop long-term. Listen here.

This project (4.1.005) examined how land management practices affect soil resilience, with the goal of identifying which practices build more resilient soils and under what conditions they are most likely to benefit farmers. Read our research findings fact sheet to learn more.

Pyone WW, Bell RW, Rose MT, McGrath GS. (2026) Impact of soil physical and chemical properties on residual diuron toxicity against canola seedlings. Soil Research 64, SR25191. https://doi.org/10.1071/SR25191. Read article.

McGuinness, E., Gibson, A. J., Oakes, J., Farrell, M., & Wells, N. S. (2026). Drivers of Input and Stabilisation Control Subsoil Organic Carbon Content in Perennial Pasture Grazing Systems. Soil Systems, 10(2), 33. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems10020033. Read article.

Rahman, M., Teng, S.W., Murshed, M., Paul, M. & Brennan, D. (2025). Deep learning-based adaptive-downsampling of hyperspectral bands for soil organic carbon estimation. IEEE Access, 13, 95392-95409. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3574697. Read the article.

Datta, D., Paul, M., Murshed, M., Teng, S.W. & Schmidtke, L. (2025). Hybrid Bayesian Attention Model for estimating soil organic carbon from Landsat 8 satellite data. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 237, 110406, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2025.110406. Read the article.

The aim of the ‘New farming methods to sequester soil carbon’ project (4.1.006) was to trial, measure and demonstrate crop sequencing and new technologies that can sequester organic carbon, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and improve soil fertility in crop production systems that have traditionally struggled to accumulate carbon. Read case study.

Dr David Minkey from Western Australian No-Tillage Farmers Association presents on his Soil CRC research, which investigated modern farming methods for sequestering soil carbon and improving soil fertility. Recorded in Perth, Western Australia, on 27 August 2025. Watch recording.

A PhD research poster by Dristi Datta (Charles Sturt University). Presented at the 2025 Soil CRC Participants Conference in Perth, Western Australia. View the poster.