Knowledge Hub

This presentation explores the application of a partnership model used to build innovation capability systems in large agribusinesses, to smaller farmer groups. Presented by Soil CRC Project Leader Associate Professor David Falepau from Charles Sturt University who led the project ‘Building farmer innovation capability’, and Phillip Guthrie, Innovations Leader at Birchip Cropping Group. Watch webinar.

The Soil CRC’s 2019-2020 Annual Report offers an overview of our key achievements and research highlights during our third year of operation. Read the report.

This presentation by Soil CRC Project Leader Dr Mehran Rezaei Rashti focuses on assessment of a soil resistance and resilience approach as a measure of soil health and performance under environmental stresses such as compaction and drought. Watch webinar.

Presented by Soil CRC Project Leader Dr Dane Lamb, University of Newcastle, this webinar examines the development of technologies to recover essential nutrients from organic waste streams such as poultry manure, pig manure, dairy farm wastes, sewage and industrial effluents. Watch the recording.

Hossain, M.Z., Bahar, M. M., Sarkar, B., Donne, S.W., Ok, Y.S., Palansooriya, K.N., Kirkham, M.B., Chowdbury, S. & Bolan, N. (2020). Biochar and its importance on nutrient dynamics in soil and plant. Biochar 2 379-420. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42773-020-00065-z. Read the article.

Presented by Soil CRC Project Leader Associate Professor Vaughan Higgins, University of Tasmania, this presentation uses the theoretical lens of ‘care’ to explore different strategies for enhancing the adoptability of soil improvement practices. Watch webinar.

Decision support systems do not always represent all soil constraints. This presentation by Dr Keith Pembleton and Dr Chloe Lai from the University of Southern Queensland explains how a Soil CRC project is working to address this issue on existing DSS such as Gypsy. Watch the webinar.

The Soil CRC’s ‘Smelling soil’ project is developing an eNose as an affordable device to help growers monitor their soil. Presenters: Dr Shane Powell and Dr Robert Hardy from University of Tasmania. Watch our webinar to learn more.

This presentation by Dr Chenrong Chen (Griffith University) focuses on the assessment of locally available and low-cost organic, inorganic and biochar materials as promising alternative microbial carriers to peat for invention and commercialisation of novel rhizobium inoculants. Watch webinar.

Dr Aravind Surapaneni from South East Water and Associate Professor Matthew Currell from RMIT, speak on the use of biosolids in the subsoil and what their trials have been showing. This webinar was presented on Tuesday July 28 2020. Watch webinar.