This event is delivered through the Assessing soil water storage and Building soil resilience and carbon through plant diversity projects, funded by the Soil CRC.
This event is also part of the Silicon fertiliser for drought resilience in broadacre cropping project, which received funding from the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund and was led by The University of Melbourne (project lead - Associate Professor Dorin Gupta), with partners Riverine Plains, Birchip Cropping Group, Gap Flat Native Foods, Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority and Black Duck Foods.
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WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM OUR LONG-TERM COVER & COMPANION CROPPING TRIALS, PLUS LOCAL SOILS
- Soil pit discussion: what's below the surface, and how to look and feel to better understand your soil
- Tour of long-term trials looking at building resilient soils through plant diversity
- Tour of the companion cropping trials
- Discussion on the effect of silicon application to improve drought reslience
- Soil moisture monitoring: what does it mean for farmers
For more information, please contact Riverine Plains on 03 5744 1713 or email Jane McInnes at jane@riverineplains.org.au
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