Growing soil carbon 101 course (online)

GROWING SOIL CARBON 101

This course for farmers, farm managers, agronomists, land management and NRM advisors has a focus on how soil organic matter and soil carbon can increase soil quality and reduce agronomic issues. 

Using common-sense principles for increasing and protecting soil carbon in Australian broadacre systems, it covers how to build soil carbon with crops and pasture, roots, microbes, plant nutrition, vegetation, groundcover, and landscape rehydration.

The course is online and self-paced (complete at a time that's convenient to you) and features:

• A comprehensive agronomic and scientific understanding of soil carbon

•  Practical insights from farmers growing soil carbon in cropping and grazing

•  The ins and outs of farm emissions, the tools to measure them and who can help

•  Familiarisation with the new carbon economy and its impact on agriculture 

• Clarity on ACCU Carbon Farming projects and the Soil Carbon Method

The Growing Soil Carbon 101 online course is delivered by SoilCQuest.

Cost: Free for Riverine Plains Members, non-members $149. Limited places are available for Riverine Plains members - members, check the Riverine Plains online portal dashboard for the discount code.

Learn more about the course, or enrol (external link - SoilCQuest).