Soil potassium rundown in the Western grains region
Report or other publication
Examining the evidence for soil potassium rundown, its likely impacts on crop yields, implications for soil testing and fertilisation and the types of soils which will be most at risk in the coming decade.
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Recycled organics fertiliser
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Understanding the chemical make-up of recycled organics is an essential first step in evaluating the potential soil and crop benefits they may provide.
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Understanding biological farming inputs
Report or other publication
This review highlights the lack of field-scale evidence of benefits for many biological amendments with potential to be used in agriculture.
NRInfo
Tool or calculator
The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development provides access to digital mapping and information for natural resources across Western Australia through NRInfo (natural resource information).
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
The Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook specifies methods and terminology for soil and land surveys.
Inoculating legumes: practice and science
Report or other publication
A comprehensive handbook detailing all the latest science and practical management knowledge around legume inoculation.
Grains Research and Development Corporation
Soil pit demonstration in a deep sandy soil presented by Paul Blackwell at Mingenew, Western Australia.
Soil texture is an inherent property of soil that affects the biological, chemical and physical behaviour of soil and properties such as nutrient and water movement and retention that affect agricultural potential
