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Soil Health Workshop

Forty local growers, agronomists and researchers had their say on soil problems at Cranbourne on 28th August 2007.

soil workshop The workshop was one of a series setting national priorities for future soil health projects funded through your national R&D levy.

Short talks from guest speakers included:

Lessons from broadacre cropping soils
Indicators of soil health used in sub-tropical vegetables
Physical, chemical and biological indicators of soil health
The success of grower soil training days - UTE GUIDE

Many soil related issues were raised in the workshop discussion.

These were grouped into major themes including: measuring soil health, raising soil organic matter and reducing soil inputs.

The groups views will help develop better targeted R&D levy proposals on soil health.

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