Project Overview
Investment:
GRDC
Participating Groups:
Southern Dirt & Stirlings to Coast Farmers
Project Duration:
Two years (2019-2021) extension for SCF until 2022
Project Host(s):
- Theo Cunningham – Cranbrook
- Todd Lubcke – Darkan
Project Aim
To develop, implement and manage a research trial and project extension to improve the confidence in diagnostic methods for delineating and implementing methods to overcome non-wetting in a variety soil types, and to increase the confidence of growers in the decision making for improving soil productivity.
Preliminary Findings:
Two sites have been established in Cranbrook and Darkan with both mechanical soil amelioration and wetting agents trialled. These will be followed over a two-year period to establish any second-year effects from the previous year’s treatments.
Cranbrook Trial Treatments:
Nil control
SE14 at 1 L/Ha
SE14 at 2 L/Ha
SE14 at 4 L/Ha
Terreland Plough + SE14 at 1 L/Ha
Darkan Trial Treatments:
Nil control
SE14 2.5 L/Ha
SE14 2.5 L/Ha + Flexi N
Terreland Plough
Terreland Plough + SE14 2.5 L/Ha
Terreland Plough + SE14 2.5 L/Ha + Flexi N