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The Healthy Soils Symposium - Can Australian Soils Sustain our Agricultural Systems?

Investors in the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms programme are proud to convene a Symposium on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The event poses a challenging question and invites farmers, scientists, agronomists and economists to find answers. Can Australian soils sustain our agricultural systems? At this event we are confident that delegates will go home with valuable new perspectives and a better capacity to formulate their own answers. We are particularly proud of (more)...

How much water does a woodland or plantation use: a review of some measurement methods

Determining the water balance of a landscape is important to sustainable management of water, vegetation and land resources. Water flow through vegetation is the principle pathway for the discharge of water from Australian landscapes. The rate of this discharge is determined by solar radiation, leaf area index, vapour pressure deficit and soil moisture content. Tree transpiration from plantations and native woodlands and forests is an important determinant of the water balance of much of the (more)...

Sustainable farming practicies in the Mid-Loddon sub-catchement

Faced with climate variability and declining land quality, farmers are looking for alternative environmental management models to ensure the sustainability of their enterprises. The application of biological soil health principles is considered a possible input into any new management regime. Recent surveys of landowner attitudes to environmental management across several agricultural sectors show that any initiatives must satisfy the join criteria of effectiveness and cost-efficiency in (more)...

Sustainable Development of Tropical Australia: R&D for Management of Land, Water and Marine Resources

Themes and experimental protocols for sustainable grazing systems

The Getting of Knowledge

This document is the updated product of a two week writing sabbatical undertaken in October 2006 by former Land & Water Australia Director Andrew Campbell.

Written as a ‘how-to’ guide, it aims to capture, distill

Regional Approaches to Rangeland Planning

Irrigation Update No. 5: Newsletter of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation

In this issue:

• Passion the hallmark of new chairman - Introducing the new chairman for the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation
• Project proves value of engaging community - A project focusing on promoting stakeholder participation in research is proving the value of involving the community from the earliest stages
• Testing the waters - A research team is about to test new equipment in the field with producers