Farm advisers and inoculant manufacturers want improvements in microbial carriers so rhizobia can survive acidic and dry soils in sthn NSW

Dilemma posed by Suz Orgill at Incitec conference today Melbourne: how to balance need for crop N and maintain soil C? See next for solution

Solution: Build enough C&N in pasture phase to minimise the need for fert N in crop phase, while avoiding net rundown of soil C over time

The Soils Unit's Mark Whatmuff shows NSW SKN toxic implications of high Cu, Zn, Cd in 15yr DPI trial. Toxicity varies with SOC and pH. #SKNroadtrip

Soils Knowledge Network show DPI soil staff a 10,000+ year old A1 horizon that is >150cm deep!

Revegetation improved soil stability and increased SOC on a saline area near Camden, says Soilguru Roy Lawrie on #SKNroadtrip with Soils Unit

GR8 to see some award winning soil science at the ACT Science Fair. Congratulations to Rupert for his 2nd prize in the earth and space category about soil texture

Celebrating #WorldSoilDay with soil carbon collaboration! DPI Soils, South East LLS, Uni Sydney, CSU and ANU sample sites on the Monaro to continue monitoring the impacts of management and climate on soil carbon. Sydney Agriculture @ANUFennerSchool Local Land Services @GrahamCentre

Congrats to 140+ participants frm 4 #Vietnam provinces at this month’s #soil salinity measurement/monitoring workshops run by Charles Sturt University @Grahamcentre - included how to use a phone app to georeference their measurements ACIAR Murdoch University @NSWDPI_Soils Gillian Bird 🇦🇺

Achieving landscape scale change by rehydrating rangeland soils- Susan Dr Susan Orgill collecting evidence on the benefits of on ground works done by Rangelands Rehydration Alliance, Western LLS LLS and EMU™ #phenomenal

This is the start of a new beginning for these claypans that have had banks put up and water ponded on them. See the sodic layer has dissolved and the clay is starting to crack as a normal clay would.

Talking #soilcarbon and #legumes at Tooraweenah. Nothing beats being in the paddock where you can see the carbon growing in front of your eyes! Plenty of hard seeded legumes on show to drive N-Fix and C-seq, and check out the #soilbuilding potential of this multi-species crop!

More multi-species examples to boost soil health - this time in Katherine (NT)! Very fortunate to be on the road for the TNRM Soil Symposium talking with farmers about strategies to build soil carbon.Keep up with the farmer innovation! Soil sister

A great day in the NT spent near Katherine with @territorynrm and Dr Susan Orgill looking at innovative ways to love territory soils by maintaining diverse groundcover. Check out those nodules! Soil Science Australia

Soil carbon underpins landscape productivity across our diverse country. Sharing evidence and strategies to build and protect soil carbon in all landscapes, including stunning Alice Springs, with farmers and TNRM. Soil sister

Sitting in #Sydney with only 20 h until next flight home, reminiscing on last week. Thanks TNRM, Soil Science Australia, EAL and Dr Susan Orgill for letting me get #regenerativeagriculture, a sermon and a mass pledge out of my system. All #soil and #soilhealth, no bull.

This International Day of #ruralwomen I am fortunate to be in Vietnam collaborating with inspirational young women to identify new crops & markets to help farmers adapt to saline conditions and climate change in the Mekong Delta. Cảm ơn ACIAR

Sharing soil ❤️ presenting @ #TNRM2022 conference Darwin. Favourite quotes; connect with country, life brings life, sponsor diversity, livestock as macrobes, just get out of the way! Soil Will Save Us. Oh and how cute is NT soil baby!?!

#AgDay Powering the Australian economy, Suz Orgill at Canberra Soils For Life

#AgDay Did you know that each year the average Aussie farmer feeds 400 Australians, and 600 people around the globe?