Production and Environment Partnerships

Production and Environment Partnerships

Project Overview

Ag Excellence Alliance is leading an innovative project to bring together grains industry and natural resources management (NRM) people to work together in extending sustainable farm practices on key production issues that have clear environmental outcomes. The project is working with seven NRM/CMA/LLS regions and five farming systems groups across South Australia, Victoria and NSW to identify their production issues, and then to develop and deliver an extension and communications program to address the issues.

See Project brochure here

Timeframe

1 April 2014 – 31 December 2016

Project Outcomes

Comparing Break Crop Performance in the SA Mallee

Downloads:

‘Guidelines to managing sandy soils across low-rainfall regions of south-eastern Australia’
– Practical strategies to optimise productivity, profitability and environmental sustainability

Download the entire publication here OR the individual chapters below:

Introduction

Chapter 1_Understanding sandy soils

Chapter 2_Water repellent soils

Chapter 3_Crop nutrition in sandy soils

Chapter 4_soil-borne root diseases

Chapter 5_Weed control on sandy soils

Chapter 6_Managing erosion on sandy soils

Chapter 7_Managing frost risk

Chapter 8_Managing local seeps

Chapter 9_Subsurface compaction

Mallee Region

A Compendium

Current and recent broad acre sandy soils projects in the South Australian Mallee

Click here to download case studies of current and recent broad acre sandy soils projects in the South Australian Mallee. Developed by Mallee Sustainable Farming through “Production and Environment Partnerships”, an Ag Excellence project funded by the Grains Research & Development Corporation.

Tri-state Forum

2015 Mallee Sustainable Farming (MSF)

See presentations here and the forum booklet here

Eyre Peninsula

Case Study – Variable Rate Technology on Dune Swale Systems

Kerran & Mel Glover (Lock Farmers)

Grower Guide – Assessing Legume Nodulation on the Upper EP

Download the flyer here

National Landcare Conference presentation

Jen Lillecrapp delivered a presentation to the National Landcare Conference in Melbourne, in September 2014. See Jen’s conference paper here

Click here download the power point presentation

Communication & Extension Plan

The project is working with seven NRM/CMA/LLS regions and five farming systems groups across South Australia, Victoria and NSW to identify their production issues, and then to develop and deliver an extension and communications program to address the issues.

Workshop Outcomes

Communication & Extension Plan