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New Horizons the Next Revolution in Agriculture - Nigel Wilhelm, SARDI
- 1. New Horizons Releasing the Productive Potential across 40% of South Australia MSF Research Forum February 2015 Nigel Wilhelm
- 2. What are the soil issues? • Poorly structured, low fertility sandy soils • Poorly structured clay sub-soils • Alkaline soils • Acid soils • Boron toxicity • Salinity
- 3. Potential for yield increase
- 4. What are the soil issues? • Poorly structured, low fertility sandy soils • Poorly structured clay sub-soils • Alkaline soils • Acid soils • Boron toxicity • Salinity
- 5. What is New Horizons? Managing the top 50 cm of soil, rather than the top 10 cm
- 6. What is New Horizons?
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- 26. Where to now ? • The sandy soil trials will be re-sown in 2015 for residual benefits • Sensible costing of benefits • Sodic heavy soil situation tackled next
Editor's Notes
- Our Premier has just launched 10 economic development priorities … of which Premium food and wine produced in our clean environment and exported to the world is number 2 priority Identified the food and wine industry and the environment
- Green is sandy soils Blue it sodic 4.1million hectares of affected soils ….. To give it some context, the Shandong Province is approximately 15 million hectares This could add 25% to our agriculture production is we turn these soils into productive land
- This new technology involves a mix of fundamental and applied research, site trials comparing treatments, and guidelines to fast track adoption of the new soil management techniques.
- This new technology involves a mix of fundamental and applied research, site trials comparing treatments, and guidelines to fast track adoption of the new soil management techniques.
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