Monitoring your soil health, building your confidence - Webinar with Dr Jessica Rigg

Soil biology monitoring can help us to learn more about the impact our management decisions are having on soil microbes - the life in our soil.

Learning how to monitor allows you to track and tell the story of your soil and landscape health and management. It is a skill that helps you spot patterns, track changes and build confidence that your farm decisions are having a real impact on the health of your soil, plants and landscape. The more you notice and track, the more confident you can be in adjusting practices, reducing inputs and sharing the story of your farm with your customers and community.

This webinar will equip you to understand more about soil biology and monitoring options, both in the lab and in the field. You will be able to choose the best methods for what you want to know.

Guest speaker Dr Jessica Rigg of Impact Agriculture will share her expertise. We will cover: 

• Major soil biology groups

• Soil biology lab tests: What you can measure, why and what do the results mean, and how they can be used. 

• What people can measure themselves in the field (e.g. observe meso and macro fauna, nodules on legumes, cotton strip or tea bag assays, DIY solvita burst tests- respiration). 

Soils for Life is launching its Soil, plant and landscape health monitoring guide late September to get farmers started with monitoring practices. Leading up to that launch we’ve invited some speakers to share their experiences and the benefits that are gained through paying attention in a more deliberate way, capturing what you see and letting the land (and the data) tell you what’s working. 

Join us, and start building your soil monitoring skills.

This webinar is supported by the James N Kirby Foundation.