Field Event: Sustainable Soil Management

Join our field event where you will gain insights on how to maximise crop returns through improved soil health and input use efficiency.

Topics include:

• Rotations - breaking the cropping cycle with cover crops, how to choose the right species, considerations for timing of planting, termination and termination methods.
• Managing the cost of inputs - with a focus on nitrogen, nitrogen budgeting, the use of legumes to supply nitrogen.
• Soil biology - its functions in the soil, practices that build it and degrade it, tools for measuring it, understanding it (including its challenges).
• Improving soil health - reduced tillage, building soil organic matter, structure, infiltration, soil biology.

Just added: Horsch Cultro TC - double knife roller. The Cultro TC is highly efficient at crushing catch-crop populations to ultra-shallow stubble cultivation, with very low fuel consumption. Read more about the technical specifications here.

Meet the presenter:

Dr Kelvin Montagu, Soil Wealth Integrated Crop Protection (SWICP)

If you’ve got a question about cover crops or tillage, look no further than Kelvin. Kelvin works closely with growers to trial cover crops and biofumigants and examine their impacts on soil health; he also has extensive knowledge of soil biology and how growers can improve their irrigation and water management.

Get in touch:

For more information, contact:

• Naomi Diplock, PotatoLink on 0403 740 123 or naomi.diplock@ahr.com.au 
• Jessy Logan, VegNET on 0407 366 797 or vegnet@bfvg.com.au

The event will also include a light lunch. Registrations are essential. Address will be emailed closer to the event date.

This event is hosted by Soil Wealth ICP, VegNET Wide Bay Burnett, PotatoLink and funded by Horticulture Innovation Australia Limited (Hort Innovation) using potato industry levies and the vegetable industry levy.