In January, our team held a two-day planning session to ensure the Soil Wealth ICP project continues to deliver value for vegetable growers in 2026. We focused on our demonstration sites, events and training, resource development and communications activities, and explored four focus topics for the coming year. They include:
  • Soil health: Biology and microbiome
  • Crop health: Integrated pest, disease and weed management
  • Input use: Waste
  • Carbon and climate: Resilient production systems.
We also visited our Oakdale, New South Wales demonstration site hosted by Phil Bartolo, which is focusing on optimising nitrogen supply for a brassica crop through strategic use of legume and cereal cover crops.
The field visit included a technical training session on nutrient management with agronomist Mike Titley – find out one of his tips for cabbage plant tissue sampling in the video below.