Learn about maximising crop returns through improved soil health and input use efficiency!
Soil Wealth ICP team member Dr Kelvin Montagu will take you through the following topics:
- 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 and soil biology.
This event will be delivered by Soil Wealth ICP, PotatoLink and VegNET.