Soil and Land Management
Soil and Land Management
The resources on this page are of relevance to SA farmers and regional communities. They assist in decision making and potential practice change to build drought preparedness and resilience. Further information on soil and land management is available through the SA Drought Hub team, including the Knowledge Broker and the SA Regional Soils Coordinator.
The Future Drought Fund’s Drought Self Assessment Tool (DR.SAT)
The Future Drought Fund’s Drought Self Assessment Tool (DR.SAT) is free and enables users to:
- Undertake satellite image and NDVI comparison of their properties between different dates
- Obtain climatic projections and long-term trends for their property
- Assess the farm business’s current resilience to drought in the areas of economic, social and environmental management
- Set goals for building drought resilience.
The Future Drought Fund’s My Climate View (formerly Climate Services for Agriculture)
The Future Drought Fund’s My Climate View (formerly Climate Services for Agriculture) tool provides users with location-specific information on seasonal and monthly rainfall outlooks, and medium and longer term climate projections for rainfall and temperature.
The tool can be accessed at: myclimateview.com.au.
Soils of South Australia – SA Department of Environment and Water
Resources from the SA Department of Environment and Water about soils and soil regions of SA. Includes the comprehensive publication Soils of Southern South Australia (2009) to download as pdf.
Department for Environment and Water – Soils of South Australia
Soil Health & Feedbase Resillience – Australian Wool Innovation
These Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) resources on soils and soil health include information on projects about:
- P-efficient pasture systems
- Dryland legume pasture systems
- Acid soils
- Phosohorus application.
Soil Health & Feedbase Resilience | Australian Wool Innovation
Protect next season’s profits with summer weed control – GRDC
Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) informs growers who experienced rainfall over summer how to protect their future profits by making weed control a priority ahead of planting in autumn.
The GRDC summer weed control webpage includes links to the following GRDC resources:
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