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Soil zone mapping and variable rate application (VRA) for drought resilience and preparedness
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Soil zone mapping and variable rate application (VRA) for drought resilience and preparedness
Lead organisation: Agricultural Bureau of South Australia
Hub members and partners involved: Peninsula Precision Ag, Northern and Yorke Landscape Board
Project Category: Hub Projects
Project summary: 

The objectives of the project are to:

  • Increase the awareness, knowledge and understanding of soils and soil nutrition to land managers throughout SA;
  • Increase farmers skills to enable farmers to suitably sample, analyse, monitor and interpret soils within zones to improve their decisions to improve soil health and improve the resilience and sustainability of crops and pastures;
  • Testing and adoption of technologies (NDVI, pH and EC mapping, grid mapping) that will assist growers to drive innovation and prepare for drought, build on farm resilience to drought and manage farm operations leading into and during dry years / drought.