Tom Lines

Research into cover crops, soil, carbon and ecosystem services at the University of Adelaide. Never ask me about paragliding. he/him

[FAO Land, Soil and Water @FAOLandWater]

#Soil pollution impacts 🍎the food we eat💨the air we breathe and 💦the water we drink!

Learn about the costs of remediation and its alarming increase over time in the Global Assessment of Soil Pollution: https://t.co/yHl48uycSx

#SoilHealth
Be the solution to #SoilPollution

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Cracking start to our new cover cropping trial in Loxton at the Almond Centre of Excellence (@AusAlmonds). Funded by @Hort_Au

[Nebraska Natural Resources Conservation Service @NebraskaNRCS]

Our West Point office came across this photo from 1960. The caption says, "... (farmer) drills in a cover crop of rye and vetch in late August each year. Drill was built in farm shop. This cropping system has been used for the past 7 years. Yields have increased each year.” #TBT

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

@SASoilScience @ABCRural @soilpED @em_ley @kateematthewsss @danielpfitz Crushing it!

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Cracking morning yesterday presenting our vineyard soil carbon results to growers with @jnjmarks . Thanks to the friendship fund (@AgrifoodUoA and @The_AWRI) for funding the work. Webinar to come.

[Bahareh Bicharanloo @bahar_usyd]

Just published:
https://t.co/jbMISZFjYM.
Thanks to @AustPlantPhenom for awarding research scholarship, facilities, and scientific support.
@IDigSoil @WurzelKosmos @Thomas_Lines

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

@Tractor_Tread What are you putting in Steve?

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Very excited to have seed in the ground for our cover cropping trial across SA and NSW! Bring on the rain! @Hort_Au @AusAlmonds @UniofAdelaide

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

@stuartbuck1 @robbensinger @moskov @adamdangelo @ESYudkowsky @ylecun @jasoncrawford It's more the burger flippin' maximiser that I'm worried about..

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

@WurzelKosmos You get the NOBEL prize -

N: Nitrogen
O: Optimal
B: Blending
E: Estimation
L: Lines
(ChatGPT for the terrible acronym)

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

@BobaStojkovic Grew the seedlings in a greenhouse. For this species, it was more a proof of concept than actual trial. Given the price of grapes I'd be considering taking up commercial Kennedia production.

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Worth $2000/kg for the seed…

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Stoked to see my hand planted Kennedia prostata producing seed in the Riverland at our under-vine trial site!

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

@AndrewWalladge These were planted in an already germinated/growing grass mix from seeding natives - wallaby, kangaroo, spear grass.

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Stoked to see my hand planted Kennedia prostata producing seed in the Riverland at our under-vine trial site!

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

How high are we looking? 220GL/d or trying to break the '56 record? Asking for a friend 😨

[Luke Mosley @envir_scientist]

@cutabove77 @em_ley It is not looking good….

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Great to get out to @LakeBreezeWines yesterday for a chat with @langhornecreek growers & vignerons.

[Tim Cavagnaro @IDigSoil]

Doing the double act in Langhorne Creek with @Thomas_Lines on our under vine management and soil carbon work funded by @WineAustralia. Photo: @langhornecreek

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

One of the hairier huntsmen I’ve seen…

[Hannah Thwaites @hannah_thwaites]

Be part of this exciting, new @UniofAdelaide research (my PhD!) investigating household urban agriculture, community resilience and climate change!
All SA metropolitan residents 18+ are eligible to complete our online survey (thank you!)
https://t.co/Gepf1PqIZq

[Tom Lines @Thomas_Lines]

Great practice Ben! That’s impressive biomass.

[Ben Lacey @laceyvineyards]

The results after crip rolling the cover crop. Plenty of soil cover for summer.