UnlockSoilOAs

Unlocking the true value of organic soil amendments, an innovative farm ready tool for the effective management of manures & composts.

[CeRRF_Griffith @CeRRF_Griffith]

Want to know about large scale ag industry #Composting?
Register for the Great Aussie Composting Roadshow!
In Griffith 9th March, 10am Quest Hotel, Railway St
International, National and local speakers and industry experts
https://t.co/iQJq4RR2iD
https://t.co/DDfD7Rb14F
#NLP

[CeRRF_Griffith @CeRRF_Griffith]

Have been busy testing a #buildyourown irrigation automation system using our #Alfie wifi farm automation controller. Working well, very low cost, and includes some neat functionality we will show in coming weeks! @DAFFgov @RiceExtension @ricegrowers

[David Rowlings @RowlingsDavid]

For those contemplating high urea prices and wet clay soils unfortunately our nitrogen losses can be quite high, >26% lost! Our new paper out looking at the fate of urea across 9 sorghum trials with @dr_dirt_oz @FriedlJohannes @DanieleDeRosa_7 and #GRDC.
https://t.co/Y2hTY0xJlk

[UnlockSoilOAs @UnlockSoilOAs]

High-tech manure https://t.co/eu2gFoE8vh

[UnlockSoilOAs @UnlockSoilOAs]

The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture “Sustainable Land Use: Food Security Starts with the Soil” is a virtual event from 24 - 28 January and free to attend. Check out the program (https://t.co/nQpOKdyjzr) and sign up here: https://t.co/bb8nkLQbOJ?

[Journal of Environmental Quality @JEnvironQual]

Recent study highlighted the environmental benefit of combining organic amendments reduced fertilizer rate in vegetable crop production in Australia, but further economic incentives are needed to promote use of composts. @UnockSoilOAs @DanieleDeRosa_7
https://t.co/j9tmi3X0J4

[CeRRF_Griffith @CeRRF_Griffith]

Free webinar on phosphorus supply from chicken litter and other organic amendments at 3 pm today.
Please register with [email protected]
@CottonInfoAust @IRECNSW @UnlockSoilOAs

[Elaine Mitchell QUT @Carbon_Lass]

Important constraints on soil organic carbon formation efficiency @RowlingsDavid
https://t.co/De9ML7W21H

[UnlockSoilOAs @UnlockSoilOAs]

Great paper from one of our science leads - using organic amendments from source to sink, environmental, agronomic and economic trade-offs

[Journal of Environmental Quality @JEnvironQual]

Environmental and economic trade-offs of using composted or stockpiled manure as partial substitute for synthetic fertilizer - study by De Rosa et al. https://t.co/j9tmi3FpRw #OpenAccess @UnockSoilOAs @DanieleDeRosa_7

[Dr. Jackie Webb @JackieRWebb]

Lots of field time happening! We hand-picked my 15N-fertilizer chook litter cotton trial, managing to beat the rain. Hand-picked yields from microplots ranging from 9.2 to 15.8 bales/ha equivalents. Thanks @WendyQuayle1 @Matt_Champness and @CeRRF_Griffith team for field help.

[John Stevenson @cropmad]

This just feels weird after a life time of residue management woes 🤷🏻‍♂️

[CeRRF_Griffith @CeRRF_Griffith]

Bolls opened up to the top in the south. Lots of very busy farmers in the Murrumbidgee Valley. Will pick our 15N urea-and P availability chicken litter trials in the next few days.
@UnlockSoilOAs @CottonResearch

[Dr. Jackie Webb @JackieRWebb]

Presenting at the @SoilScienceAust Riverina Branch workshop in Yanco today. Some interesting findings from our snap shot #soilhealth survey on what drives the soil CO2 flux in these fields. @CeRRF_Griffith @CottonResearch @UnlockSoilOAs @WendyQuayle1

[UnlockSoilOAs @UnlockSoilOAs]

@RowlingsDavid @DanieleDeRosa_7 @WendyQuayle1 @JohannesBiala @SustainableAg_ @LandcareAust @annabelleramsay

[UnlockSoilOAs @UnlockSoilOAs]

#Nitrogen is on the global agenda with @UnlockSoilOAs researchers speaking at an international conference on #poultry_litter in #cotton production, #organic_amendment use in vegetable production & nitrous oxide emissions from horticultural crops. go https://t.co/8WCfV6AwW3

[CeRRF_Griffith @CeRRF_Griffith]

Jackie Webb describing N and P release from chicken litter amendments in cotton using Plant Root Simulator probes @Western_Ag. Pulse of N at incorporation. Pulse of P, 2 months later. @CottonInfoAust @UnlockSoilOAs @CottonResearch #NLP

[CeRRF_Griffith @CeRRF_Griffith]

Update on substitution of MAP for chicken litter in cotton by our post-doc Rakesh Awale. Need 10t/ha litter for 150 kg/ha MAP in grey clay soils. @IRECNSW @WendyQuayle1 @CottonInfoAust @UnlockSoilOAs @CottonResearch

[Johannes Biala @JohannesBiala]

... and the glasshouse trials with granulated / pelletised compost products are now also under way. Trying to emulate planting with an airseeder in the glasshouse is no mean feat!

[Johannes Biala @JohannesBiala]

Finally, four months after applying novel compost products, finally planting a sorghum crop in a large-scale field trial on the Darling Downs.

[CeRRF_Griffith @CeRRF_Griffith]

How much chicken litter to put on and when? @IRECNSW field day!
Field trials at Carathool and Benerembah showing rates and timing of P release and P buffering index from chicken litter amendments @JackieRWebb @CottonResearch @UnlockSoilOAs #NLPSmartFarms #sustainability