Graeme and Heather Fagg, daughter Annie-May and son Tom manage a 4,000 head, 18.5-micron merino flock and 2,000 crossbred prime lamb property at Mt Mercer, near Ballarat, Victoria.

Looking for ways to boost their feedbase to supply quality nutrition to their flock year-round, the Gollop family became one of four host properties involved in the ‘Precision soil mapping in central Victorian pastures’ Producers Demonstration Site (PDS) program.

In SA’s upper southeast sandy country, persistent water repellence issues and poor crop establishment have limited productivity. However, targeted soil amelioration at Booderoo – a mixed cropping and grazing enterprise near Coomandook – is helping to turn things around.

Soil is the largest carbon pool that humans can directly influence, offering the greatest potential to deal with global warming. Carbon storage in soil can improve the productivity, profitability, drought tolerance and biodiversity of grazing land. CSIRO developed a prototype soil core scanning system (SCANS unit) to measure soil organic...

The 'Five Easy Steps' allows producers and advisors to understand the value of soil testing and how to use soil test information to plan fertiliser and livestock investments.

Sam and Kirsty White operate Bald Blair Pastoral Co, an Angus cattle seedstock herd backed by their own commercial Angus cattle herd. Consisting of four properties in the Northern Tablelands of NSW, Sam is a seasoned soil tester and has been soil testing every year for almost 30 years on his Bald Blair and more recently purchased Kolora property.

For WA producer, Don McNab soil testing has enabled him to refine his fertiliser strategy and save costs while maintaining pasture productivity.

Soil carbon testing as part of a MLA-funded project has found growing lucerne and rotational grazing can lift soil carbon levels above those found under adjoining heritage scrub.

Red meat producers across southern Australia can now access tips and tools to help undertake on-farm soil testing with the launch of a new soils hub on Meat & Livestock Australia’s (MLA) website.