Soil Quality Courses is here! A FREE online learning platform focused on soil and plant #nutrition. Co-investment by GRDC and @murdoch.edu.au: courses.soilqualityknowledgebase.org.au #SQKB #GRDCUpdates #graingrowers #soilnews #soilscience #soilresearch #SoilQualityCourses
An image (video still) showing the water-holding capacity of soils that have been amended with different amounts of organic matter. From Soil Quality: 3 Soil Organic Matter (Hoyle and Murphy 2018)
Active roots, living organisms, root exudates, decomposing plant & animal material, humus, charcoal. You find these in #soil organic matter. Here's how #SOM benefits #soilfunction & fertility: soilqualityknowledgebase.org.au/soil-organic... #NationalScienceWeek #soilscience #SQKB @murdoch.edu.au
An image (video still) of a soil bolus. From Soil Quality: 2 Integrated Soil Management (Pluske et al. 2018)
Happy #NationalScienceWeek! Here are the steps to hand-texturing #soil - an important experiment that ANYONE can do. What does your soil tell you? soilqualityknowledgebase.org.au/soil-texture... #SQKB #soilscience
Prevention of #soilcompaction is better than the cure. However, already compacted soils can be remediated by several management practices: soilqualityknowledgebase.org.au/soil-compact... #SQKB
Image showing the Soil Quality Knowledge Base website on handset and desktop
#Soilacidity is an economic and natural resource threat throughout the south-western ag region of WA. It is est. more than 14m ha of #soil are acidic or at risk of becoming acidic to the point of restricting production: soilqualityknowledgebase.org.au/soil-acidity/ #SQKB
