Riverina
Meet our Committee
President: Jason Condon
Email: RIV.president@soilscienceaustralia.org.au
Vice President: Susan Orgill
Email: RIV.vicepresident@soilscienceaustralia.org.au
Secretary: Brooke Kaveney
Email: RIV.secretary@soilscienceaustralia.org.au
Treasurer: Guangdi Li
Email: RIV.treasurer@soilscienceaustralia.org.au
Publicity: Mark Conyers
Contact
Contact RIV@soilscienceaustralia.org.au
State Soil
The Red Chromosol is the State Soil of New South Wales. Also known as red brown earths, red podzolic soils or ded duplex soils, Red Chromosols feature a strong texture contrast between the A and B horizons. They are distinguised from other texture contrast soils by not being strongly acidic like Kurosols or sodic like Sodosols in their upper B horizons. In their natural condition these soils have favourable physical and chemical properties, but many now have hardsetting surface layers with structural degredation and acidification problems caused by long term cultivation. They occupy some 20 percent of the state and are used for grazing, cropping and vineyards. they have been described as the ‘workhorse of agriculture’ in New South Wales.
Riverina/NSW/SA Robinvale Workshop 2019
Riverina/NSW Joint Branch Meeting 2019
Watch Dr Peter Bacon CPSS from Woodlots and Wetlands Pty Ltd present on environmental water flows.
PART ONE
PART TWO
Social aspects of managing soils (Australia, environmental flows (Edward-Wakool) and groundwater (Pakistan)
Watch Associate Professor Catherine Allan from Charles Sturt University and the SoilCRC present on the social aspects of managing soils (Australia, environmental flows (Edward-Wakool) and groundwater (Pakistan).
Nitrification Inhibitors and Soils pH
Watch Brooke Kaveney from Charles Sturt University present on nitrification inhibitors and soils pH.
Amelioration of sub-surface acidity with organic matter and lime
Watch Han Nguyen from Charles Sturt University present on the amelioration of sub-surface acidicty with organic matter and lime.
Soil Science Australia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future.