The impact of regenerative agriculture on soil microbial management: Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board – SA (Video)
In this Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board video, Gupta Vadakattu (CSIRO) reports on the findings of an on-farm research project conducted with Birchip Cropping Group and CSIRO. It highlighted the importance of soil biology in building resilience in low rainfall farming systems on sandy loamy soils. Microbes play a vital role in drought resilience, disease suppression, and nutrient cycling. The aim of the project was to understand how regenerative agriculture practices impact soil biology, productivity and resilience. The study was conducted on 35 paddocks in South Australian and Victorian Mallee regions. It found that practices like no-till farming, groundcover retention, and crop diversification improved soil biology, resilience, and productivity. While the video focuses on a southern Mallee context, it explains how soil microbial communities function generally and how their biomass and activity can be measured [29:00]. Mark Farrell delivered another presentation about this project, Microbial management and regenerative agriculture in soil (2022) [18:28].#
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