DPIRD soil scientist Dr Gaus Azam in a trial plot at Meckering, where blue sky reengineering research is breaking barriers to yield potential.
Research Priorities
- Soil amelioration
- Soil re-engineering
- Sodic soils
- Post-amelioration management
- Crop nutrition
Priority Projects
- Predicting Nitrogen Cycling and losses in Australian cropping systems - augmenting measurements to enhance modelling
- Re-engineering soils to improve the access of crop root systems to water and nutrients stored in the subsoil
- Prolonging profitability and longevity following soil amelioration
- Increased grower profitability on soils with sodicity and transient salinity in the eastern grainbelt of the Western Region
- On-farm soil acidity and nutrient management (Watering WA Clean Waterways)