High strength soils and compaction-related issues create challenging growing conditions for crops across Australia’s western and southern grain growing regions by reducing root growth and restricting access to soil nutrients and water. While a lot of attention has been focused on soil amelioration strategies to maximise production in problematic soils, Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has invested into a new project which aims to provide an alternative solution for managing these soils.
GRDC have invested in a new project which aims to discover the best crop types for high strength soils. Picture Mark Saunders.
Project lead Dr Yash Dang, from The University of Queensland, said the team's focus is on discovering crops and varieties with the greatest ability to penetrate high strength soils, which root traits are...
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