Australia: Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms July 2007

Health Soils for Sustainable Farming Proceedings July 2007
Australia.

Farming soils in the southern agricultural region of Western Australia – Gradyn Wilcox
14 . . . . Healthy soils – lessons learned from history can take us ‘back to the future’ –Tim Reeves
18 . . . . The international perspective – knowledge gained through long term trials and established agriculture –Olle Andren
22 . . . . Prioritising the properties of soil structure – David McKenzie
27 . . . . You and your soil – getting the chemistry right in your relationship – Chris Dowling
38 . . . . Soil biology – Dan Murphy
46 . . . . Keeping nitrogen under control – Charlie Walker
55 . . . . Landscape changes start with changes in ourselves – David Marsh
64 . . . . Snapshot – Peter Jackson
67 . . . . Defining soil carbon – Jeff Baldock
74 . . . . Management practices for building soil carbon – John Kirkegaard
79 . . . . Decision support for identification and management of subsoil constraints – Yash Dang
89 . . . . What do some of the new tools tell us about carbon? – Pauline Mele
92 . . . . Carbon farming – facts and fiction – Peter Grace
100 . . . Australian farming practices – Better for soil, better for productivity – Alan Umbers
111 . . . Learning from long term experiments – what do they teach us? – Rob Norton
120 . . . Crunching the numbers - Brooke White
130 . . . A farmer perspective – does it pay to be healthy? - Martin Hockey
131 . . . How far has soil health come in the cotton industry? – Guy Roth
140 . . . Sheep meat industries – supporting soil health – Bob Hannam
146 . . . What is the dairy industry doing to ensure it sustains its soils? - Warwick Dougherty
150 . . . Soil health – what’s going on in horticulture? – Doris Blaesing
155 . . . Bridging the gap between scientists and farmers – Albert Rovira