From the Ground Up

Rhiannon Sandford - Project Coordinator – Land Health

From the Ground Up project Achievments 2018-2023

Presented by David Smith from Australian National University’s Sustainable Farms Project. Enhancing natural assets such as remnant vegetation, shelterbelts and farm dams on farms has many benefits for biodiversity, production, and landscape resilience. This presentation will share the learnings from two decades of ecological monitoring on farms. Dave will discuss the different restoration interventions that can be made (plantings, remnant protection and enhancement, noisy miner control) and their relative effectiveness

The benefits of restoring habitat on farms

Presented by Zelin Li (PhD student of Veterinary and Agriculture Science Melbourne University). This project aimed to better understand the fundamental farm productivity benefits from having shelterbelts and to answer how soil health and pasture production changes as the distance away from shelterbelts increases in a paddock. Project was overseen by Dr Paul Cheng Senior Lecturer in Livestock Nutrition and Grazing Management.

Shelterbelt to improve production - The impacts of shelterbelts on soil health and production

Increasing soil carbon to ameliorate compaction in irrigated soils. Presented by Damian Jones Trial Manger for Irrigated Cropping Council

Increasing soil carbon to ameliorate compaction in irrigated soils

Presented by Vanessa Malandrin Project Coordinator for Hughes Creek Catchment Collaborative.

Assessment and modelling of soil carbon profiles in Hughes Creek Catchment

Presented by Jane McInnes Senior Project Manager from Riverine Plains Inc.

Quantifying the carbon gains from mixed cropping systems

Managing sub-surface irrigation system impacts on soil acidity. Presented by Liz Mann from Maize Association of Australia

  Sub-surface irrigation and acidic soils

Validating grazing effects on soil nutrients on farms

Presented by Peter Righetti Chairperson for the Strathbogie Tableland Landcare Group.

Trial to measure the benefits of soil moisture and pasture growth from deep cultivaition at Strathbogie

Presented by Dan Walker Project Officer for the Goulburn Murray Landcare Network.

  Growing regenerative farming systems

Presented by Sally Day Project Officer for Greta Valley Landcare

Planning where and how to integrate paddock trees on farms

Presented by Dr Dorin Gupta Senior Lecturer (Sustainable Agriculture) from Melbourne University

Native crops in changing climate -Associate Prof Dorin Gupta