Healthy Soils For Sustainable Vegetable Farms

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Healthy Soils For Sustainable Vegetable Farms

• Tools and Extension

Jim Kelly Dr Alison AndersonHelena Whitman
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Training Tools

• Ute Guide DVD Training
  Notes

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Ute Guide

• Easy to read, pictorial soil management reference
  for the Australian Vegetable Industry
• Objectives
• To increase your awareness of Ideal Soil
  Conditions
• To have the knowledge and confidence to ask the
  right questions
• To implement appropriate management strategies to
  correct soil problems
• 8500 copies have been distributed to the wider
  industry

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Ideal Soil
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Reference Soil Profiles
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Soil Property Checklist

• Handy checklist of soil properties that can be
  measured on-farm or in a laboratory
• Provides a brief reason of the importance of each
  soil property
• Will assist when interpreting soil test results

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Threshold Graphics
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Soil Awareness Day

• Have been delivered in the many of the major
  vegetable growing regions
• Stanthorpe (Qld) Sydney (NSW)
• Northern Adelaide Plains (SA) Myalup (WA)
• Darwin (NT) Werribee (Vic)
• Mildura/Dareton (Vic/NSW) Myrtleford (Vic)
• If you would like a workshop conducted in your
  region contact the AUSVEG Environmental Manager
  Helena

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Soil Awarenessday
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Soil Analysis Report
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DVD

• Handy tool which demonstrates how to assess soil
  properties on-farm
• How-to reminder after Soil Awareness Day
• Also for those who were unable to attend Soil
  Awareness Days

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Australian Vegetable Industry Soil and Land
Management Knowledge Exchange
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Rationale

• To provide the Australian Vegetable Industry with
  a trusted reference tool
• There are over 1000 Australian resources on the
  site sourced from credible organisations backed
  by Australian research
• To archive resources
• To build confidence
• In managing soil on-farm
• In using the web
• Improve growers critical review skills

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Knowledge Exchange Structure
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What is to come?

• On-line client profile
• Search mapping
• Improved search functions
• Developed as user confidence increases
• Developed as site use increases
• Information alerts
• Emails

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