| Researcher(s) |
Natalie Hogg (DAFWA) Frances Hoyle (DAFWA) Felicity Taylor (Facey Group) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2013 |
| Contributor | Facey Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Tincurrin, WA
|
To identify on-farm management strategies to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) and quantify any associated risks and benefits in a grain production system. In this trial the NSPNR wanted to detrmine whether: Altering inputs to increase plant biomass would subsequently increase soil carbon, and amending soils with compost would increase soil carbon storage or provide agronomic benefits.
| Lead research organisation |
Department of Agriculture and Food WA |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation |
Facey Group |
| Trial funding source | GRDC |
| Trial funding source | Australian Government |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
This project is led by the Department of Agriculture & Food WA in collaboration with the FACEY Group and is supported by funding from the Australian Government.Thanks to the FACEY group and their growers, in particular Wade Hinkley and the FACEY staff for their continued interest and support for this project and management of the trial site. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | None: No crop specified |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 140m x 10m |
| Plot replication | 4 |
| Fertiliser |
100KG/ha Super and Potash 2:1 |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Soil organic carbon (0 - 10cm) (%) | Soil organic carbon (10 - 20cm) (%) | Soil organic carbon (20 - 30cm) (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Nil compost (control) | 1.45 | 0.54 | 0.39 |
| 2 | █ Compost 1 t/ha | 1.42 | 0.66 | 0.34 |
| 3 | █ Compost 2 t/ha | 1.3 | 0.54 | 0.35 |
| 4 | █ Compost 3 t/ha | 1.15 | 0.49 | 0.39 |
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