This project aims to establish field sites which demonstrate amelioration techniques that growers can use to address the specific sandy soil constraints for their local landscape type and where in the landscape different tactics are best deployed.  

• The grain yield response to physical treatments (deep ripping and spading) and CL were typically greater than 10%, but the ranking of treatments varied at each of the sandy soil trial sites.  
• The use of short and long inclusion plates (without CL) did not provide any yield benefit compared to deep ripping with no inclusion plates at any of the three sites in year one.  
• Spading created a soft soil surface at seeding time, resulting in a deeper seeding depth at all sites. The wheat crop struggled to emerged and a lower NDVI was observed as well as reduced grain yields compared to the other physical treatments at some sites.   
• At two out of the three sites, deep ripping to depth of 40 cm was sufficient to achieve maximum grain yield improvement. At the third site higher grain yields resulted from deeper ripping to 60 cm.