Moisture probes offer BIGG scope

Jacinta Rose
Updated December 31 2015 - 8:54am, first published April 23 2014 - 4:00am
PASTURE FOCUS: Barossa Improved Grazing Group technical facilitator Brett Nietschke and Keyneton farmer Graham Keynes at a demonstration weather station – it can measure soil moisture, temperature, humidity and rainfall – on Mr Keynes’ property.
PASTURE FOCUS: Barossa Improved Grazing Group technical facilitator Brett Nietschke and Keyneton farmer Graham Keynes at a demonstration weather station – it can measure soil moisture, temperature, humidity and rainfall – on Mr Keynes’ property.

THE use of soil moisture monitoring technology is becoming more common in cropping operations and almost standard in viticulture but remains an unexplored frontier in grazing systems.

Jacinta Rose

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