Tonnes of benefits from spading poor paddocks

Alisha Fogden
Updated July 18 2016 - 8:44am, first published 6:30am
SOIL STRENGTH: Kimba cropper Trevor Cliff in a wheat paddock that was spaded this year to incorporate clay and organic matter into the soil.
SOIL STRENGTH: Kimba cropper Trevor Cliff in a wheat paddock that was spaded this year to incorporate clay and organic matter into the soil.

WHEN harvesting a newly-purchased property in 2011, Kimba cropper Trevor Cliff said his yield monitor did a strange thing.

Alisha Fogden

Alisha Fogden

senior journalist, cropping editor at Stock Journal

Journalist at Australian Community Media newspapers since 2007.

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