Acid soils rob yield potential

Alisha Fogden
February 24 2017 - 7:30am
ADVICE: Rural Solutions SA's Brian Hughes at the GRDC grains research update in Adelaide recently, where he talked about ways to stop soil acidity being a ‘yield thief’.
ADVICE: Rural Solutions SA's Brian Hughes at the GRDC grains research update in Adelaide recently, where he talked about ways to stop soil acidity being a ‘yield thief’.

GROWERS need to be wary that the extent and severity of soil acidity is increasing under high yielding continuously cropped farming systems, according to Rural Solutions SA sustainable agriculture principal consultant Brian Hughes.

Alisha Fogden

Alisha Fogden

senior journalist, cropping editor at Stock Journal

Journalist at Australian Community Media newspapers since 2007.

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