Cropping Fact Sheets

Broadacre Cropping
Compost can improve overall soil health when incorporated into the soil or surface-applied as a soil conditioner. Despite differing in nutrient requirements, crops such as wheat, barley, oats, maize, canola, lucerne and sorghum can all benefit from the addition of pasteurised and composted organic materials... Read more... (375KB PDF)

Pasture Cropping
Fertiliser is one of the main inputs and costs in pasture production systems. Inorganic fertilisers are becoming increasingly expensive and are often inefficient. On average only about two thirds of the nutrients in inorganic fertilisers (N, P and K) actually go to the plant1. Significant amounts of nutrients are lost through leaching, run-off, gaseous emission and fixation in the soil. This means that you are paying full price for only about 60% of the nutrients... Read more... (235KB PDF)