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Projects and companies are looking hard at recovering nutrients from bio-wastes and by-products to produce organo-mineral fertilisers
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Good soil structure is vital for optimising water and nutrient use efficiency; and for sustaining profitable cropping systems. Poor soil structure and compaction can reduce yields, restrict access…
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Soils form over thousands of years through local interactions of climate, geology, hydrology and management, giving variability in the proportion of sand, silt & clay, soil depth and what…
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Earthworms are known as ecosystem engineers due to their ability to structurally, chemically and biologically transform the soil environment in which they live.
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Plant growth regulators (PGRs) are synthetic compounds which can be used to reduce lodging in several crop species.
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Share information, knowledge, resources and experience on how we can improve crop perfomance (yield, quality and profitability) whilst reducing reliance on input, reducing impacts and improving…