Soil Amelioration and Sand Stabilisation

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The Coorong Tatiara Local Action Plan has been working on soil amelioration, improving production on sandy soils and sandhill stabilisation projects since 2001.

Coorong Tatiara Local Action Plan are currently actively delivering two projects based around improving production on sandy soils;

- Improved Grazing Production on Non-Wetting Sands funded by Meat and Livestock Australia - the focus of this project is production improvement in livestock production systems on non wetting sands where clay is not available

- Improved knowledge & health of non wetting soils delivering sustainable & productive soil management decisions based on evidence funded by the National Landcare Program - the focus of this project is production improvement in livestock production systems on non wetting sands and looking at novel techniques to improve production of veldt grass

A project web page delivering project information and decision support tools to improve our understanding, management and options for improving production on these soils is currently being developed.

The current GRDC resources provide excellent information on soil amelioration techniques on sandy soils;

https://grdc.com.au/resources-and-publications/all-publications/factsheets/2015/01/clay-spreading-and-delving

https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/landscape/docs/mr/spread-delve-spade-invert-rep.pdf

Sandy Soil Stabilisation and Machinery

The presentation below summarises the lessons we have learnt from working on challenging sites.

The topics covered include: