
Can Australian Farms be Better Prepared for Droughts?
Strategies for drought preparedness have until recently focused mainly on water conservation, feed reserves and de-stocking. However, up until now no one has thought that the answer to droughts may lie in the soils. For the last seven years, Australian Soil Management (ASM) has been conducting research and working with farmers in Southern NSW to improve their soils. This has revealed some interesting and industry changing results. The single most important fact to emerge is t