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The front cover of our special September 2022 newsletter is celebrating a man very close to our hearts 🙌 E/Prof Graeme Martin recently clocked up 50 years at UWA. Read about his amazing five-decade achievement & all the latest from The UWA Institute of Agriculture here 📰 uwa.edu.au/institutes/ins…

The draft National Soil Action Plan has been released for consultation. This important plan will guide the first 5 years of action on Australia's 20-year National Soil Strategy. I encourage all soil stakeholders to submit your views. Your input matters. haveyoursay.agriculture.gov.au/soil-action

Encouraging to see students and experienced soil scientists work together at UWA Farm Ridgefield as they work to map and improve the landscape under the 'Best Practice Farming Systems Project' to deliver robust farming systems that create economic, environmental and social benefits.

Applying lime and sulphate of ammonia in close succession before seeding saw up to 20% of N volatilised in our glasshouse study. Time to see if residual lime has the same effect UWA Soils UWA Research The UWA Institute of Agriculture GRDC Dr Rowan Maddern Daniel Murphy Fiona Dempster @PaulDamon1

SAVE THE DATE 📢 You're invited to celebrate #WorldSoilDay with our community of researchers, producers, industry and students sharing their perspectives on why soil matters! Hosted by us and Soil Science Australia Full program and venue soon! RSVP ➡️ bit.ly/wsd-22

UWA Soils Matthias Leopold has been out about again! This time with Mateja Ferk and colleagues (ZRC, Slovenia) studying soils and sediments of collapsed dolines at the Abrakurrie Cave near Eucla WA UWA Research UWA Students

Check out this behind-the-scenes snap of UWA SAgE The UWA Institute of Agriculture UWA Research Research Fellow Dr Bede Mickan being interviewed by the ABC News today! 📸 Watch this space, we'll be sure to share the story when it goes to air... #uwanews #uwaresearch

Harvest is well underway at DPIRD’s Merredin Research Station. We will be examining N fertiliser losses here, plus 3 other WA sites in partnership with DPIRDWA Murdoch University. Project part of a GRDC national project UWA Research The UWA Institute of Agriculture

Roots run deep session - exploring indigenous knowledge of restoration and themes for the new #HealingCountry ARC Training Centre. Great to have these conversations - how do we make sure we communicate different needs to different communities.

Productive meeting yesterday with The Crawford Fund CEO Dr Colin Chartres and colleague Sarah Paradise exploring opportunities for increased collaboration on #soil issues. Australia's soil science community is well placed to contribute to soil skills development and training programs

Prof Peter Davies, DVCR, presented completion certificates for Bangladesh participants in Writing course ⁦Murdoch University⁩ ⁦ACIAR⁩ ⁦The Crawford Fund⁩ ⁦SoilsWest⁩

Thanks Minister ⁦Senator Penny Wong⁩ for your great support for ACIAR during my tenure, understanding the strategic importance of #food security and Australia’s comparative advantage in relevant sciences Fiona Simson ⁦ ⁦devpolicy.org⁩ ⁦Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering⁩ ⁦Australian Academy of Science⁩

Best way to celebrate Soil World Day? Dig a soil pit, discuss, and then go have lunch! Fun morning with UWA soil scientists and PhD Students at the UWA Shenton Park Field Station. Any guesses on the soil type? SoilsWest UWA Research The UWA Institute of Agriculture

Nineteen new crop varieties 🌾have been released in Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 through ACIAR-funded research 🇦🇺 led by the University of Western Australia, helping smallholder farming communities improve production and #foodsecurity. More: bit.ly/41gFTBV UWA Caitlin Wilson

Time has well and truly flown for UWA Research academics whose research into #wingedbean has spanned more than five decades 🌱✈ Read the fascinating article featuring Assoc/Prof Louise Barton Louise Barton, Dr Tanveer Khan & Adj/Prof William Erskine below! uwa.edu.au/news/article/2…

One of the 3 new winged bean varieties released thru the ACIAR ‘Seeds of Life’ & Agricultural Innovations for Communities project in 2023 was identified by Prof Erskine in the 1970s, via a connection made possible through international cooperation in germplasm exchange.

Call for abstracts now open for 21st Agronomy Conference

Soil Science Australia WA AGM is in full swing under WA President George Mercer SoilsWest Soil Science Australia

Are you are a WA grower and what are your thoughts on traceability? If you have 15 minutes Emanuel Gomez would you appreciate your thoughts on the subject!

Now there is another place to access a lot of information contained in the Soil Quality ebooks. Plus much much more. Well done SoilWest and all the fantastic contributors of evidence based content.