soil acidification

Monitoring soil condition across Australia

This report identifies a range of issues related to the local and broad scale monitoring of soil condition across Australia. Four priority processes which potentially have a major impact on the welfare of all Australians are wind erosion, water erosion, soil acidification and soil carbon change. These processes are difficult to monitor because either they progress very slowly or occur as irregular catastrophic events. In mid-2006 the National Land & Water (more)...

Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management

Any future expansion of irrigated agriculture in Australia is likely to occur in northern Australia. The region of Australia north of the tropic of Capricorn has abundant water resources — over 60% of the nations surface water run-off (NLWA 2001). However, there are concerns that in the rush to develop this new bonanza we will simply make the same mistakes that plague existing irrigation systems. These include: water logging, salinization, soil acidification, erosion, (more)...

Intensification and diversification in a mixed farming system