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Mark’s Farm Tips provide useful farming advice to help take your farm to its full potential — from Sota’s Agronomist & Farming Guru, Mark Crakanthorp. How often has a hobby farm sprung up where there was once a dairy? An old market garden? Or even an orchard – long neglected. The legacy of scattered . . . → Read More: What About The Soil? Mark’s Farm Tips provide useful farming advice to help take your farm to its full potential — from Sota’s Agronomist & Farming Guru, Mark Crakanthorp. I’ve had quite a few customer enquiries recently about purchasing tractors and implements to undertake riparian works to what sounds like some pretty run down blocks. In these . . . → Read More: Soil Testing for Best Results When rehabilitating land that is affected by salinity it is best to first consider your soils and existing vegetation. Some changes can be effected within your soil, especially if it is possible to reduce the amount of salt entering it by select plantings and control of surface water runoff. Your existing vegetation, with careful . . . → Read More: How do I rehabilitate my salt affected land? cultivated saltbush There are plants that indicate that there is a salinity problem with your soil. Some plant species can tolerate high salt concentrations and grow in these areas while others can only live in lower concentrations. Zones or concentric circles of plants can be seen in some areas indicating a change . . . → Read More: Are there visual indicators of Salinity problems? This is some salt scald areas of Grant Wardle’s Straithairlie farm near Boyup Brook in Western Australia. Salinity affects nearly 50% of farmed land in WA. Note how the salt at the surface has eliminated most of the vegetation except for some hardy, salt-tolerant grasses. Grant’s challenge was how to restore vegetation along . . . → Read More: Grant improved his long-term production through Salinity Mapping. measuring the water level in a standpipe with a piezometer A piezometer is a small-diameter observation well used to measure the hydraulic head of groundwater in aquifers. Similarly, it may also be a standpipe, tube, vibrating wire piezometer or manometer used to measure the pressure of a fluid at a specific location in . . . → Read More: What is a Piezometer? |
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