Cool Soil Initiative
Cool Soil Initiative
Charles Sturt University joins Mars, Kellogg's, the Manildra Group and the Food Agility CRC to support farmers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of a three-year $2 million project.
We're excited to be working with wheat growers like Craig and Fiona Marshall (pictured) to investigate how crop management can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
It's part of the $2 million 'Cool Soil Initiative', a project with the Food Agility Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) that's bringing together Charles Sturt University, Mars Petcare, the Manildra Group and Kellogg's.
The project will investigate new management practices that deliver a win-win for productivity and sustainability.
We're working with farming systems groups, Riverine Plains Inc, FarmLink Research and Central West Farming Systems.
Rennie district farmers Craig and Fiona Marshall said the project offers an opportunity to do their part in identifying opportunities to slow the pace of climate change.
“The soil tests performed as part of the project are measuring the carbon in our soils but also measuring other soil factors which may limit crop production so we can identify and ameliorate the problems and hopefully boost production,” they said.
“This is a long term project so we will have the opportunity to track our soils over time and identify changes in response to different farming practises we might try."