Soil Health

Is your soil health getting better or worse? What can you do on the farm to track progress? To find out, take on the Soil Health Challenge.
The Soil Health Guide will walk you through the Soil Health Challenge, which involves five quick and easy field methods to assess the health of your soil. These methods are an effective starting point for understanding soil health and monitoring changes over time. Observing and recording the outcomes of these methods can help with decision making in the paddock and understanding the effects different management practices have on your soils.

For the 'Soils For Life' complete guide of how to assess your soil health - click HERE.

This guide includes a complete how to:
* take photo points
* monitor ground cover
* measure water infiltration
* measure aggregate stability
* estimate soil macro-organism diversity.

Courtesy of Soils For Life