{"id":7817,"date":"2022-11-21T06:18:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T06:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/video-soil-erosion-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T22:25:48","slug":"soil-health-event-kairi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/soil-health-event-kairi\/","title":{"rendered":"Join this soil health event\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"[mk_page_section bg_image=”https:\/\/terrain.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/soilslider2.jpg” bg_position=”center center” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_stretch=”true” enable_3d=”true” min_height=”500″ js_vertical_centered=”true” padding_top=”” padding_bottom=”” section_id=”donate” el_class=”donate-1″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”70px”][mk_fancy_title font_family=”none” align=”center”]WET TROPICS SOILCARE EVENT – ALL WELCOME[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider size=”67″][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][mk_page_section section_id=”great-1″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1563789112768{padding-right: 36px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}” el_class=”great_header_left”][mk_padding_divider size=”100″ visibility=”hidden-nb”][mk_padding_divider size=”15″ visibility=”visible-sm”][mk_padding_divider visibility=”visible-tl”][mk_fancy_title size=”28″ letter_spacing=”4″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” el_class=”terrain-title-2″]WET TROPICS SOILCARE FIELD DAY & AGM[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider size=”60″ visibility=”hidden-nb”][mk_padding_divider size=”20″ visibility=”visible-nb”][vc_column_text el_class=”sub-head” css=”.vc_custom_1669012550500{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]21 NOVEMBER 2022[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”5″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1669015250180{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Join us in Kairi for a soil health field day on Sunday 4 December…<\/p>\n

Farmers from across all industries are encouraged to come to the event, which will focus on low-cost establishment of perennial pastures, cover-cropping in broadacre systems, and worm farms.
\nThere will be a farm visit, as well as presenters a the Kairi Hotel, and there’ll be plenty of time to ask questions, share experiences and ideas.<\/p>\n

The day is being organised by farmer-led soil health group Wet Tropics Soilcare (WETS) with support from Terrain NRM.<\/p>\n

WETs\u2019 Michelle Milicevic says the group welcomes newcomers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe range from orchardists to graziers and large-scale commercial farmers to smaller producers. One thing that we all have in common is soil health. And events like this, with guest speakers and visits to farms, are also about people sharing their soil health challenges with others, and the changes they\u2019ve made or are thinking of making to improve soil health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s event begins at the Evans family farm in Kairi, where mixed species cover-cropping trials are underway to find the most cost-effective pasture enhancement to improve soil condition and plant diversity.<\/p>\n

Cattle are being used as the mechanisms to sow perennial legume seeds on the farm, at a site where 10 different combinations of compost, Agfert, Ozcal, hay and seed are being trialled.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter seeing a decline in health in an annual cover crop planted within a perennial pasture, a demonstration site was co-created to find ways to improve soil fertility and establish perennial diversity in an established grazing pasture system,\u2019\u2019 Terrain agronomist Sally Fields said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis trial is introducing multi-species pastures into a grazing paddock to improve the pasture. It\u2019s also trialling a low-cost and low-mechanised system to seed the pasture, in place of machinery and seeders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kellie Evans will be talking about her work to improve pasture diversity for her cattle.<\/p>\n

The next stop is the Kairi Hotel where guest speakers are Nutrigold\u2019s Glenn Oliver and Terrain\u2019s Sally Fields. Glenn has a wealth of knowledge on worm farming and will be talking about the benefits of worm castings or \u201cworm juice\u201d for soil, as well as his experiences setting up a commercial worm farm on the Tablelands.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1563789122720{padding-right: 0px !important;padding-left: 34px !important;}” el_class=”great_header_right”][mk_padding_divider size=”206″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”50″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”50″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1669014863802{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\"\"[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1669015282446{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Sally will talk about cover-cropping in broadacre systems, examples of safe-to-fail trials close to home and technologies and tools that can help producers diversify from traditional mono-cropping.<\/p>\n

The event includes lunch at the Kairi Hotel, followed by the Wet Tropics Soilcare group\u2019s annual general meeting. \u201cWe\u2019d love people to be part of the AGM as well,\u2019\u2019 Michelle says.<\/p>\n

More information and registrations here.<\/a>
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