Project overview
Local Land Services are supporting landholders to make grazing decisions at critical times of the season with real time data on climate variability, seasonal conditions and natural resource management.
Project objectives
This project will:
- provide landholders with soil moisture information to allow better property management
- increase confidence in decision making across critical times of the year.
Project delivery
The Hunter Soil Moisture Network is a new initiative to provide landholders with soil moisture information to enable better property management and
The network provides real time data to support producers to make decisions around:
- management of climatic variability
- natural resource management
- seasonal conditions.
With 18 strategically positioned soil probes across the Hunter region, producers can view real time data of:
- soil moisture to a depth of 1m
- soil temperature
- wind
- rainfall.
The probes are across a diverse range of soil, pasture and grazing types.
The Soil moisture network project provides real time local data to assist:
- pre-emptive decisions concerning feed or fertiliser requirements and timing of livestock sales
- underpin response strategies which increase farmer and ecosystem resilience by optimising farm productivity and natural resource condition
- minimise risk to profitability and land condition by matching stocking rates to feed availability, management of fertiliser application and pasture renovation requirements.
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Funding and partnerships
The Soil moisture network project is managed by a consortium comprised of Monaro Farming Systems, South East Local Land Services, Tablelands Farming Systems and Bookham Ag Bureau through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Program.
Hunter Local Land Services’ partners include:
- Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund
- Australian Government's National Landcare Program
- Dungog – Gresford Land & Beef Inc Group
- Glencore
- MACHEnergy
- MidCoast Dairy Advancement Group
- Singleton Beef and Land
- Upper Hunter Sustainable Farming Group Inc.
For more information, contact:
- Sarah Giblin on 0409 785 172 or at sarah.giblin@lls.nsw.gov.au
- Nikki Gilder on 0476 796 729 or at nikki.gilder@lls.nsw.gov.au
- Peter Beale on 0427 007 468 or at peter.beale@lls.nsw.gov.au
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