Validating and demonstrating paddock scale grid soil sampling and variable rate applications to improve productivity and profitability

BCG and Precision Agriculture Pty Ltd (PAPL) will deliver a farmer focussed validation and demonstration project to provide farmers with opportunities to understand and use innovative and advanced soil sampling processes. This project will allow farmers to better understand paddock variability and to produce variable rate application protocols to maximise productivity and profitability in broadacre farming systems.

Specifically, this project will demonstrate the use of VR to economically complement a novel nitrogen management strategy known as the ‘N Bank’ which BCG research has identified as a simple and profitable strategy to achieve a higher water-limited yield potential, theoretically increase SOC and soil function over time and support stability in long term financial forecasts for growers in the LRZ broadacre cropping regions.