Loam’s Dan Reid is chats with Loam's first SecondCrop grower Steve Nicholson, while at the Australian National Field Days at Borenore near Orange.
Steve farms at Wirrinya, in-between Forbes and Grenfell in the central west of NSW. Steve spent many years as District Agronomist with the Department of Agriculture and has been farming at Wirrinya for the past 22 years.
Steve is the first grower to partner with Loam in a SecondCrop soil carbon project, with the program launching this year. Steve applied CarbonBuilder Canola and CarbonBuilder Barley to his crops this year, and just begun harvest, eager to see the results in yield and soil carbon build.
This episode covers:
- How the crops in Steve's Second Crop Soil Carbon Project are looking with harvest just begun
- Building soil carbon is a combination of several on farm practices with carbon builder a key cog in the wheel
- Steve had a tour through Loam's Soil Lab
- What Steve's experience as the first grower in the first year of SecondCrop soil carbon projects has been like
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