The Soil CRC’s free Soil Carbon Capacity Building webinar series helps NSW farmers, landholders, and advisors understand and manage soil carbon on-farm.

Across seven webinars — six already delivered and available to view — the series covers soil data access, interpretation, and region-specific practices for improving soil carbon.

This project supports growers to adopt strategic dry and early sowing practices that better suit their local conditions, helping them manage increasingly unreliable season-opening rainfall across southern Australia.

By working with 15 farming systems groups, including CWFS, the program aims to accelerate knowledge, confidence, and adoption of improved seeding strategies that reduce risk and enhance resilience.

This project is expanding Australia’s national soil data federation to allow researchers, farming groups and producers to access, share and visualise detailed soil and agricultural data through an online portal that supports better on-farm decisions and future research.

This project is developing and testing new organic and inorganic carriers for rhizobial inoculants to improve rhizobia survival, nitrogen fixation and crop performance, addressing the limitations of peat-based carriers and heat- and moisture-related losses.

By evaluating biochars, biopolymers and other low-cost materials across diverse regions and soils, the research aims to deliver practical, cost-effective alternatives that boost legume productivity and soil health in Australian farming systems.

This project is measuring how different soil management and amelioration strategies influence soil water infiltration, storage and crop use, while also assessing water competition in mixed-species cover crops.

This project is assessing how a unified network of 80 on-farm weather stations across NSW and Victoria can provide more localised, reliable climate data to improve bushfire and flood preparedness for farmers, emergency services and communities.

This project helps farmers build drought resilience by teaching and demonstrating how Stock Management Areas can protect groundcover, reduce land degradation and support faster recovery after drought.

This project is testing deep-rooted tropical legumes and pasture mixes to identify establishment challenges and improve adoption of legumes in northern grazing systems, boosting long-term drought resilience for producers across Queensland, NSW and the Northern Territory.

This project is building farmers’ skills and confidence to adopt drought-resilient pasture systems by demonstrating modern perennial grass and legume combinations that improve feedbase reliability, soil health, biodiversity and landscape resilience.

This project is creating a reporting tool that helps farmers better assess the full risk–reward profile of new farming practices by incorporating financial, environmental, social and governance factors rather than relying solely on traditional gross-margin analysis.

This project is demonstrating three proven strategies—diverse legume rotations, early sowing of slower-maturing crops, and better nitrogen management—to improve soil health, water holding capacity and profitability, helping farmers build stronger drought resilience across varied farming systems in NSW and northern Victoria.

This project is demonstrating alternative annual forage legumes to help Central West NSW producers rebuild livestock numbers, diversify feedbase options and improve resilience to climate variability by integrating new legume species into mixed farming systems where traditional legumes are no longer reliable.

This project is comparing organic nitrogen from legume-based rotations with synthetic urea to assess their effects on soil health, grain yield and profitability, giving growers evidence to guide nitrogen management decisions in the Central West.

This project is investigating how increasing plant diversity through rotations, cover crops and perennial legumes can reshape rhizosphere processes to improve soil function, moisture dynamics, crop performance and farm profitability across different farming systems.

This project tests different nitrogen-banking targets and crop nitrogen-demand scenarios on-farm to identify the most profitable, lowest-risk strategies for closing the wheat yield gap caused by inadequate nitrogen supply.

This project is developing and testing locally tailored knowledge-sharing strategies to boost landholder engagement in soil-health practices, helping grower groups use more effective extension methods—from digital tools to field days—to drive adoption of best-practice soil management.

This project is developing modern lime-management and soil-carbon tools—supported by new machine-learning acidification models—to help farmers in southern and central NSW prevent subsurface acidity and soil carbon decline, improving long-term productivity and resilience across cropping and pasture systems.

This project develops and tests an Integrated Weed Management strategy to help low-rainfall zone growers control increasingly persistent and herbicide-resistant barley grass through large-scale, practical demonstration trials.

This project develops an Integrated Weed Management strategy for glyphosate-resistant Feathertop Rhodes grass by benchmarking its spread in southern NSW and studying its local biology to design effective, region-specific control approaches.

This project improved irrigator capability and profitability by demonstrating precision and autonomous irrigation technologies, best-practice management, and soil-moisture–driven decision-making to maximise crop returns per megalitre of water.