Completed Projects
- NLP/GRDC Stubble
With funding from the National Landcare Program, SFS has embarked on this extensive research agenda with soil management as the major concern.
- Healthy Soils
Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms is a programme funded by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry through the Natural Heritage Trust, in partnership with the Grains Research and Development Corporation and managed by Land & Water Australia.
- Grain & Graze: Phase 1
Grain & Graze is a program aimed at finding local solutions to some of the major problems facing cropping and grazing farmers in South - Western Victoria. Grain & Graze has five integrated projects which aim to help mixed grazing and cropping farmers lift profits and enhance the environment.
- Precision Ag & Controlled Traffic
The Farming Systems Site developed from a partnership between Shelford/Mt Mercer farmer Dave Stephens and DPI Agronomist Andrew Whitlock. The idea was to have a focus paddock for the Controlled Traffic Farming Groups. Support from Southern Farming Systems and local industry has seen this idea develop into a long term farm scale systems evaluation site.
- Gippsland Grain and Cereal Forage Industry
The full report for the launch of the scopingstudy "An expanded grain and cereal forage industry, Gippsland" can be downloaded from this page.
