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Title: Potential for increased farm production and improved land management through use of gypsum around Lake Chinocup / edited by A.J. Montgomery.
Author: Montgomery, A. J. (Western Australian Dept. of Agriculture, Katanning) ; Western Australia Dept. of Agriculture Katanning District Office.
Year: 1994.
Description: 80 p. ; in folder, 35 cm. + 4 maps (in folder)
Subject: Land management. ; Sustainability. ; Farm management. ; Lake Chinocup (W.A.) ; Costs. ; Trials. ; Farming systems. ; Gypsum. ; Crop yield. ; Western Australia. ; Gypsum requirement. ; Farm planning.
Notes: 19 tables.
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Type: Book
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In the southern wheat belt of Western Australia, there are substantial areas of heavy soils, known locally as moort soils and collectively called hard setting, grey clays. These soils are difficult to cultivate, crop emergence is poor and yield are generally low. Cultivation and puddling by stock quickly breaks down the structure of these soils which makes them very prone to waterlogging, even more difficult to work and less productive. Gypsum can improve the structure of some of these soils and, in conju
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