The most promising amendment combinations from five years at Wathingarra are moving to new ground. A replicated trial on deep sand at Walyoo Farm, is testing spading, compost and clay under lupins in Regans Ford in 2026.

WMG's first Sandy Soils demonstration site is in the ground at Gillingarra, where composted chicken manure went onto half a perennial pasture paddock at 38t/ha. We look at what the amendment is delivering and what's being measured this season.

The 2025 chickpeas at Jim Hamilton's Moora property fixed up to 83 kg N/ha. How much of that reaches this year's wheat? A new strip trial is testing nitrogen rates from 32 to 120 kg N/ha to find out.

A three-year Soil CRC project led by WMG with grower groups in three states has wrapped up, producing an Extension Toolkit and a Benefit-Cost Analysis tool now available to grower groups and extension providers across the industry.

Three water repellence sites, three soil types, and two lessons from 2025: strong early biomass didn't always convert to grain, and amelioration reshaped the weed burden. The Plozza Plow topped Dandaragan yields for a second consecutive season.

Clay on sand is expensive, effectively permanent, and highly dependent on getting the rate right. This article works through what recent Soil CRC analysis says about productive clay concentrations, the point at which more starts costing yield, and why a target concentration is not a spread rate.

By mid-July the nitrogen top-up call is looming, and most of the season is still to come. We run DPIRD's free Rainfall to Date tool for Badgingarra, Moora and Dandaragan to put some shape around the decision.

Most operations service the seeder in late summer, just before it is needed. But with seeding windows tightening, a question worth asking is whether completing that work immediately after the season is a better fit.