Digging the dirt on blueberry mound fertiliser management
Justine Cox - Soil Scientist and Dr Simon Clarendon - Soil Chemistry Research Officer
Click on the link below to listen to the audio from Friday 17 July 2020
Webinar Recording
How does soil type, texture, and time affect your fertiliser program?
Our July FSG Webinar focused on the soil in your blueberry mounds. In this recording, Justine Cox and Simon Clarendon discuss soil type and texture in the mound, and how soil chemistry and mound structure can change over time.
Justine also addresses other physical and biological aspects of the soil that affect fertiliser management, while Simon looks at the behaviour of phosphorous in soil.
The presentation considers the interaction of nutrients with soil type, pH, organic carbon, and cation exchange capacity, as well as the effects of mulch.
Justine Cox
Justine Cox is a Soil Scientist for the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, based at Wollongbar. She works predominantly in the horticultural area where her soil research covers the macadamia, blueberry, vegetable, melon and banana industries.
Justine has worked on soil erosion and soil health in the macadamia industry and mulches and soil amendments for the blueberry industry. She has also evaluated compost and biochar for soil carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas reduction, soil fertility and crop yield.
Dr Simon Clarendon
Simon is a Soil Chemistry Research Officer with NSW DPI’s Soil & Water Research & Development Team based in Tamworth.
Simon has worked extensively on understanding phosphorus loss pathways and mechanisms in soils across different agricultural landscapes.
His research also investigates how to mitigate these losses to improve both economic and environmental outcomes.
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Email: sarah.dadd@dpi.nsw.gov.au
Phone: 0477 705 114
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