Growing your experience
Regenerative Cropping Practice Guides
Explore the map of practices below and read more in each practice guide.
Scroll down to view allExplore our practical guides and resources to learn how Australian farmers are building soil health and farm resilience in cropping systems.
1. Biological Seed Treatments
Farmers use biological seed treatments to give their plants the best possible start. Biological seed treatments can include microbes, biostimulants and nutrients.
Check out the guide
2. Multispecies Cropping
Multispecies cropping involves the use of multiple crop species from diverse plant families at the same time. The practice is often used to bring diversity into farming systems, transition ‘problem’ paddocks and build farm resilience.
Check out the guideQuick links
3. Reducing Herbicides
Reducing herbicides in cropping systems tends to involve multiple complementary strategies, particularly strategies for weed management. This guide covers efficiency, substitution, redesign strategies.
Check out the guide
4. Foliar Applications
Foliar applications of nutrients and/or biostimulants to crop foliage with the aim of improving plant health, overcoming soil constraints and improving overall resilience.
Check out the guideQuick links
5. Biological Inputs and Fertilisers
Biological inputs and fertilisers are microbially active sources of crop nutrition and biostimulants that support crop growth. These inputs are often used to reduce reliance on synthetic inputs, and to improve soil biological health and organic matter.
Check out the guide
6. Improving Nitrogen Cycling and Efficiencies
Nitrogen is an important nutrient for crop growth. This guide explains how nitrogen moves around soils and plants, and how to make the most of the nitrogen applied and improve nitrogen cycling in a cropping system.
Check out the guide
7. Intercropping
Intercropping involves growing two or more complementary crops together to increase plant diversity, with flow-on benefits for crop health, productivity, farm resilience, and soil and ecological health.
Check out the guide
8. Integrated Cropping and Livestock
Integrating livestock involves combining cropping with sheep, cattle or other animals. Integrating livestock addresses one of the biggest challenges to soil and landscape regeneration in cropping systems by reintroducing species diversity, and can lead to immediate improvements in nutrient cycling and weed and biomass management. This guide introduces methods farmers are using to integrate livestock into broadacre cropping and the benefits of doing so.
Check out the guide
9. Soil and Plant Health Monitoring
Famers Myles and Julie Ballentine share simple soil and plant testing and monitoring methods that they implement on their farm near Banana QLD. They also share the benefits of soil and plant monitoring for them, and how the insights from monitoring help with their descision making.
Check out the videoLooking for something else?
We’d love to hear what other practices and resources you think are needed to support farmers in building healthy soils and resilient farms. Please feel free to reach out if you have experiences to share.
