Farming salty land

Farming salty land gives farmers and land managers greater options and can significantly improve farm productivity by making previously-unproductive land productive. When well-managed, salty land can be a valuable asset.

The Future Farm Industries CRC’s SaltCap and SaltDecide project is developing decision-support tools for landholders wanting to establish best salinity management practices for farming salty land. The project is assessing the environmental impact of plant-based saltland management systems in specific catchments. This information will be used on a catchment scale to predict and better manage salinity. The project is developing a system for diagnosing the most appropriate options for farming salty land; analysing the impact of saltland systems on the water and salt balance of saline land and streams; and modelling the effectiveness of Future Farm Industries CRC saltland technologies at the catchment scale. SaltCap and SaltDecide give farmers greater options and support for farming salty land.