Stephen Cattle

Field of Dreams - grow it and they will come…

@agvocate_au @OutbackEco No, reversal of the erosion isn’t possible, but through management practices such as installing water ponding banks, revegetation can be encouraged and future erosion minimised or reduced.

@StephenCattle @OutbackEco Can that be reversed ?

Slowly eroding clay pan near Brewarrina, NSW. The bottom 10-15 cm of the posts used to be beneath the soil surface.

Delving a Sodosol at the University’s farm “Nowley” - mixing some subsoil clay into the top 0.5 m of sand to improve water-holding capacity. @SoilSecurity @Sydney_Science @SiaSydney

@sOiLmAlOnE Hope they haven’t peaked too early...

Penny Ps piling it on

@SydneySOLES Our USyd farm dust traps @pbinarrabri and at Spring Ridge look like they might receive a deposit today...

Ping @StephenCattle

@adambspencer Luckily I’m not a vet.

Nominative determinism at it’s absolute grandest #ProfessorCattle #Agriculture

One Tree Hotel for sale! This ex-Cobb & Co. staging post has not had a liquor licence since 1942 and has no power, but is great for social distancing.

Fact check - there are two trees at One Tree if you squint hard.

Now that’s a scalded clay pan soil at One Tree! Gypsum from 23 cm depth and a dispersive crust at the surface.

Pig face at One Tree, north of Hay in SW NSW - buy it for 10 bucks at a city nursery, or see acres of it growing wild out here...

@SoilScienceAust Here we go again, unfortunately...

Unfortunately more severe soil storms today, we need increased action in Australia to #stopsoilerosion, read more about this serious issue and Community Dustwatch here environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/land-an…

@SydneySOLES Very impressive haboob - let’s hope some rain brings all that topsoil back to earth soon...

This may interest you @StephenCattle

@Julie_Cattle That’s the prize money in rupiah - equivalent to $200/$300

@StephenCattle There’s an impressive number of zeros on the certificate too!

The winners of the Indonesian Soil Judging Contest - Padjadjaran University!! That’s the biggest trophy I’ve ever seen!

@wills_skye And what’s more, the picked-at faces are completely scraped back between successive teams looking at the profile !!

I have never seen such a clean pit

@ihol6844 No, clay throughout. There’s a subsurface zone of Mn due to the soil’s previous use as a rice paddy.

@StephenCattle Is there a clay bulge???

Calm before the storm at the #indonesiansoiljudgingcontest

Immaculate soil pit in preparation for the Indonesian Soil Judging Contest

Sydney Uni soil judgers getting a good look at an Andisol near Bogor before the Indonesian Soil Judging Comp on Dec 3 and 4. Thanks to students from IPB Uni in Bogor for their help!