Bonnie Flohr from CSIRO joined us in this episode to chat about her work on a case study based in Lameroo on soil, water and temperature thresholds for early wheat establishment.

The aim of this project is to determine the soil water requirements, and soil temperature limitations to the successful establishment of deeply sown long coleoptile wheat cultivars at the earlier sowing dates in the South Australian mallee environment. 

This SAGIT funded project is achieving this in three phases:

1. Model simulation to determine anticipated soil temperature and water scenarios in the mallee environment.
2. A controlled environment experiment with intact soil cores collected from the target environment, testing the impact of temperature and soil moisture regimes on plant establishment.
3. A 3-month field experiment that evaluates the effect of soil moisture and ground cover on soil temperature at early sowing windows.

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