Key objectives

Optimising Soil Health & Productivity in the Murraylands and Riverland Region

A collaborative Mallee project promoting soil amelioration to boost carbon storage, crop yields, and drought resilience.

This project demonstrates innovative soil management practices through on-farm trials, workshops and case studies, helping farmers build resilience, productivity and confidence in a variable climate.

An empowering leadership and wellbeing program for rural women in far-western NSW, Beyond the Crossroads provided space to reflect, reconnect, and redefine personal direction in a supportive community environment.

Exploring early sowing to boost lentil and faba bean performance in SA’s low rainfall farming zones.

MSF is trialling legume-based cropping systems to improve soil health and reduce erosion in the Mallee. The work is part of a Mallee CMA initiative funded by the Australian Government’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Program.

Improving wheat emergence in tough Mallee soils with long coleoptile genetics, deep sowing, and trials.

MSF partners with growers in NSW, Victoria, and SA to promote early deep sowing and herbicide safety.

Leading local collaboration in Victoria's Mallee region to build drought preparedness and resilience through community-driven action.

South Australian Mallee Regional Internship in Farming Systems and Applied Grains Research and Extension.

Helping Farmers in the Mallee understand how to manage their Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

Our project, '101 Questions About SA Cropping Soils,' will boost farmer knowledge through easy-to-access e-publication and targeted social media Q&As.

This project funds Mallee farmers to combat wind erosion by enhancing groundcover on vulnerable soils.

Development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in South Australia.

A holistic approach to seep management for preventing land degradation in the landscape.

Strengthening Mallee Farmers and Communities for Sustainable Futures and Enhanced Resilience.

Empowering Mallee's youth to share and celebrate their stories of resilience and community through captivating social media reels

Enhancing sustainable agriculture through innovative carbon farming practices across South Australia’s Murray Mallee

We can see that harvest is on the horizon but we are not quite there yet. So what could possibly go wrong?

Supporting farmers across the Mallee to make better decisions GRDC National Risk Management Initiative (RiskWi$e)

Demonstrate how farmers can manage their own investigation of nutrition requirements when setting up VRT soil zones and fertiliser recommendations

Enhancing drought resilience and groundcover management in low-rainfall farming.

Improving Sandy Soil Management for Farmers

This project will demonstrate farmer ready management practices that break the cycle of saline land degradation exacerbated by very dry or drought conditions

MSF with the support of Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) is on a mission to close the knowledge gap around feed and nutrition in low rainfall zones. 

Maximising soil amelioration efficiency and profitability in South Australian Mallee

A holistic approach to seep management for preventing land degradation in the landscape.

Demonstrating and validating the implementation of integrated weed management strategies to control barley grass in low rainfall farming systems.

Improving the production of legume crops on sandy soils to improve ground cover and reduce erosion risk

Exploring nitrogen strategies to boost crop yields in NSW Mallee region

Area wide management for cropping systems weeds, investigating the weed management, social and economic opportunity.

This project has delivered a state-of-the-art network of 30 weather stations, to the Riverland and Mallee, designed to observe localised meteorological phenomena.

This MSF led project has delivered a high work rate plough prototype in collaboration with UniSA Research Engineers and John Shearer.

Deep ripping to enhance production on Mallee Sandy Soils