It’s soil that slips through your fingers—loose, dry and stubbornly unproductive. Stretching across large parts of South Australia and western Victoria, sandy soils have long resisted conventional farming methods. They shed water, leach nutrients and, too often, swallow up a grower’s best efforts. With around 900 million hectares of sandy farmland worldwide, this is far from a local problem.
From fragile to fertile: The science behind sandy soil recovery
