2021 CONFERENCE WEBINARS
PART 1: Buy it or Make It?
This SA No-Till Farmers Association webinar explores the options available to farmers for making nitrogen fertiliser with renewable energy at regional scale. The Implications of Green Hydrogen for SA Grain Growers is a project delivered by the SA No-Till Farmers Association with support from the SA Grains Industry Trust.
Greg Butter SANTFA R&D chats with
PROFESSOR VOLKER HESSEL
ECMS Deputy Dean – Research, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials – Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, and
NICHOLAS MUMFORD
Nicholas Mumford has over 20 years of industry experience, largely with Santos, Shell, ElectraNet and Zonge Geophysics, spanning the oil & gas, electricity and resources sectors. Formal qualifications include an MBA and Bachelor of Science (Honours Geophysics).
Video length – 0:33:56 hours
PART 2: Brown Manure or Out of the Bag, Presented by Joel Williams from Integrated Soils.
Joel is an independent plant and soil health educator and a healthy soils advocate.
He provides lectures, workshops and consultation on soil management, plant nutrition and integrated approaches of sustainable food production and educates farmers worldwide.
Joel studied a Bachelor of Agricultural Science in Australia specialising in plant and soil dynamics and has a particular interest in managing soil microbial ecology along with crop & soil nutrition to optimise plant immunity, soil function and soil carbon sequestration.
In this webinar Joel will cover:
- Soil Carbon
- Roots to build soil organic matter (SOM)
- Root exudates
- Microbial biomass/necromass
- Soil Nitrogen
- Nitrogen – build or burn SOM?
- N fixation
- Intercropping with Legumes
- NUE
- Organic N in the plant
Video length – 2:07:52 hours includes Q&A