Celebrating 75 years of Soil-Care Mary-Anne Young PIRSA Tim Herrmann DEWNR.

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Celebrating 75 years of Soil-Care Mary-Anne Young PIRSA Tim Herrmann DEWNR

Advisory Board of Agriculture 1909 Farmers visiting Roseworthy c1900 Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation staff 1965 First Soil Conservator Bob Herriot

Erosion protection index (days, 3 year rolling mean) for agricultural cropping land in South Australia, 2002 to 2015.

Proportion (%) of crop area sown using no-till methods and erosion protection index (days, annual) for agricultural cropping land in the SAMDB Region, 1999 to 2015.