Digital Agriculture Data for Research and Decision

Pete head

Foundations for the Land Health Program approach

1. Engagement

2. Use people / organisational strengths

3. Easy access to information for decisions

4. Monitoring and evaluation

Engagement & strengths Invite

responsibility

The plan is ‘owned’ by a collective of landcare, farming and industry groups, universities and Government agencies who share a common goal of improving the condition of agricultural soils in South west Victoria. The collaborative partnership is about using each organisations’ strength to help the collective good.

Engagement & strengths Key players

Industry Landcare (prospectus) Education sector Consultants Retail RDCs Other - VFF, Horsecare through Landcare, Women on

Farms

Engagement & strengths

Engagement & strengthsNLP

Soil acidity theme

GRDC national

lime initiative

South west expert group• Steering committee • VLPA• Lime producers• Consultants

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Trials & gigs

Our Catchments Our Communities

DA Land Water and Carbon

WestVic implementation group• Steering committee • WestVic Dairy• Consultants• DEDJTR

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Gigs & incentives

Easy access to information for decisions (M & E)

Corangamite Soil Health Knowledge Base

Summary1. We have an engagement process and principles that

can be replicated in any future NRM investment

2. We have some useful tools / platforms that could be expanded to other regions

3. We are an innovative region with a can do mentality