Grower case study | WA | Challenges of ironstone gravel soil
Channel: Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)
Date: 12/09/2022

Mark Fowler manages "Yarrabin Farms", a mixed farming enterprise with his wife Latricia, their three kids. And Mark's parents, Doug and Jenny. They farm in six different locations across medium and high rainfall zones in Western Australia's grainbelt. The main soil type at their property at Williams is a white gum gravel.

A significant and ambitious GRDC investment on ironstone gravel, led by Dr Francesca Brailsford of Murdoch University, has spent the past couple of years delivering new insights on the chemical composition of different gravel types. The focus is now switching to on-farm trials, to give growers practical information on how to better manage ironstone gravel soils from a cropping, nutrition and water perspective. 

The ironstone gravels soil project is part of a SoilsWest alliance initiative, which also includes The University of Western Australia, Department of Primary Industries and Regions South Australia, Queen’s University Belfast and Bangor University.

GRDC project code: UMU2111-001RTX

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