Jody's paper describes what causes soil salinity, possible cures and what he is doing on his own farm to stop it's spread. Soil salinity has been and will always be a concern for producers of any field scale crop. If preventative measures are not taken, soil salinity can result in many acres of lost or marginal production. The best way to manage moderate salinity problems is to establish a heavy cover crop, and do as little as possible to disturb the soil surface. With this in mind direct seeding has a positive fit manage saline soils.
Some areas have too much salt to grow any commercially viable crops.
In these cases, a ground cover forage or grass is used. Some of these include Altai Wild Ryegrass, Slender Wheat Grass, Salt Meadow Grass and Tall Wheat Grass. Jody continues to explain his own farm management for salinity. Just finding the general recharge area would be hard enough, let alone trying to convince the owner farming it to plant high water usage crops. The solution to this problem unfortunately now lies with myself, trying to manage the problem that is already there rather than preventing the cause.