Hi, my name is Tarn Mangleston. I'm a sustainable agricultural officer with Adelaide Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources. The Parnory Fire came through the law mid-north and Adelaide Plains November 2015. It burnt 80,000 to 1,500 hectares within five hours and through an area that was mid-harvest. So a lot of this area hasn't had cover since November last year. One of the biggest issues in this area is soil cover and you can see a bit of soil and sand drifting through. What we're doing is working with the guys from rural solutions per se to help remediate and stabilize some of the soil issues. We're doing this in two-part process. Behind me is clay spreading with a digging up some clay in the area and then putting it on the soil next to it. So finding a clay pit in the area then spreading it on top of some other sandier soil. Then following this process is a spating process where that clay is then worked into that top soil ready for sewing. Here in the Parnory Fireground on these sand hills, claying is a way to immediately stop the sand drift by putting that red blanket of clay on the surface. We'll actually stabilise the soil very quickly and stop it from moving around. A bit of rain on it will seal the clay and we'll make it a safer proposition. Behind us the clay spreader is now filling in the last clay pit. Part of the operation is so the pits get filled in and landholders don't have a big hole in their paddock. He'll fill this one in and then move up the sand hill and dig out a new pit for the clay to be spread on the rest of the sand hill here. We've changed this site this clay pit because it's quite a friendly clay. It breaks down quite easily. It's probably 25 to 30% clay. It's not so big. Very little carbonate we've changed this site because we didn't want any carbonate. So this is an area where we've got some clay spreading that happened yesterday and you can see the color difference and you can see the clods on top they're going to help stabilise this soil and change it from a sand hill paddock to a bit more clay content. Here is what we're going to be working on today. Other operations as going on behind us is the actual spreading of clay and obviously working with your contractor to get the type of jobs that you want to do like matching the clay rate to the sand here the sand in the mid north is already got a sort of 4% clay content so we just want to take it up to 8% 8 to 9% clay. Remove the non-wetting and start adding some add-on exchange capacity for future productivity. Next operations after this is to level it with some smudge bars to break up those clods get a nice even surface and then the clay can sit for a while and weather until you probably early break of the season when you want to mix it back in. You can use deep discs or spider machine and main thing is to get the preparation right before they before incorporation. A lot of mistakes in the past has been where incorporation hasn't been done well enough to get that homogeneous mix and so working in again in five years time might be useful but obviously in a no-till system you're not working at all so having a re-cold about again the mix it up would be provide a much better job. It's also got long-term productivity benefits to reduce the non-wetting to zero and also to improve the nutrient capacity of the soil because we're taking it from 4% clay to 8 to 9%. You got also more moisture hardening retention from the clay so you got more moisture seeding and plus that stability of erosion control being a bit higher texture grain. Long-term benefits like might take a few years for the fertility to build up but the sand overall be much much more productive in the future. The oldest clay spread in the state is 40 years old so expect not to do it again in that time. Natural resources Adelaide and Matalofty Rangers are working in partnership with Northern and York Natural Resources to provide support and advice to all landholders affected by the Parnay Fire. For more advice and information about how we can help you please head to our website.