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Mallee Sustainable Farming (MSF) Inc. is a farmer driven organisation servicing the < 350-mm rainfall mallee cropping regions of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The service area covers approximately 7 million hectares of farming land between Hay, NSW to the east and Murray Bridge, SA to the west.

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Issues currently being investigated by Mallee Sustainable Farming Inc project resources include -

• Productivity of medic pastures
• Assessment of soil microbial activity in low rainfall mallee soils
• Profitable crop rotations
• Water use efficiency
• Identification of sub-soil constraints through EM Mapping and management options for Mallee soils
• Crop nutrition and targeted input options
• Fallow management and erosion risk potential
• Production responses of sheep and pastures at different stocking rates
• Biodiversity and farming
• Integrated weed management