Australian Agriculture Assessment 2001 - Contents Page
AUSTRALIAN AGRICULTURE ASSESSMENT 2001
Contents
Australian agriculture - setting the scene
- Australian agricultural industries
- Australian agricultural environment
- Soils used for agriculture
- Australian Soil Resources Information System
- Australian agricultural systems
- Resource sustainability and stewardship
- References
Landscape balances: water, carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus
- Mass balances - a basis for natural resource accounting
- Water balance
- Carbon balance
- Nitrogen and phosphorus balances
- References
Nutrient management in Australian agriculture
- Introduction
- Assessment findings
- Directions for nutrient management
- References
Soil acidification: an insidious soil degradation issue
- Introduction
- Acidification: the process
- Distribution and extent of acidic soils in Australia
- Capacity of Australian soils to resist pH change
- Rates of soil acidification in farming systems
- Lime application strategies
- Management options for acidity
- impacts of acidic soil conditions on plant yield
- Implications for Australian agriculture
- References
- Managing soil erosion: essential for agricultural sustainability
- Assessing water-borne erosion and sediment transport
- Continental sheetwash and rill erosion
- Gully erosion
- Streambank erosion
- Sediment delivery to streams
- Deposition on river beds
- Suspended sediment loads
- Sediment export from rivers
- Implications for agriculture
- References
Nutrient loads to Australian rivers and estuaries
- Introduction
- Modelling river nutrient transport
- River nutrient budgets and net exports
- Nutrient forms and likely ecological impacts
- Implications for land and water management
- References
The changing face of agriculture
- Introduction
- Land use change in Australian agriculture
- Enterprise diversification
- Trends in agricultural productivity
- Concluding comments
- References
Profile of Australian agriculture
- Value of agriculture to Australia
- Sheep
- Beef cattle
- Grains
- Cotton
- Sugar cane
- Horticulture
- Dairy industry: dairying for tomorrow
- Irrigated agriculture
- References
- References
Appendices
- 1. River basin budgets
- 2. Australian Soil Resource Information System
- 3. Major soils used for agriculture in Australia
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'Australian Agriculture Assessment 2001.'
ISBN: 0 642 37121 0
Editing & design: Themeda
Line diagrams: Marco Wallenius
Cover design: City Graphics
Cover photo: Murray - Darling Basin Commission
Printing: Union Offset
October 2001
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