The soil management facility provides a world-class resource for the detailed study of interactions between soil, crops/plants, water, agricultural machinery and off-road vehicles. The facility allows controlled simulation of agricultural and environmental systems at the soil aggregate to sub-field scale. The equipment can also be used for product performance testing (eg agrochemical fate and efficacy; effectiveness of erosion control technologies). A soil erosion laboratory includes pressurised and gravity-fed rainfall simulators that simulate temperate and tropical rainfall, with realistic drop sizes, intensities and kinetic energies, for a range of return period storm events.
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