The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, with the support of the Dow Chemical Company, has released the final report from the Dow Sustainability Program. The report draws together the...

Andrea Koch, Alex McBratney and Budiman Minasny investigate the viability of a call by the French Government in the lead up to COP21 to increase carbon in the global soil stock by 4...

The Land

Soil is vital to solving a slew of big issues for the globe, from food security to biodiversity. Director of the Centre's Soil Carbon Initiative Andrea Koch explains it's "the engine room...

Hosted by the US Studies Centre in partnership with the NSW Government, the conference brought together experts from the US and Australia from the military, business, government and the scientific communities to address...

Today digital technology is viewed as additive to the physical world: something that enhances but does not replace the use of physical infrastructure. However, this paper by Hugh Bradlow and Arjun Jayachandra, presented at...

Future farmers will rely on advanced forms of soil sensors, satellite technology, weather forecasts, probes, and energy technology to "farm from the soil up," was the message delivered at a recent Centre conference...

Terabytes of data already exist on farm computers in Australia, the United States, and around the world. But as the Centre-sponsored Soil and Big Data conference heard, what really matters is the meaning farmers extract...

The ability to collect, combine, and analyse massive amounts of electronic data about the nation’s farms is already afoot in the United States. But the Centre-sponsored Soil and Big Data conference heard that the...