Dr
John Kirkegaard
FAA
John Kirkegaard is an outstanding agricultural scientist who has made major contributions towards improving agricultural productivity both nationally and internationally. He is highly regarded for his ability to invent novel crop management packages, based on penetrating science, and to integrate them into existing farming systems so that they are rapidly adopted. He played a key role in the successful adoption of conservation farming systems (i.e. farming without ploughing the soil). He identified and then overcame the biological mechanisms causing poor yield of crops in these practices, and greatly increased the effectiveness with which crops use water and nutrients.
Fields of research
30 AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES-
3002
AGRICULTURE, LAND AND FARM MANAGEMENT
- 70107 Farming Systems Research
For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .
Expertise type
- Soil Biology
- Water
- Plant Roots
- Plant Reproduction
- Crop Science
- Crop Rotation
- Legumes
- Tillage
- Wheat
- Canola
- Organic Matter
- Agricultural Science
- Biology
- Food Security
- Nutrients
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