Soils under threat

By Matthew Cawood
Updated December 17 2015 - 7:12pm, first published November 9 2013 - 4:00am
University of New England soil scientist Matthew Tighe at work in the rangelands.
University of New England soil scientist Matthew Tighe at work in the rangelands.

IT'S difficult to imagine Australia's rangelands soils teeming with microbes, especially in the current severe drought, but they are - and if they go, the productivity of the rangelands goes with them.

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