Climate change and soil headaches, but silicon has solution for crops, pasture

Mike Foley
Updated August 8 2017 - 12:41pm, first published 4:30am
Dr Scott Johnson with a rain exclusion shelter that is being used in early research of silicon and grasses. A variety of shelters are used to deliver pasture a range of rainfall patterns.
Dr Scott Johnson with a rain exclusion shelter that is being used in early research of silicon and grasses. A variety of shelters are used to deliver pasture a range of rainfall patterns.

IT is cheap, in abundant supply as an industrial waste product, and now new research could help deploy slag from steel making as a crucial defence mechanism for grazing and cropping.

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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