Welcome to the Soil Quality Website

Welcome to the Soil Quality Website

Using the tools provided on this website you can gain a greater understanding of the health of your soil, compare your data and examine soil relationships.

A healthy soil has biological, chemical and physical properties that promote the health of plants, animals and humans while also maintaining environmental quality.

Agricultural
Grape and Wine

Examine Your State

Examine Wine and Grape Regions

What can I do on Soil Quality?

Examine soil properties through Australia's agricultural regions.
Compare your soil test results with your neighbours.
Investigate soil quality indicator relationships.
Discover the importance of Soil Biology.

Featured Soil Calculator

Green Manure Calculator

The green manure calculator provides a comparison of relative benefits between a green manure phase and a grain crop within a defined rotational sequence. Results provide an indication of economic costs and benefits based on variable inputs.

More Calculators

Featured Fact Sheet

Labile Carbon

Although significant amounts of organic carbon are present in soils, some of this is relatively inert. Soil organic matter is made up of different pools which vary in their turnover time or rate of decomposition. The labile pool which turns over relatively ...

More Fact Sheets

Compare Your Data

Sites participating in the Soil Quality program are issued with a "Site Code" This code enables the site owner to compare their site amongst their catchments and regions.

Sbi logo