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Improving the Pastoral Value of Saline Soils
NOTE: To improve the pastoral value of saline soil sites would require major changes in management i.e. irrigation with oversowing and top dressing or drilling of exotic pasture species. Such management would remove the salts from the soil, and favour the establishment and growth of exotic pasture species. This goal would therefore greatly reduce the conservation values associated with saline soil habitats.
GUIDELINE:
No information has been provided by farmers to help provide management guidelines. However, pastoral development would require irrigation, with the introduction of pasture species by drilling or over-sowing and top dressing. These activities would change the salinity status of the soils, and alter the vegetation in favour of pasture species, resulting in a loss of the special, and often rare plants, associated with saline soils.
 if you want more information on how to use these areas for sheep grazing whilst not compromising the conservation values present.
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