Pasture and crop legumes must be adequately and effectively nodulated with rhizobia bacteria if they are to be productive and able to build soil nitrogen .

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That might sound easy, but a detailed NSW DPIRD survey, some years ago, found that of 225 pasture paddocks sampled across the Central Tablelands, Central West, Monaro and Riverina regions, 93 per cent had inadequate legume nodulation.

Full details of this study are published in the CSIRO journal, Crop and Pasture Science, Volume 70, Number 12.

The paper, Soil acidity and nutrient deficiency cause poor legume nodulation in the permanen

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