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Date: Saturday 7 August - 8.00 am - 5.00 pm
Cost: $100.00 per person
Restrictions: None
This full day tour will travel about an hour
west of Brisbane to the Lockyer Valley - an area known as the food bowl of
South East Queensland. Highly productive alluvia lies in valleys of sandstone,
below the basalt hills of the Great Dividing Range. The tour will visit a
dryland salinity site (one of hundreds in the area) used for research by the University
of Queensland, before stopping at the Gatton Research Station, a large centre
for horticultural research.
There we will learn about local production constraints and management
techniques and view some of the key alluvial soils. After lunch, we will travel
up the Valley to a number of production areas, before returning to Brisbane
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