These case studies demonstrate the experience and learning of farmers and other land managers from managing dryland salinity on their own properties.
Their learning might be relevant to your management and rainfall zone. The department supplies these case studies to help farmers and other land managers learn from each other.
Using these case studies
We recommend that you find case studies that have conditions most similar to your own property (the case studies are listed by rainfall), and then contact your advisors, before committing to any expense. Other pages on this website have up-to-date information on assessing saline sites, and a range of management options.
Note: These case studies were developed by different organisations in different years. We added new videos in 2020, and some of these are of farmers in earlier case studies. Experience and climate change since the the time of the case study may have changed the costs and benefits of the options in the older case studies. Contact details on older case studies is now unlikely to be correct.
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Table 1 Saltland management case studies in Western Australia |
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Rainfall mm |
Location |
Name |
Management |
Year |
|
250–300 |
Moorine Rock |
Saltbush, wind erosion and reclamation |
2013 |
|
|
285 |
Wubin |
Keith, Rosemary, and Boyd Carter |
Saltbush rows and mixed species understorey |
2006 |
|
290 |
Bonnie Rock |
YouTube video. Bringing dry country to life. Perennial and salt tolerant fodder shrubs. |
2021 |
|
|
300 |
Bullaring |
Charlie Bell |
Saltbush rows, perennial pasture and tree belts |
2006 |
|
300 |
Bruce Rock |
Grant Robinson |
Saltbush rows and pasture or barley in the inter-row |
2006 |
|
300 |
Ravensthorpe |
Jeff and Marilyn Tink |
Saltbush paddock, salt tolerant grass paddock, lucerne on non-saline paddock |
2006 |
|
300 |
Pithara |
Gary and Kerry Butcher |
Saltbush rows with sub-tropical perennial grasses and lucerne in the inter-row |
|
|
300 |
Miling |
YouTube video. Saltland recovery and production. |
2020 |
|
|
300 |
Kalannie |
Robert and Helen Nixon |
Groundwater pumping |
|
|
300 |
Yealering |
Buster Dawes |
Saltbush for sheep |
|
|
300 |
Yealering |
YouTube Video. Productive saltland in Western Australia. Saltbush for sheep |
2015 |
|
|
300 |
Bruce Rock |
Saltbush instead of samphire |
2013 |
|
|
310 |
Shackleton |
YouTube Video. Direct seeding of saltbush |
2011 |
|
|
310 |
Shackleton |
YouTube Video. Turning saltlands into productive pastures |
2020 |
|
|
320 |
Mukinbudin |
Phil and Caroline Smith |
Saltbush and mulla mulla |
2006 |
|
325 |
Trayning |
Bart and Denella Hulls |
Saltbush grazed by sheep and cattle |
2006 |
|
325 |
Trayning |
Bart and Denella Hulls |
Saltland grazing for cattle |
|
|
325 |
Trayning |
YouTube video. Block planting of saltbush |
2011 |
|
|
325 |
Ballidu |
Bernie Driscoll |
Bluebush, saltbush, salt tolerant understorey |
2006 |
|
325 |
Canna |
Cameron and Teresa Tubby |
Drainage, saltbush rows and perennial grasses in the inter-row |
2006 |
|
325 |
Wagin |
Howie Ward |
Drainage, saltbush rows with mixed understorey in alleys |
2009 |
|
325 |
Wyalkatchem |
Ian and Di Haggerty |
Saltbush and a mix of understorey pasture species |
2006 |
|
325 |
Katanning |
John Pepall |
Saltbush rows and perennial understorey |
2006 |
|
325 |
Meckering |
Robert, David and Glenn Beard |
Lucerne |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
325 |
Doodlakine |
YouTube Video. Saltbush systems for sheep |
2011 |
|
|
325 |
Doodlakine |
YouTube Video. I was embarrassed – not now |
2011 |
|
|
325 |
Doodlakine |
YouTube Video. Controlling iceplant in saltbush |
2011 |
|
|
325 |
Doodlakine |
YouTube Video. Improving growth and palatability. Trialling fertiliser on saltbush |
2011 |
|
|
325 |
Wallatin and O’Brien Creek |
Wallatin and O’Brien Creek Catchments CDI1 project |
Surface water management, deep drains, siphons, groundwater pumping, perennial pastures, saltland pastures, riparian management, remnant vegetation protection |
2010 |
|
330 |
Lake Grace |
Michael and Margaret Lloyd |
Extensive saltbush systems |
|
|
330 |
Tammin |
YouTube Video. Optimising Anameka fodder shrubs for dryland sheep production. |
2022 |
|
|
340 |
Beverley |
Deane Aynsley |
Saltbush and subtropical grasses |
2006 |
|
350 |
Quairading |
Earthworks, saltbush, mixed understorey |
2007 |
|
|
350 |
Fitzgerald River |
Fitzgerald River Catchment CDI1 project |
Revegetation, claying, saltland pastures, perennial pastures, liming, surface water management, deep drainage, dams |
2010 |
|
358 |
Pingrup |
Ted and Tony Altham |
Saltbush and perennial pasture understorey |
2006 |
|
370 |
Jerramungup |
Terry and Linda Lee |
Saltbush, bluebush, puccinellia, tall wheat grass, annual legumes |
2006 |
|
370–410 |
Jerramungup |
YouTube video. Perennials that payoff. Perennial shrubs and pastures: saltbush, tall wheat grass, puccinellia |
2020 |
|
|
370 |
Tammin |
YouTube video. Improving the productivity of saltland pastures. From bare ground to productive grazing with bluebush |
2011 |
|
|
370 |
Tammin |
YouTube video. Improvong the productivity of livestock. Training sheep to eat saltbush. |
|
|
|
375 |
Kukerin |
Saltbush rows and wide range of perennials and annuals in alleys |
2009 |
|
|
390 |
Ongerup |
YouTube video. Tall wheat grass - a cropping solution to salinity. Harvesting tall wheat grass for reseeding and hay. No sheep. |
2020 |
|
|
400 |
Tambellup |
Barry Witham |
Saltbush, tall wheat grass, puccinellia, Rhodes grass, lucerne, |
2006 |
|
400 |
Moora |
Brad and Natalie Tonkin |
Bluebush, saltbush |
2007 |
|
400 |
Woodanilling |
Gradyn Wilcox |
Saltbush, acacia, subtropical perennial grasses, tall wheat grass |
2007 |
|
400 |
Nomans Lake |
Greg Astbury |
Perennial mixtures |
2009 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
400? |
Upper Coblinine |
Upper Coblinine catchment CDI1 project |
Lucerne, banks, revegetation, key dams |
2010 |
|
425 |
Katanning |
Adrian Richardson |
Saltbush, subtropical perennial grasses |
2009 |
|
425 |
Borden |
Richard and Nanette Sounness |
Phase farming with lucerne |
|
|
425 |
Wagin |
Greg, Glenys and Ben Hall |
Tree crops |
|
|
432 |
Broomehill |
Craig Bignell |
Saltbush, subtropical perennial grasses, tall wheat grass, puccinellia, legumes. |
2007 |
|
430 |
Broomehill |
YouTube video. Containment feeding on saltland. Saltbush, perennial salt tolerant grasses, lucerne. Confinement feeding of Merinos in the saline area. |
2020 |
|
|
438 |
Tambellup |
George and Dean Hull |
Drainage, revegetation, saltbush, perennial grasses |
2006 |
|
440 |
Pingelly |
YouTube video (SWCC). Enriching pastures and profits with high-value forage shrubs. Saltbushes and other fodder shrubs for livestock. Part of the Enrich Program with South West Catchment Council (SWCC). Interview with Garry Page. |
2018 |
|
|
450 |
Wagin |
Farms with a future vision |
Banks, water harvesting, dams, tree lines |
|
|
450 |
Walkaway |
Grant and Elyssa Bain |
Subtropical perennials |
? |
|
480 |
Cranbrook |
YouTube video. Foraging for the future. Saltbush and understorey forage for the future, revegetation, saltbush lines, methane reduction |
2016 |
|
|
480 |
Cranbrook |
YouTube video. Resilience through perennials and saltbush |
2017 |
|
|
484 |
Gillingarra |
Gillingarra Catchment CDI1 project |
Tagasaste, saltland pastures, farm forestry, native vegetation protection, |
2010 |
|
500 |
Duranillin, West Arthur |
Gary and Ros Abbott |
Saltbush rows with tall wheat grass and puccinellia in the alleys |
2009 |
|
500 |
Duranillin, West Arthur |
YouTube video. A place for perennials. |
2020 |
|
|
500 |
Gibson, Esperance |
Esperance Downs Research Station |
Surface water management |
|
|
500 |
Tambellup, North Stirlings |
YouTube video. A future covered in perennials. Saltbush with understorey mix of tall wheat grass, puccinellia, lucerne and kikuyu. |
2020 |
|
|
500 |
Tambellup, North Stirlings |
YouTube video. Perennials, essential to the farm system. Trees, alley systems, lucerne, tall wheat grass. |
2020 |
|
|
550 |
Wandering |
Steve and Marie Watts |
River saltbush, old man saltbush, tall wheat grass, tall fescue, phalaris, puccinellia, strawberry clover and Rocket ryegrass |
2009 |
|
550 |
Bibby Springs |
Gary Peacock |
Raised beds, barley and pasture |
|
|
573 |
Moora |
Peter and Lois Kelly |
Tall wheat grass, puccinellia, Rhodes grass, NyPa grass, lucerne, and trees |
2007 |
|
600 |
Wooroloo |
El Caballo Golf Resort |
Salt water couch, seashore paspalum or saltene, surface and subsurface drainage |
|
|
650 |
Boyup Brook |
Richard Walker |
Surface drainage, large pasture mix including tall fescue, phalaris, white clover, subclover, plantain and chicory |
2006 |