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.
Table 1: Saltland management case studies in Western Australia
| Rainfall (mm) | Location | Name | Management | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <410mm rainfall | ||||
| 290 | Bonnie Rock | Hayden Sprigg | YouTube video. Bringing dry country to life. Perennial and salt tolerant fodder shrubs. | 2021 |
| 300 | Miling | Tony and Peta White | YouTube video. Saltland recovery and production. | 2020 |
| 310 | Shackleton | Greg Tippet | YouTube Video. Direct seeding of saltbush | 2011 |
| 330 | Tammin | Rodney and Janet Stokes | YouTube Video. Optimising Anameka fodder shrubs for dryland sheep production. | 2022 |
| 370–410 | Jerramungup | Jodi Duncan | YouTube video. Perennials that payoff. Perennial shrubs and pastures: saltbush, tall wheat grass, puccinellia | 2020 |
| 390 | Ongerup | John Harding | YouTube video. Tall wheat grass - a cropping solution to salinity. Harvesting tall wheat grass for reseeding and hay. No sheep. | 2020 |
| >410mm rainfall | ||||
| 430 | Broomehill | Craig Bignell | YouTube video. Containment feeding on saltland. Saltbush, perennial salt tolerant grasses, lucerne. Confinement feeding of Merinos in the saline area. | 2020 |
| 440 | Pingelly | Garry Page | YouTube video (SWCC). Enriching pastures and profits with high-value forage shrubs. Saltbushes and other fodder shrubs for livestock. | 2018 |
| 480 | Cranbrook | Ian Walsh | YouTube video. Foraging for the future. Saltbush and understorey forage for the future, revegetation, saltbush lines, methane reduction | 2016 |
| 480 | Cranbrook | Sam Lehman | YouTube video. Resilience through perennials and saltbush | 2017 |
| 500 | Duranillin, West Arthur | Gary and Ros Abbott | YouTube video. A place for perennials. | 2020 |
| 500 | Tambellup, North Stirlings | Kim Oliver | YouTube video. A future covered in perennials. Saltbush with understorey mix of tall wheat grass, puccinellia, lucerne and kikuyu. | 2020 |
| 500 | Tambellup, North Stirlings | Michael White | YouTube video. Perennials, essential to the farm system. Trees, alley systems, lucerne, tall wheat grass. | 2020 |