Legumes and Nitrogen Fixation

Useful resources for legume growers

Has your inoculation worked this year? Do you need to inoculate in future?

Assessing nodulation is easy to do and doesn’t take a lot of time. New fact sheets are being developed to guide growers about the method, tips on what adequate nodulation looks like, and troubleshooting poor nodulation.

Grower guides to assessing legume nodulation

Towards solving the problem of poor nodulation of beans on acid soils

Improving the nodulation of broad bean / faba bean on acid soils (field trials 2015)

Inoculation with Rhizobia

Nitrogen management on farm and the economic benefits of inoculation

• Managing Legume and Fertiliser N for Northern Grains Cropping
• Nitrogen fixation and N benefits of chickpeas and faba beans in northern farming systems

Independent information on products and formulations

• Australian Inoculant Research Group
• National Code of Practice and Quality Trademark for Legume Microbial Inoculant Products

Project team