Description: This collection reviews current research on understanding nutrient cycles, the ways crops process nutrients, the environmental effects of fertilizer use and how this understanding can be used to improve nutrient use efficiency for a more resource-efficient and climate-smart agriculture.
Brief description: John Angus graduated B. Agr. Sc. and PhD from the University of Melbourne. He worked as a Research Scientist at CSIRO Canberra from 1973 until 2010, with visiting scientist positions at the International Rice Research Institute and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science along the way. After retirement he remains an honorary fellow at CSIRO and is also an adjunct professor at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga. He is a fellow of the Australian and American Societies of Agronomy and has served as President of the Agronomy Australia. He was the 2006 recipient of the Australian Medal of Agricultural Science and the 2019 recipient of the Colin Donald medal of Agronomy Australia . His scientific interests are the efficiency of water and nitrogen cycles and how crop and pasture sequences affect the productivity and sustainability of dryland farming systems. He runs a farm in Stockinbingal, with his wife, Patricia. The farm produces wheat, barley, canola and pulses on half the arable area, rotating with perennial pastures that produce fine merino wool and crossbred lambs on the other half. Ten percent of the farm area is remnant vegetation.