Peter W Sale
Reader, Associate Professor
Environment Sciences
La trobe university
Russian Federation
Biography
Dr Sale's current research interests are in improving the productivity of cropping and pasture soils, with a particular focus on ameliorating subsoil constraints, He also has research interets in the impacts of elevated CO2 on crop performance, on the rhizosphere and phosphorus acquisition, and in phytoremediation. He joined the staff in 1988. He was the project leader for the National Reactive Phosphate Rock Project from 1991 to 1996 and has supervised numerous postgraduate students in the field of pasture and crop agronomy. In 2008, Dr Sale published 'the second edition of Agriculture in Australia: An Introduction' with Bill Malcolm and other authors from the University of Melbourne. In 1998, he was awarded the National University Teaching Award in the section for Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. His interests in agriculture in developing countries resulted in a University Teaching Grant from the Rotary Foundation, to teach at Universities in Uganda in 2007.
Research Interest
Pasture nutrition - Assisting farmers to adopt improved practices in south Australia and developing countries - Improving performance of crop & pasture plants growing in infertile soils Soil science - Ameliorating dense clay subsoils in cropping land in south west Victoria.
