Soils of the Vineyards of the Great Western District
This report was prepared by Nabil Badawy of the former Department of Agriculture in 1982. A soil survey was conducted aiming to describe and map the distribution of the various soil types used for growing grapevines in the former Shires of Stawell and Ararat. The report summarises soil data and other relevant information for the vineyards surveyed in the Great Western area.
It was envisaged that the data included in this report would be used as the basis for initiating future soil-water-plant studies in order to maximise grape production in western Victoria.
Note that soils in this report are described in terms of the earlier Northcote Factual Key classification. Today, the Australian Soil Classification is the standard for classifying Australian soils.
 | Acknowledgement (PDF 602KB) |
| Section 1 - Scope and Purpose of the Investigation (PDF 602KB) | |
| Section 2 - General Information about the area (PDF 602KB) | |
| Section 3 - Soil Survey Methods (PDF 137KB) | |
| Section 4 - Survey Results (PDF 1.2Mb) | |
| Part I - Best's Vineyards (PDF 545KB) | |
| Part II - Kimbarra (PDF 409KB) | |
| Part III - Seppelt's Great Western Vineyards (PDF 1.5Mb) | |
| Part IV - Westgate (PDF 624KB) | |
| References and Appendices (PDF 125KB) | |
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