MattHowell_Agro

Agronomist with a passion for soil health and pushing the boundaries of production! Hobby farmer, 90 mile desert advocate and general pain in the backside!

[GRDC @theGRDC]

“You don’t really learn until things get tough.”

Matthew Howell shares how the hardest seasons have driven the biggest lessons - from water use to nitrogen decisions and everything in between, in this week's #GRDCinConversation podcast with @humans_of_ag.

Sometimes it’s not the good years that shape a business, it’s the challenging ones.

Listen in from Wednesday 🎧

#GRDCPodcast #HumansofAg #NextGen #CapacityBuilding #agriculture #farming

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@CropDoctor54 @seed_terminator @farmersgrowit @WeedSmartAU @PBoutsalis @AndrewThomfarms head to YP with the weedit doing headland arg management. Get a roasty brew in there!

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@gsandral India don’t screw around though, government backed purchasing - they’ll buy/tender and will take a volume. If this straight/Iran conflict continues it’ll also put further supply based pressure.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@venningj @CKMonty @Voz_Dennis @venningj did you do the same on canola? Price from mid Feb to today up approx $35/t - it’s not keeping pace with urea/fuel but it’s should have less GM shock?

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

Does anyone know a seedhawk icon system guru in Australia? Doing some VR maps and occasionally hit hiccups getting into the system. Be good to have a contact

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@LukeMilgate If it was driven by a 12 y/o without auto steer and dad was feeding sheep in the next paddock it’d be like the history of half the blokes I went to uni with 😂

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@GWGFarming @BlacketPeter Probably accurate for the Ellimatta high rainfall zone ……

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@LinkBrokering @HoolyMcg @HallRaelene I was always told the same, “lift the eyes, plan ahead and be in the gear you want to power through the problem”

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@DaveyJohn_676 @venningj @KalimarAg @agleaderAP @JamesPreuss Excellent data, great to see on farm trials of P.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@venningj @DaveyJohn_676 @KalimarAg @agleaderAP PH in H2O though @JamesPreuss, could be reading up to a full unit high compared to CaCl. Excellent trial though looking at responses.
Also be interesting to see exchangeable cation levels if available?

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@jtelferoz That’s the very thing that concerns me! I can make an investment decision based on science or data. I’m sure the data’s out there some where

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

Long shot: but has any one done any true independent trials on water conditioners in irrigation? Fair investment to install, but if it can improve the efficiency of the saline water then it’ll pay.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@JP4TheNationals Thanks JP, anecdotal data is useful to a point, and this is what’s stopping me from putting it in the snake oil category currently, but data would help me to turn it into an investment decision.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@freshy1973 Pretty challenging area to farm, the farmers in the Tailem to Cookes area are pretty resilient, adaptable and smart to make it work. There’s not a lot of forgiveness fo poor farming there.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@AndrewThomfarms @Doctor_650 @farley_mick @LienertEng got any coming past the upper south east over summer?

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@AndrewThomfarms @Doctor_650 @farley_mick Joys of being built at Kimba, if you want an extra inch, order it with an extra inch.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@AndrewThomfarms @Doctor_650 @AndrewThomfarms everything Gadj builds is Wynarka and Moorlands proof. Even your country couldn’t break it.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@ok_lyndsey This is for our business - platinum ag - on behalf of our client base, targeting their infield issues.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

Proud as punch at how this one had come together. Absolutely belting site considering the year!
Malinong, SA.

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@ok_lyndsey 6 seperate trials, 4 x wheat, 1 x oats and the striped demo is 6 different crops

[MattHowell_Agro @Howelly_Agro]

@James_Stacey_ @HoolyMcg @agbyte_leet @crossy152 @James_Stacey_ Lucerne hay already is…..😉