Jake Plattfuss

Oversized sandpit operator

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@nig_michael We spread at 40m with ours. We got it Fertcare tested 2 yrs ago and spreads 40-45m accurately with avg urea. There great

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@Tedthekelpie @agrobaz @1dirtyboot That is one option. Got a trial in this year of mulched and standing, with 250mm, 500mm and a weird twin row bean spacing. Was trying to avoid the extra work of Mulching. Our Morris c2 has terrible trash flow but good seed placement.

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@Tedthekelpie @agrobaz @1dirtyboot Flood irrigation bays potentially slowing watering speed and or waterlogging

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@Tedthekelpie @agrobaz @1dirtyboot Nah wrecks efficiency in big crops and half the times stubble still half green. Currently using redheads to get through but wanna try and plant beans into standing stubble and maybe only burn 1 in 4yrs. Don’t want a disc seeder. Also have complexity of too much stubble in

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@agrobaz @Tedthekelpie @1dirtyboot Trying to come up with the ‘perfect seeder’ for sowing through big irrigated stubbles. There is always a compromise it seems

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@agrobaz @Tedthekelpie @1dirtyboot Baz. How do we think the bridge frames go for ‘tracking’ for inter row sowing vs wheels in frame bar

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@charlieblack31 @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth Have had 30kg sowing rate yield the same. More seed doesn’t equal more yield. Normally at 60-70

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

Has anyone got any work on row spacings in aus in a double digit irrigated yield environment. 12 inch vs 6, same machine, same rates, same hour. A fair amount of light hitting the ground in the 12 inch rows. @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@charlieblack31 @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth Prob needs to be repeated in a more randomized pattern but hard to do with commercial gear. Appears reduce sowing rate on wide rows and increase on narrow. 🤷‍♂️

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@CKMonty @OzIndustries It’s been better. About 94 times in the last 100.

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@FredVLarsen After 3yrs how do you think it is going? How have the yeilds been compared to the conventional system and or how much n have you created or organic matter have you built in the soil etc?

[katy 🌸 @KatyKray73]

“Net zero is going to have absolutely no effect on the climate whatsoever. The vast majority of the globe in both population and GDP are not participating in it, So why are we doing this to ourselves?”

Wonderful speech by Barnaby Joyce. 👏🏽

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@brodenholland Trying some n later to try and get a better harvest index?
Seems to be the key for irrigated wheat.

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@kelvin_hams Nice. On a side note which tractor do you rate the most of the two, and how are they steering with the greenstar

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@agrobaz @BarryGr66 @Tallawanta Can’t let the other 99% of growers in the industry loose a critical product based on an ‘assumption’. The cost to the rest would be huge.

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@AgroJAK @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag What’s your current observations from the past 2 yrs John ?

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@agrobaz @John_R_Bruce @brill_ag @ZwarFarms What’s the canola secret baz? Our fully irrigated program we can’t get canola past 40% of wheat. Tried everything in the book so far incl gm, cl, on beans, nitrogen, water etc. Is it a soil type thing. We are prob in a softer environment than you guys?

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@brodenholland Maybe we need to be talking about farming more in units of output that everyday city people can understand.
Yes we used 5l of roundup per ha this year to grow the 18000 loaves of bread per ha. Or yeah our business grew 10 million boxes of weetbix this year.

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@agrobaz @MaurieStreet $7 in a shuttle. Using for pulses. But yeah havnt tried in canola, hence the question. Might run some strips out and test difference

[Jake Plattfuss @JakePlatty]

@agrobaz @MaurieStreet 3l x$7. Say $30 incl app. No more costly than windrowing if spray tracks in paddock already, or by plane. Only has to speed up harvest by 5% @$600 /rotor hr to be cost neutral. 5ks /hr to 6ks is doubling your money. 🤷‍♂️