The cold always bothered me anyway. ❄️
Late spring frosts are becoming more frequent and damaging due to climate change.
Here's how our research with @theGRDC is improving frost tolerance in wheat: https://t.co/UcJQMuHMSY
Jeremy Whish @CSIRO shows soil sampling gear from 1850s and soil/grain samples from longest running field trials in the world (Rothamsted 180yrs) on manure/fertiliser effects on crop production. Also Sir R Fishers calculator - the inventor of ANOVA, father of modern statistics.
Here’s what wheat looks like after 180 years in a row of either no manure or fertiliser (bottom L) or 14 and 35 t/ha of farmyard manure every year (top L). Agronomist Paul Poulton explains the trial while Jeremy Whish @CSIRO contemplates how he would manage that much data.
Berlin- Dahlem long-term trial centenary. AgroJAK getting some tips from Wolfgang Kohn who’s been part of the systems trial for 56 years. Quote” it takes 20-30 years to see key differences”. Luckily we have modelling #APSIM, @theGRDC
Dr Jeremy Whish discussing the design and operations of the large patchCROP experiment at ZALF in Germany with Dr Moritz Reckling and Dr Kathrin Grahmann. Large field plots of different systems arranged across the landscape according to soil type and compared with nearby fields.
Field day at the 100-year long term experiment at Berlin-dahlem in Germany - here we listen to how climate variability has affected the performance of crops and sequences
Last week, I joined @CSIRO delegates Dr. John Kirkegaard @AgroJAK & Dr. @JeremyWhish at Copenhagen University's Taastrup campus @KU_PLEN. Grateful for the enlightening exchange on crop production. Thanks to Prof. Kristian T-Kristensen, Prof. @DorteDresboll, and their teams!
Wagga. The first early sown varieties are in the ground for the 6th season of @theGRDC-funded farming systems research trial on converting rainfall into profit over a crop sequence.
more info https://t.co/WIoJebDIMo
@MathewDunn19 @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY @CSIRO@AgroJAK@tony_swan64
Congratulations to @rebetzke_0 2023 GRDC Seed of Light Award recipient - a recognition to his dedication and research to benefit the gain growers @CSIRO#GRDCUpdates 🥳
New publication out on How to Build a Crop Model (doi: 10.1007/s13593-022-00854-9). Open access and an easy read. Share with early career scientists interested or engaged in building crop models for a cropping system framework. @lindsaywbell@NeilHuth@JeremyWhish#apsim
Learn more about @theGRDC-funded research into extracting more profit from your farming systems.
@AgroJAK discusses conversion of rainfall to profit across a 3-year crop sequence.
more info https://t.co/WIoJebDIMo
@CSIRO @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY @tony_swan64@MathewDunn19@GRDCNorth
Top effort from the @DAFQld and @CSIRO team today - 176 quadrat cuts for wheat crop biomass at Pampas farming systems experiment #FarmingSystemsNorth. Some notable differences due to crop history and N strategy.
Tony Swan discussing Legumes, N legacies, Sequences, profit and Risk at the @CSIRO@GRDCNorth farming systems field day at Greenethorpe. The weather gods were kind! Great morning with Advisers and growers on all things systems.