Mice are still causing nightmares for farmers and rural communities in many parts of NSW, as evidenced by this friday night footage from a family farm near Gilgandra
#nswfarmers#miceplague
Adding cereal oversown has shown to reduce the chance of a successful pasture, mainly in decile 1-3. Decile 5 still successful if sown early enough with good management. Pasture Sown alone can sometimes get success in decile 2-3. Ideally into a good stubble.
Good pasture establishment this year, comparing sown alone vs 12 inch pasture on 24 inch wheat spacing. Wheat oversown looks to be the winner this year with big wheat returns $/ha + sufficient pasture. @AuNutrien@swseedcompanyau
@agrobaz Thanks barry, cheap way to increase spectrum of activity of carbendazim. Although rust is pretty unlikely in this variety, with such a wet year we put it in, 2020 seems to be throwing everything at us. Veritas also seems very good but more costly. What do you run with?
@s_simpfendorfer Surprisingly for a 20th of April sowing there isn’t a lot of difference to plant height and maturity between lancer and off type- about 5cm height and about 7 days earlier maturity it seems.
Contaminated seed in Lancer caused a scare from stripe rust, individual plants with heavy infection with clean plants neighbouring told the tale, Lancer is holding strong with APR working
Sclerotinia in Canola trial inspection Part 2 -Join me under the canopy! Stem rot symptoms being seen near Geraldton @DPIRDbroadacre@GRDCWest#ProtectWAcrops https://t.co/B9umESa95e
Canola (OP) seed retention blocks - can we manipulate canopy via plant density to grow larger seed? How important is spatial arrangement? Trials evaluating 6,15 & 45 plants/m2 @ random and even spatial distribution. #canolaseedcrops#grdc
Exciting to see so many new pre emergent products and new modes of action hitting the market- Nutrien trials assessing 13 different mixes in Forbes. Mateno Complete, Overwatch, Luximax, Sakura, Boxer Gold, Prosulfocarb, avadex xtra, triflurx. Pic from 2 weeks ago.