Alexandra Taylor

Lead Oat Technician at @InterGrain1
Bachelor of Science (Agribusiness) Curtin University

[Alexandra Taylor @alextaylor_0]

@cam_ritchie1 @InterGrain1 This is our first year trialling grazing in a paddock setting. We're hoping to find out as much information as we can. @AllanRattey will definitely be happy to talk about opportunities to graze oats at any 2026 field days you find him at!

[Alexandra Taylor @alextaylor_0]

Channelling our inner sheep and completing our first grazing cut on our grazing trial in York.
We have 3 trials across Australia with 3 grazing treatments in each.
This trial was sown on 13th April into moisture at 7cm. The oats are coming up well #oats @InterGrain1

[Matt Naumann @mattynaum]

It is this time of year our trial sites are aiming to get sown. In this site on the Southern Downs Qld, we are looking at Oats and the effects of crown rot and also depth of sowing. A little help from an irrigation was required to ensure planting was successful. @Intergrain1

[Allan Rattey @AllanRattey]

Oats @GRDC_NVT trial sown 17th April is land of the Giants!!! Most lines 100-150cm tall (Kingbale) with lodging. #Minnie #Oats stands out from the crowd!!!

[Simon Williamson @MerinoSi]

Minnie oats.
Doesn't seam too mini to me. Absolutely powering away. I recon it pushed up 100mm this week. The third node is now visible. 🤞🤞 for a kind spring, 🙏🙏 for some good finishing rains, and then call the bank manager💰💰.
@InterGrain1

[Allan Rattey @AllanRattey]

Oats at its' ideal sowing window, Esperance port zone. Strips at Grass Patch sown 13th April, spring wheat badly frosted, winter wheat just flowering vs #Oats basically untouched by frost or heat, Goldie harvest late October. Highlight crop diversity as frost mitigation tool

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

It was an honour to launch AH wheat Dale in Hyden at the Holt Rock Field Day on Wednesday. Dale is named after former Hyden farmer and inaugural InterGrain chairman Dale Baker. It was wonderful to be joined by local farmers and members of Dale’s family to celebrate this exciting variety. For more information on Dale wheat, follow the link https://t.co/r12mWBTR5y

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

Oat phenology 🌱
We're running an experiment to help understand:
- how early can we sow oats to minimise risk
- if the critical period for spring oats is different to wheat & barley
- simulating grazing to understand the impact on phenology & biomass @AllanRattey

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

Northern WA Territory Manager @richiemarsland helping to seed an oat demo trial at Mingenew, WA. This demo will put Goldie, Minnie, Kultarr, Wallaby, Archer & Bannister to the test. Thanks to Smyth Agri services & Moss Ag for their help.

[Allan Rattey @AllanRattey]

Oats are Just Right for early sowing into deep moisture. No rain in sight, @Christo58521242 put #Oat seed down fert tube ~2 weeks ago near Wagga. Happy days!!! Initial research with CSIRO + DPIRD for WA sand, but works in soil East Coast too 😁

[Allan Rattey @AllanRattey]

To help answer "how early" too sow #Oats in WA, we've got pots outside vs winter wheat. TOS1; 20 days ago, Goldie has 3rd tiller; Illabo wheat still main tiller only. TOS2 just up. With good rain in Sth WA, sow now for optimum hay for Wallaby
@alextaylor_0

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

And we are off for the 2025 season! First oat and wheat trials are in the ground at Mount Barker, WA thanks to @kalyx_australia 🌱

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

Have you ever wondered what variety selection looks like? Our Oat Lead Alex Taylor explains the process while her and the oat team harvest single plants at our WA production site 🌱

[GIWA @GrainIndustryWA]

Over 250 growers, industry & agribusiness gathered at OATSPO to see the latest oat research being undertaken with the support of the State Government funded & industry led Processed Oat Partnership, @GRDCWest & others in the oat supply chain. Read more 👉

https://t.co/kYx5tadVSA

[Georgia Trainor @G_ctrain]

While most of the @InterGrain1 crew were at Oatspo this Tuesday, I was a few hundred kms away talking about oats (& barley) at the @SEPWA_ag Condingup Beaumont field day. It was great to check out the first oat trials in the region for quite some time. An exciting opportunity!

[Alexandra Taylor @alextaylor_0]

Our new milling oat variety, Minnie, has been released at the @GrainIndustryWA #Oatspo @InterGrain1 is slowly building our range of milling oat varieties with Goldie and now Minnie. #oats

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

Taking a look at a new potential future release - quick oat variety 15175-56 with agronomist @TomStanicich south of Koorda. Sown at 33 kg/ha germinating around the 3rd of June with less than 100mm so far this season.

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

Last week Territory Manager @RehnFreebairn presented an oat breeding update at AFIA's National Fodder Conference. Rehn touched on a number of topics including the technology used to assess new varieties and their paddock performance to help select the next suite of oaten hay varieties. @AusFodder

[InterGrain @InterGrain1]

Sowing deep & early to chase moisture was the main topic of discussion at the @CFIG_AG Oat Agronomy & Deep Seeding field walk yesterday. Oat Breeder @AllanRattey spoke about the the great fit that oats have in this space & their ability to emerge from depth to get going early.

[Alexandra Taylor @alextaylor_0]

The @InterGrain1 oats team had a great day out yesterday at our deep sown oats trial near Corrigin. Goldie and our next variety to be released (15010-09) showing great biomass from depth.
Thanks to @CFIG_AG for hosting the field day.
@SLR_Agriculture
#deepsownoats
#oats