SouthernDIRT

Innovative Farm Technology and Trials Grower Group - Creating Vibrant, Healthy and Prosperous Farming Communities based in Kojonup, WA.

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Can changing how and when you graze lift pasture and stock performance?

Join us in Darkan Thu 5 Nov, 9am-2pm, for a hands-on workshop and a visit to our rotational grazing trial site. Small hobby blocks to large operations welcome.

Register: https://t.co/3m1G2StBLF

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Our Muster your Data workshop is underway! Maeve O’Brien doing what she does best working with producers to understand and utilise their eID data correctly!

Our Muster Project, is funded by the Australian Government through @DAFF, led by @GGA_WA

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🌱 Farming on high P-fixing soils, or suspect you might be?

We're seeking growers & advisers to share their knowledge and management practices to help guide research into phosphorus efficiency.

📋 Complete the survey: https://t.co/vPismbPYM9

#HighPFixingSoils

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How do you feed stock through summer without sacrificing your winter pastures? Watch our Feeding the Gap Workshop recap

COMING Nov 6th - a hands-on grazing workshop to boost paddock performance

Tickets: https://t.co/a6d5lt4Fme

Funded by @MLA_research

#Grazing #regenerative

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Not getting what you want from your eID gear? 🐑

Here’s the program for MUSTER Your Data on Tue 20 Oct at Marbarrup. Kojonup Ag will also be on hand with equipment and to answer questions.

Register: https://t.co/tsrAvB4wkQ

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Got eID gear in the shed but not sure you're getting the most out of it? 🐑

Join us for MUSTER Your Data, a practical morning on eID, NLIS and livestock data, with demos in the yards.

📅 Tue 20 Oct, 8:30am to 1pm
📍 Kojonup

Register: https://t.co/dacBdWCLsn

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Our project officers were at the GRDC National Grower Network forum in Tambellup last night hearing what local growers want from research. Got an idea for a trial or issue we should be exploring? Get in touch. #GRDC #NationalGrowerNetwork #WAAgriculture #growergroups

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Great turnout at the Hall's farm in Carrolup for our GRDC Harvester Set-Up Workshop with @FaceyGroup and Primary Sales Australia. Seeder workshops coming Feb 2027, dates TBC. #HarvesterSetup #HWSC #GRDC #WAAgriculture

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Our biggest Spring Field Day yet!
75 people joined us for the 2026 Southern Dirt Spring Field Day 🙌
A huge thank you to everyone who came along, & to our presenters, growers, trial hosts, sponsors & project partners who made the day possible.
A few snippets from a fantastic day.

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Finishing the day with rural land values 🚜📈
Troy Pettersson from Rabobank with a Winter 2026 market update on the forces shaping farmland values locally, across WA and nationally.
#SouthernDirt #LandValues #WAAg

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The road to Variable Rate 🗺️🚜
Jordan White from VRT Solutions on turning paddock data into practical input decisions and ultimately greater margins.
#SouthernDirt #VRT #PrecisionAg

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From paddock to market 📈🌾
CBH Specialist Commodity Trader Harrison Jones on what is influencing grain prices today – and tomorrow.
#SouthernDirt #CBH #GrainMarkets #WAAg

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One we've been VERY keen to show growers 👀🌱
Our High P-Fixing Soils trial – investigating phosphorus use efficiency, crop response and ultimately ROI from P management.
Plenty more to come from this site.
#SouthernDirt #GRDC # #HighPFixingSoils #phosphorus #SoilMgmt.

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How much N is enough – and are we getting a return? 🌾💰
Anne Wilson from SCF taking us through Year Two of the NUE in the HRZ trial, with grower perspective from trial host Courtney Piesse.
#SouthernDirt #NUE #Nitrogen #HRZ

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Always a crowd favourite 🌾
The Kojonup Cereal NVT, with Floyd Sullivan & Dion Bennett from AGT and Georgia Trainor from InterGrain taking growers through the plots.
#SouthernDirt #NVT #Cereals #WAAg

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From farm to fryer
Behind the scenes at Aus Oils Kojonup, following locally grown WA canola from seed intake through pressing and oil storage.
Great to see another part of our local supply chain firsthand.
#SouthernDirt #Canola #WAAg #AusOils

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Into the plots at the HALO Legume Cultivar Evaluation Site 🌱
Ron Yates taking growers through the cultivar work and what we're seeing locally.
#SouthernDirt #Legumes #CropResearch #WAAg #HALO

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First field stop 🚌🌾
Tori Kirk & Gustavo Boitt from CSBP taking us through the Urea Sustain trial – looking at reducing N losses and improving nitrogen use efficiency when follow-up rainfall is unreliable. #CSBP #NUE

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Better Sampling. Better Decisions. Better Returns. 🧪
Kevin Mincherton & Don Hook from Precision SoilTech on why accurate, repeatable soil sampling matters for better farm decisions.
#SouthernDirt #SoilTesting #PrecisionAg

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Paul Sanford from DPIRD talking Feed365 🌱🐑
How can mixed farming systems develop a more reliable year-round forage supply and better manage seasonal feed gaps?
#SouthernDirt #Feed365 #Pastures #WAAg