Liam Whitbourne

Farmer and Agronomist. Irrigated row crop and dry-land grains in the Western Riverina.

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

Plenty of jobs still on around harvest time.
- Corn still demanding irrigation even through 35mm of 7 day rain.
- Cotton has begun squaring as it approaches 8 to 9 nodes.
- Leaf sampling corn for nutrient analysis.
- Side dressing anhydrous ammonia in our late planted silage corn

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

P1837 Maize and Sicot 746 Cotton beginning to move in a warm beginning to summer.
#summerirrigation
#cottonaustralia
#pioneerseeds

[Summit Ag Agricultural Consulting @summitagconsult]

10 plants dug up in a row with variation in seedling vigour, especially the S606. The hills were well prepared with uniform depth. Struck on rain on the 4th October then irrigated post rain.
Are you seeing this seedling vigour variation ??

- Carrathool NSW

[Jackson Byrnes @JacksonByrnes]

Hey guys. I have 36 Bags of Ausigold 62 OptiCOTE Select Seed. Bags contain 11.45kg of seed totalling 412.2kg of seed that I won’t be requiring this year. I am planning on selling it. If there is any interest, please let me know. Retweets appreciated #agchatoz

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@bernard_lexie Will do 👍

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@PatrickConlan97 Love your work Conlan

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

Last few nights spent in Toowoomba with client Ron, Susanne and Adam Harris of Ramps Ridge who were nominated for Australian Cotton Grower of the Year. Didn’t come home with the chocolates but was a great experience and excellent effort for the nomination

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@JackPHenderson @theweeklytimes @BillyF_9 Struggle street for Billy here

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

Lettuce has proven to be a high growth asset

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

Final irrigation of the season for farmers around Hay, NSW.
With up to 300mm of in crop rain in areas, water efficiency has been excellent.
Fingers crossed for a warm finish.

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@cropmad Still rising in Carrathool. Worst is yet to hit Hay-Maude.

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

606B3F #cotton starting to emerge in the Western Riverina, 2 weeks following planting.
30mm last week and forecasted 50mm this week to help kick things into gear.

[Summit Ag Agricultural Consulting @summitagconsult]

Back planting cotton in western Murrumbidgee before the next rain event. This is a new development which had barley planted in the winter and sprayed out with Paraquat to aid in infiltration.

[Emma Ayliffe @em_ayliffe]

Got to visit one of the newest gins in central Brazil, crazy to see them going back too wood fire to dry cotton from gas due to cost! Amazing too see what goes on over here, highly recommend it goes on your ag tour bucket lists!! @summitagconsult @HeathMcwhirter #BetterFlexAus

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@JackPHenderson @SouthernFS @BillyF_9 @thomas_vearing Loves a bit of manual labour

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

DBA Vittaroi Durum Wheat and Spartacus Barley coming up off the back of a cotton pick and mulch.

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@travbenmitchell Potentially @WahroongaEnter1 may help

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@caitlinmlangley Yep was taken with a DJI phantom. Pretty handy machine for getting the birds eye view.

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

Cotton picking underway around Hay, NSW.
10-15mm of rain this week will slow things down although plenty of farmers still looking for contractors. #CottonPicking

[Liam Whitbourne @liamwhitbourne]

@caitlinmlangley Haha that couldn’t be more true!