Rob Johnston

Interested in all things on the land.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Two new exciting grain sorghum hybrids are joining the Pioneer® Seeds lineup in 2025. Ben Thrift, Pioneer® Seeds TSM & Ben Vercoe, Pioneer Seeds Summer Crop Portfolio Manager talk through the features of NEW Pioneer grain sorghum hybrids A50 and A90 at Colonsay QLD.

[Tim Lovell @TfLovell]

Corn harvest well under way, seeing some great results, started the week with a pivot averaging 21.6t/ha. Finished the week with a new Australian grain yield record of 23.3t/ha. P0937 is doing a great job. #corn #Pioneer @pioneerseedsau @IKCaldwell

[Tim Lovell @TfLovell]

Another day, another corn site trial walk. If you’re in the Finley region Maize Association Australia is running an information session at 10.30am north of Berrigan, following the session at 2.30pm I am running a walk through this site. Contact me if interested.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Tristan March (Pioneer® Research Technician) and Alex Lucas (Pioneer® Technical Support Manager) jumped on the new header to harvest the canola STRIKE (Seed Technology Research In Key Environments) site in Wagga Wagga NSW.

[Tim Lovell @TfLovell]

Pioneer Optimum Gly launch at Optus Stadium . Great to have Brad Hogg along as a guest speaker. Great product coming to market, has been a long time coming, good to have it available. @pioneerseedsau #optimumgly #pioneercanola

[Tim Lovell @TfLovell]

Spent the day going through the Pioneer canola site at Beverley WA. We have some awesome new hybrids coming through and it was great to see current hybrids elsewhere and see how they behave. The future is exciting. @pioneerseedsau #pioneercanola #canola #oilseed

[Jason Ridgway @hybrids_perform]

Cummins STRIKE trial open days in mid September and later October will be worth a look @pioneerseedsau @CortevaAU
Looking great thanks to @Headpat10

[Rob Johnston @Rob_Johnston73]

@pioneerseedsau One of the best. 40 years as a corn breeder what an amazing achievement. Aust Ag will miss you Steve. We all hope you have an amazing retirement.

[UQ Farming Systems Group @Queensland_FSR]

A new ARC ECI Fellowship was funded today titled: "Drought tolerance in sorghum: the roots of the solution" congratulations to @dongxue_zhao and team, and thanks to @pioneerseedsau @AirbornInsight @QAAFI @UQ_News for your support, 🥂 &🧉!!

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Pioneer® hybrids go through a rigorous testing programme before making it to market. Trials are conducted by the Pioneer® research team around the country each season to help determine which products to advance through the programme.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Pioneer® canola research trials continue to go into the ground around the country.
Pictured here is a time of sowing and phenology trial at Invergordon VIC. The site received 30mL of rain 4 days prior to seeding. Keep an eye out for field walks at this site, later in the season.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Canola is heading north. This year, the Pioneer Research Team is planting a series of large-scale & small-plot Pioneer® hybrid canola demonstrations, to help growers like the Wise family at Bowenville make informed decisions. Read more in Grain Central: https://t.co/B3Kf2orJHK

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

With this crop topping the scales at 9.811t/ha & others achieving impressive results, Pioneer® grain sorghum hybrid A88 has performed well across the Western Downs Region QLD.
TSM @CSRutland provides an update on this one particular dryland crop just outside of Dalby QLD.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

CONGRATS: George Duddy, 'Hudson', Willow Tree wins the Premer Shield Comp 2023, with Pioneer® A88. Great result; the Duddy family's 1st Premer Shield & also the 1st Shield win for A88. George and son Will, with judge Loretta Serafin of NSW DPI, & Sam Gall, Cam Searle of Pioneer.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

CONGRATULATIONS Dave and Tanya Peters of Allora. Today awarded 🏅CHAMPION CROP🏅at the RASQ Toowoomba Royal Show with Pioneer® brand P1756 corn which yielded 12.06t/ha of grain under dryland conditions. Pictured here with Ben Thrift, Pioneer Seeds Territory Sales Manager.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Great roll up to the Grain Sorghum Field Day at Warra QLD. Growers, agronomists and consultants taking up the opportunity to see demonstrations of current commercial and advanced experimentals, as well as advanced agronomy trials regarding plant populations and row configurations

[David Jordan @SorgGuy]

The @AustSummerGrain conference is happening on the 13-15 of March. Fantastic line up of speakers across a range of diverse topics. Time for you to register ! #ASGC23 @AusSORGM

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Tara Rural Supplies Agronomist, @AgroKylie assessing Pioneer® grain sorghum hybrid A66 on 60 inch rows at Condamine QLD. In the 2022/23 season, A66 continues to be one of the leading hybrids on the Western Darling Downs.

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

You're invited to the Pioneer® summer forage demonstration site tour at the Bunya Park Racecourse at Dalby QLD. Territory Sales Manager Chris Rutland is hosting two field walks at the site, 7am and 5pm on 18 January 2023. RSVP here: https://t.co/yggdQxgqdU

[Pioneer Seeds - Australia @pioneerseedsau]

Thanks to @Cortevaau for hosting a Pioneer® Seeds summer forage demonstration site at their Breeza (NSW) Liverpool Plains Research Station. In this video @sam_gally1 (Territory Sales Manager) talks viewers through the individual hybrids: https://t.co/HMHo2hH1Ju