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  • Ten tips to reduce the risk of harvester fires this season
    Harvest, 14 Oct 2024
    Ten tips to reduce the risk of harvester fires this season

    Recent GRDC Harvester Set-up Workshops run across Australia’s grain growing regions have highlighted the importance of harvester hygiene and maintenance, especially when harvesting more volatile crops such as lentils.

  • Selecting grain protectants this harvest
    Harvest, 10 Nov 2023
    Selecting grain protectants this harvest

    GRDC's latest cereal protectants offer enhanced pest management. Key for growers: rotating Spinosad, Deltamethrin, Fenitrothion, Chlorpyrifos-methyl to prevent resistance, maintain grain quality, and meet Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs).

  • Measure harvest losses to save time and make money
    Harvest, 11 Aug 2023
    Measure harvest losses to save time and make money

    At the culmination of every cropping season, time is of the essence to bring crops into the bins. Taking time before harvest to build harvester know-how and assess and benchmark grain losses during harvest can win extra returns.

  • Optimising seed-saving strategies starts at harvest
    Harvest, 13 Dec 2022
    Optimising seed-saving strategies starts at harvest

    Fungal diseases have hit grain crops across southern Australia hard this season, so growers need to plan their harvest to help them retain high-quality seed suitable for sowing next season.

  • Phase two of GRDC’s Harvest Losses project announced
    Harvest, 09 Dec 2022
    Phase two of GRDC’s Harvest Losses project announced

    For a second successive year, the GRDC has invested in an assessment of harvest losses in Western Australia to understand the optimum balance between acceptable grain loss and operational efficiency to minimise cost and maximise profits.

  • Knowledge shared to safely recover bogged machinery
    Harvest, 06 Dec 2022
    Knowledge shared to safely recover bogged machinery

    Almost 600 growers gathered in New South Wales recently to share knowledge and experience on extracting bogged farm equipment safely

  • Find your harvesting sweet spot
    Harvest, 05 Dec 2022
    Find your harvesting sweet spot

    Growers have the opportunity to reclaim more of the grain they have worked hard to grow, as shown by a recent GRDC supported WA harvest loss study. Harvester adjustments can be made firstly by assessing losses for each crop and season using drop trays and then balancing these adjustments to harvest capacity.

  • A wet harvest across the north: grower resources and an update on conditions
    Harvest, 16 Nov 2022
    A wet harvest across the north: grower resources and an update on conditions

    Northern growers, particularly those farming in NSW, are feeling the pinch of widespread flooding and ongoing rain, with wet conditions downgrading grain quality, prolonging harvest and in worst cases, completely wiping out crops.

  • Warning issued for growers harvesting wet paddocks
    Harvest, 07 Nov 2022
    Warning issued for growers harvesting wet paddocks

    Exceptional rainfall across southern and eastern Australia means many growers will be faced with harvesting crops in very wet conditions.

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