Author: Clarisa Collis
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Multi-pronged trials road test intercropping
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-06-30T09:00:00+10:00New research is examining the potential for intercropping – the age-old backyard practice of growing two or more crops together – in broadacre cropping systems across the southern grains region. The statewide Victorian study is road testing the productivity and profitability of several approaches to intercropping compared with monoculture cropping as part of the Victorian Grains Innovation Partnership (VGIP).
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Hay enterprise underpins crop expansion
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-06-22T09:00:00+10:00A sophisticated export hay enterprise has provided a profitable, low-risk foundation for a South Australian family’s cropping expansion at Lameroo in the southern Mallee region. Grower, agronomist and GRDC southern region panelist Lou Flohr says the total farm area, including owned and leased land, has more than doubled from 2000 to 4500 hectares in the past five years.
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Hay enterprise provides risk buffer for crops
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-06-15T09:00:00+10:00Flohr and Co – a farming partnership between Lou Flohr and Andy Hunt, and Lou’s parents Gary and Janet Flohr – has built a hay enterprise that provides important refuge from seasonal risk at Lameroo in South Australia's Mallee region. The hay enterprise has also lifted the overall productivity and profitability of the 4500-hectare mixed farm business which, in turn, has facilitated cropping expansion.
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Southern push into summer legumes
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-05-29T09:00:00+10:00Alternative legume options are opening the door to summer cropping in southern farming systems.
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Glyphosate-resistant ryegrass challenge
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-05-21T09:00:00+10:00Random weed surveys identified glyphosate resistance in ryegrass plants collected from 27 per cent of paddocks in south-eastern South Australia and 40 per cent of paddocks in south-western Victoria in the 2020 season. Herbicide resistance specialist Dr Peter Boutsalis explored the “significant increase” in glyphosate-resistant annual ryegrass at the 2021 GRDC Grains Research Update in Adelaide.
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Deep thinking drives machinery development
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-05-18T09:00:00+10:00The Vennings - Todd, Brad and David - purpose-built a subsoil manuring machine from 2019 to 2021 to improve the structure of duplex brown soils, particularly the heavy clay subsoil, on their family farm at Hamilton, Victoria. The novel machine aims to remediate the soil structure with two particular functions – deep ripping and deep placement of organic matter.
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On-farm test spurs novel machine
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-05-17T09:00:00+10:00Todd and Brad Venning have built a novel subsoil manuring machine to ameliorate waterlogging-prone soils on their property near Hamilton, Victoria.
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Protein gap drives Asian grain demand
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-05-16T09:00:00+10:00Singapore-based Jean-Yves Chow from Mizuho Bank explored the “Asia protein gap”, in which the region’s demand for protein (mainly meat, grain and oilseeds) outstrips supply at the 2021 Australian Grains Industry Conference (AGIC) Asia.
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New herbicide classification system
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-04-23T09:00:00+10:00Australia’s approach to herbicide mode of action (MOA) classification is being updated to align with the new international system. Australian growers can expect to start seeing herbicide labels showing a new mode of action classification system from early 2022.
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‘Lucky’ Phil urges powerline safety
Author: Clarisa Collis, 2021-04-13T09:00:00+10:00Queensland grower Phillip Crocker has implemented measures to improve electric powerline safety following a spate of incidents on his family’s farm at Muckadilla.