Author: Nicole Baxter
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Rain sets up season well, but poses challenges
Author: Nicole Baxter, Melissa Marino, Andrew Cooke, 2022-11-08T09:00:00+11:00Each year, GroundCover™ follows a group of growers from across Australia as they manage the cropping season. In this fifth instalment for 2022, they tell Nicole Baxter, Melissa Marino and Andrew Cooke how their winter crops are tracking.
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Tasmanian grower earns top gong in agronomy awards
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-11-03T09:12:00+11:00A Tasmanian wheat crop has ranked first in GRDC’s 2021 Hyper Yielding Crops awards.
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Mills turn weed seeds into dust
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-11-01T09:00:00+11:00Mechanical weed seed destruction is helping to drive down the weed seed population on a family farm near Culcairn, New South Wales.
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Crop disease levels push to new highs
Author: Nicole Baxter & Claire Crawford, 2022-09-27T09:00:00+10:00Six agronomists and one researcher share their disease observations from across Australia.
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Long-standing panelist shines a light on critical research
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-09-06T09:00:00+10:00John Minogue spent 11 years as a GRDC panel member. Here he reflects on research that has made a difference to grower returns.
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How profitable is your harvester set-up?
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-09-03T09:00:00+10:00Measuring harvester grain losses is the first step to putting more profit in your pocket at harvest
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Global grains specialist honoured
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-08-26T10:30:00+10:00Former GRDC board member and Southern Panel chair Tim Reeves earned an Order of Australia in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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Stripe rust detected in wheat east of the Nullarbor
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-08-13T09:00:00+10:00Six agronomists from across Australia share how their clients are working to protect their crops against cereal diseases
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Lasers and electricity show weed zapping potential
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-07-26T09:00:00+10:00Researchers at the University of Sydney are exploring two new tools that could be developed to control weeds in crops
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Researchers test non-selective electrical weeding
Author: Nicole Baxter, 2022-07-25T09:00:00+10:00A weed management tool that uses electricity to kill weeds is undergoing tests in Western Australia