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  • Making better use of your lime budget
    Making better use of your lime budget
    Region: West, 2023-06-23T09:00:00+10:00

    Applying enough lime to manage acidity in a smaller area has advantages over applying low lime rates across more hectares. The longer-term effect from using a higher lime rate as part of a ‘treat it properly’ strategy is higher yields for longer and better cash flow.

  • Paddock drainage trials show promising results
    Paddock drainage trials show promising results
    Region: West, 2023-06-09T11:00:00+10:00

    GRDC investments, South Coast NRM and Stirlings to Coast Farmers are exploring the potential return on investment of subsurface water management options.

  • Upcoming grower forums provide ‘front door’ to GRDC
    Upcoming grower forums provide ‘front door’ to GRDC
    Region: West, 2023-06-02T11:00:00+10:00

    Upcoming grower forums held across the grainbelt by the GRDC will offer growers a chance to raise local issues directly with GRDC.

  • What value can precision ag tools bring to your business?
    What value can precision ag tools bring to your business?
    Region: West, 2023-06-02T09:00:00+10:00

    Although digital ag tool development in Australia is quite advanced, there is a disconnect between the developers and the adopters – growers. The Society of Precision Agriculture Australia is dedicated to improving the sustainability of Australia’s agriculture production systems through adoption of these tools. To this end, grower co-designed workshops are being supported by GRDC and run by the Society across the country.

  • HRZ high-yielding canola nutrient dynamics
    HRZ high-yielding canola nutrient dynamics
    Region: West, 2023-06-01T09:00:00+10:00

    Canola nutrition research in the HRZ of Western Australia has highlighted the importance of balancing nutrient applications and alleviating any macronutrient deficiency to achieve high yields.

  • Tool to assist nitrogen decisions tested on the ground
    Tool to assist nitrogen decisions tested on the ground
    Region: West, 2023-05-31T09:00:00+10:00

    For Nick Gillett and his wife Tryphena, farming in the low rainfall zone of Western Australia, where crop performance can be thwarted by frost, every input decision is critical. Tools that can better inform these decisions are constantly being sought by Nick, including ground truthing those from start-ups such as Laconik.

  • Grower workshops to power precision ag adoption
    Grower workshops to power precision ag adoption
    Region: West, 2023-05-18T12:00:00+10:00

    Upcoming workshops by the SPAA will provide grain growers in Western Australia.

  • Can you bank nitrogen in Western Australian soils?
    Can you bank nitrogen in Western Australian soils?
    Region: West, 2023-05-05T09:00:00+10:00

    Working with 20 growers from GRDC’s National Grower Network, Dr Darren Hughes from Laconik has been investigating the nitrogen banking capacity of Western Australian soils following frosted crops. Unfortunately, it is not a source of nitrogen to be relied upon.

  • Research investigates weed control in high standing stubble
    Research investigates weed control in high standing stubble
    Region: West, 2023-04-21T09:30:00+10:00

    Weed control strategies that will ensure growers are successful when implementing a stubble-retaining strip and disc system in wheat have been identified for Western Australia’s northern agricultural region.

  • NVT harvest reports capture latest variety information  for WA growers
    NVT harvest reports capture latest variety information for WA growers
    Region: West, 2023-04-06T14:00:00+10:00

    Growers and advisers across Western Australia can now access the latest independent varietal information with the release of the GRDC NVT Harvest Reports from the 2022 season.

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