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Southern, 07 Oct 2024
Winter canola proves profitable at Weatherboard
Ben Findlay’s farm near Weatherboard, Victoria, utilises ungrazed winter canola, specifically the hybrid RGT Nizza CL because its flowering window suits his climate. He finds the winter varieties are about half a tonne per hectare higher yielding than the spring varieties for his area. He sows the variety from late March to early April. After applying a double knock for weeds, he targets 30 plants per square metre (about 1.8 kilograms of seed/ha) and plants as shallow as possible, applying 100kg/ha of monoammonium phosphate with the seed.
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Southern, 19 Aug 2024
Growers networking to master faba beans
Faba bean growers are tapping the experience of researchers, agronomists and fellow growers to improve yield stability and reap the agronomic benefits the legume provides
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Southern, 29 May 2024
For the love of corn: driving innovation and precision cropping
Victorian grower Ray Thornton is addicted to growing corn, and although the crop is more widely known as maize, he is quick to point out that he grows corn, the grain, not maize for silage.
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Southern, 28 May 2024
Testing time for maize fertilisers to optimise yields
When the results of recent GRDC trials suggested re-evaluating fertiliser rates, it prompted Victorian maize grower Ray Thornton to set up an unofficial trial to test rates on his property at Waaia. The recent trials were conducted as part of the GRDC ‘Optimising Irrigated Grains’ project, which included three maize trials at Kerang, Victoria, and three at Finley in southern New South Wales from 2020 to 2023.
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Southern, 01 Apr 2024
Strong yields open new chapters in cereal story
In his first year in the GRDC Hyper Yielding Crops program, sixth-generation Tasmanian beef producer and grower achieved the highest-yielding crop of wheat in Australia. The yield came with plenty of rainfall over his 330ha enterprise, but it was also aided by agronomic practices he employed as part of the program.
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Southern, 29 Mar 2024
Engagement in trials creates a cereal contender
Encouraged by a record-breaking wheat yield achieved as part of the 2022 GRDC Hyper Yielding Crops program, Tasmanian grower Hamish Yaxley has increased his overall cereal planting by 40 per cent and is now experimenting with new cultivars. He has been impressed by the results with a new, slow-maturing winter wheat variety.
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Southern, 30 Oct 2023
Trial site lifts growers’ eyes beyond current yield benchmarks
Closing the yield gap hinges on multiple management factors. South Australian grower Bruce McLean explains how he did it
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Northern, 26 Oct 2023
Motivated grower surprised to take out SA award
What did Sam Ballantyne and his family do to grow a hyper-yielding crop?
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Southern, 04 Sep 2023
New technique provides insights on liming requirements
Southern region growers who are battling acidic soils have been given the latest insights into remediation techniques and technology at a workshop in South Australia. The workshop presented trial results and research findings from the ‘Acid Soils SA’ project that is funded by GRDC and led by the South Australian Research and Development Institute.
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Southern, 01 Sep 2023
Precision liming takes variability out of the equation
South Australian Wimmera grower David Kuchel, whose properties on either side of the SA–Victorian border experience reliable rainfall of about 450 millimetres per year, has long struggled with extremely variable pH.In recent years, paddock mapping of soil acidity levels has proved a game changer. David is now able to grow crops in paddocks where he previously could not, and enjoys increased yields due to much-reduced soil pH variability.