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  • Planting lentils to boost profitability and benefit cereal crops
    Southern, 14 Mar 2023
    Planting lentils to boost profitability and benefit cereal crops

    With its typically warm winters and absence of frost, Barry Mudge’s farm at Port Germein, South Australia, is well-suited to lentils. Even in less-than-ideal years they can withstand poor conditions and remain profitable.

  • Canola supports weed control in a diverse rotation
    Southern, 05 Mar 2023
    Canola supports weed control in a diverse rotation

    Dual-purpose canola helps to manage weeds on a property Frank Archer manages in Tasmania.

  • Deep ripping provides strong yield response
    Southern, 13 Feb 2023
    Deep ripping provides strong yield response

    Declines in crop production on sandy soils across the Victorian Mallee after the breaking of the Millennium drought had the region’s grain growers scratching their heads.

  • Lentil market has plenty of room for Eyre Peninsula growers
    Southern, 10 Jan 2023
    Lentil market has plenty of room for Eyre Peninsula growers

    Having grown lentils successfully at Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula, Bill Long saw an opportunity to scale up on the Eyre Peninsula in areas with similar soil types and rainfall patterns but cheaper land. His property includes some challenging soils not suited to lentils, but the higher rainfall on the southern Eyre Peninsula is well-suited to other pulses.

  • Peer learning puts growers ahead of financial management curve
    Southern, 15 Dec 2022
    Peer learning puts growers ahead of financial management curve

    A group of Victorian Mallee growers are putting their heads together to boost their financial planning performance and learn from each other’s business approach. The growers, who were encouraged to form a peer learning group by former consultant agronomist and Annuello grower Peter Aikman, collaborate using business management software called P2PAgri, which automates budgeting processes.

  • Peer learning helps growers plan for profit
    Southern, 14 Dec 2022
    Peer learning helps growers plan for profit

    Peter contacted five growers he had previously worked with when he was a consulting agronomist. They agreed to collaborate and have since been workshopping their business approach for four years.

  • Research boosts yields in state’s south-east
    Southern, 24 Oct 2022
    Research boosts yields in state’s south-east

    Grower-driven research is helping grain growers in one of South Australia’s smallest cropping regions close the gap between actual and potential yields. The results can be seen in the award-winning wheat crop produced by mixed farmer Tom Bell, which won both of the state’s prizes in the second annual GRDC Hyper Yielding Crops initiative, announced in August.

  • Delight in South Australia as grower sets new wheat yield benchmark
    Southern, 22 Oct 2022
    Delight in South Australia as grower sets new wheat yield benchmark

    A dryland crop near Millicent took out both of the South Australian awards – for highest yield and highest percentage of yield potential – in the second annual GRDC Hyper Yielding Crops initiative. Tom Bell, who farms with his wife Lucy and father Greg at Emerald Farms, harvested 11.48 tonnes per hectare of RGT Accroc wheat in January.

  • EP growers look to freeze out ‘Jack’
    Southern, 08 Aug 2022
    EP growers look to freeze out ‘Jack’

    A new GRDC investment is looking to equip growers on South Australia’s central and lower Eyre Peninsula with greater knowledge and skills to mitigate the effects of frost. Agricultural Innovation and Research Eyre Peninsula is delivering the ‘Tactics to minimise frost damage on the Eyre Peninsula’ investment through GRDC’s National Grower Network over the 2022 and 2023 seasons.

  • Climate drives cover crop outcomes
    Southern, 18 Jul 2022
    Climate drives cover crop outcomes

    A research consortium has shown cover crop performance is climate-driven and highly variable depending on where crops are grown in the southern grains region. The consortium was supported by a network of grower groups that facilitated on-farm trials to study the effects of cover crops in different growing environments spread over South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.

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