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  • Emerging plants are closely monitored bi-weekly to weekly basis
    Southern, 09 Jan 2022
    Emerging plants are closely monitored bi-weekly to weekly basis

    For Andrew Bennett, good crop establishment is important because plant density leads to weed competition and maximum yields.

  • Information-seeker earns accolades for high-yielding wheat
    Southern, 15 Dec 2021
    Information-seeker earns accolades for high-yielding wheat

    Jock Binnie and his family have embraced efficient technology, pulse crops and agronomic benchmarking to create a step change in wheat yields

  • Beans recruited in pursuit of hyper-yielding wheat
    Southern, 20 Nov 2021
    Beans recruited in pursuit of hyper-yielding wheat

    Jock Binnie likes to grow faba beans because of their relative tolerance to waterlogging compared with other grain legumes, and their capacity to lift the grain yields of following wheat crops.

  • New pool quenches Tasmanian feed grain thirst
    Southern, 15 Nov 2021
    New pool quenches Tasmanian feed grain thirst

    Cereals play an important break crop role for a Tasmanian vegetable grower, but they are not without their challenges. For years, growers from the state’s north-west have faced production constraints growing wheat and barley in a high-rainfall environment which has thwarted the consistent supply of cereal grains to domestic feed grain markets.

  • Fire fright leads to emergency lift
    Southern, 19 Oct 2021
    Fire fright leads to emergency lift

    Fire safety is top of mind for South Australian grower Michael Treloar this season after lightning sparked a small – but frightening – paddock fire on his Cummins property about two weeks into harvest in November 2020. Michael, who is also a GRDC southern panelist, urges growers across the country to prioritise workplace, health and safety during this year's harvest.

  • Chilled-out award winner reaches for new yield heights
    Southern, 29 Sep 2021
    Chilled-out award winner reaches for new yield heights

    Victorian grower Ben Findlay produced the top-yielding wheat crop in southern Victoria in the 2020 Hyper Yielding Crops Awards. The sixth-generation grower received the award for growing a 31-hectare paddock of the RGT Accroc wheat variety that yielded 10.4 tonnes per hectare on his family’s ‘Heathfield’ farm at Weatherboard, 30 kilometres west of Ballarat, during the 2020 season.

  • Agronomic finesse underpins winning crop
    Southern, 28 Sep 2021
    Agronomic finesse underpins winning crop

    Weatherboard grower Ben Findlay received the ‘southern Victoria highest yield’ award for growing a 31ha paddock of the RGT Accroc wheat variety that yielded 10.4 tonnes/ha during the 2020 season. Ben explores the mix of variety selection and agronomic practices implemented on his family's farm in south-western Victoria that contributed to the award-winning wheat crop.

  • Inoculant development a key to growing pulses on acidic soils
    Southern, 27 Sep 2021
    Inoculant development a key to growing pulses on acidic soils

    Bungeet, Victoria, growers John and Peter Alexander have grown a variety of pulses since starting with lupins in the late 1970s. They participate in GRDC’s Southern Pulse Extension Dookie Pulse Check discussion group, which connects like-minded growers who are happy to share their experiences.

  • Irrigation and drainage investment help maximise HRZ yields
    Southern, 07 Sep 2021
    Irrigation and drainage investment help maximise HRZ yields

    Managing waterlogging has become one of the keys to combining grain growing with more-traditional vegetable production on the Cole family’s farm at Cressy, Tasmania. Draining wet paddocks allows for a more-flexible farming regime in northern Tasmania, where cereals can more than pay their way alongside crops such as potatoes and peas.

  • Hay enterprise underpins crop expansion
    Southern, 22 Jun 2021
    Hay enterprise underpins crop expansion

    A 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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