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Southern, 28 Jan 2022
1870 John Deere: “It’s the third one in a row, I still don’t know of any better!”
A successful crop establishment of 600 tillers per square metre is where Gary Virgin would like to start his season off.
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Southern, 27 Jan 2022
Anything that starts well, does well at Berriwillock
John sees successful crop establishment as an incredibly important aspect to a cropping system as it has implications on the entire season.
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Southern, 26 Jan 2022
Multi-function amelioration concept revs into reality
South Australian grower Rob Pocock came up with the concept for a prototype 'plough and sow' machine, which has become a reality through GRDC-invested research led by Mallee Sustainable Farming in partnership with the University of South Australia and Adelaide-based machinery manufacturer John Shearer.
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Southern, 19 Jan 2022
Dunlop’s disc system allows for good moisture retention at sowing and fast sowing speeds
With a long-term goal of moisture conservation, the Dunlop brothers retain high cereal stubble loads using a stripper front on their header and run a Control Traffic System (CTF) system.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.