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  • Anything that starts well, does well at Berriwillock
    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.

  • Multi-function amelioration concept revs into reality
    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.

  • Dunlop’s disc system allows for good moisture retention at sowing and fast sowing speeds
    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.

  • 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.

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