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  • Tag-team batch and fill improves spray efficiency
    Western, 27 Nov 2022
    Tag-team batch and fill improves spray efficiency

    Efficiency gains in the mixing and batching process are one of the most effective ways to maximise hectares sprayed in broadacre agriculture and growers are finding innovative ways to achieve this. Tom and his father Phil have shared their learning experiences in the new GRDC Mixing and Batching for Agricultural Chemical Application Guidebook.

  • Benefits abound for long-season wheat
    Western, 15 Sep 2022
    Benefits abound for long-season wheat

    Long season wheats and, in particular, feed wheats are proving advantageous for high-rainfall mixed grower Ben Webb, based near Muradup, WA. Ben says they are more than dual-purpose with income from graze and grain but fill a management need to mitigate frost.

  • Peers and advisers guide novel pasture pursuit
    Western, 13 Jul 2022
    Peers and advisers guide novel pasture pursuit

    Research, support and new species developed from the five-year operations of the Dryland Legume Pasture Systems project have been credited for the production improvements in a low to medium rainfall mixed farm in Western Australia. Anna-Lisa Newman and husband Craig took on an ambitious plan to renovate pastures in their expanding mixed farming business and were guided by peers and advisers in the successful adoption of novel legume species and new farming practices.

  • Summer crops’ potential to lift system sustainability
    Western, 30 May 2022
    Summer crops’ potential to lift system sustainability

    With rainfall events becoming more intense and waterlogging more prevalent in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia, summer sowing options are being revisited. Jolene and Peter Daniel see many benefits of summer cropping as they also increase plant diversity and production system sustainability. They have been hosting a demonstration site overseen by Stirlings to Coast Farmers investigating the tactical role and economics of summer crops.

  • Mineral mulch – a new moisture-saving frontier
    Western, 04 Apr 2022
    Mineral mulch – a new moisture-saving frontier

    A flood in 2017 that saw sand deposited across Peter Daw’s cropping country at Ravensthorpe turned into a learning experience with longer-term benefits. Peter spread that sand more evenly and the crops yielded much better than average, he has now extended his mineral mulching to gravels with similar gains in yield.

  • Exhaustive endeavour to relieve soils headache
    Western, 26 Feb 2022
    Exhaustive endeavour to relieve soils headache

    An ambitious soil profile re-engineering project is underway on Mark Pearce’s Tarin Rock property in the Western Australian wheatbelt to see what theoretical upper limit to crop production can be achieved with increasing levels of soil amelioration.

  • Trevor’s success with non-wetters
    Western, 01 Feb 2022
    Trevor’s success with non-wetters

    For Trevor, even though 100 per cent establishment is the aim, he’s happy with 70–80 per cent as long as minimum plant numbers are met for optimal yield.

  • Multiple benefits arise from cropping diversity
    Western, 17 Nov 2021
    Multiple benefits arise from cropping diversity

    A diverse crop portfolio matched with new ideas and skills gives the Kelly family business the agility to deal with changing climates and markets.

  • Tackling clay with care after years of experience
    Western, 08 Oct 2021
    Tackling clay with care after years of experience

    Peter Luberda shares his knowledge of clay spreading gained over many years.

  • Years of spreading clay provide valuable lessons
    Western, 05 Oct 2021
    Years of spreading clay provide valuable lessons

    Years of patient and thoughtful clay spreading by Peter Luberda on a property near Esperance has resulted in persisting productivity increases. Peter shares how taking a whole farm approach with a long-term view is paying dividends.

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