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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 15 Dec 2020
How to minimise wind erosion after soil amelioration
Severe wind events in the Western Australian grainbelt in 2020, especially in May, demonstrated that wind erosion after summer/autumn soil amelioration is a serious problem. Both ameliorated and non-ameliorated paddocks blew, but community attention focused on recently ameliorated and exposed soil.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 09 Dec 2020
Improving crop establishment in non-wetting soil
Long-term fixes to non-wetting soils, such as inverting, mixing and claying by ploughing, spading, delving and clay spreading, are expensive and unlikely to be implemented across a grower's whole non-wetting area in one or even several seasons. Shorter-term and strategies can be used on some parts of the farm while growers simultaneously fix non-wetting issues using longer-term approaches on other areas of a property.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 01 Dec 2020
Knife-point benefits vary when alleviating compaction
Benefits from using knife-points to alleviate compaction will be small and will vary with soil type, conditions, machine set-up and depth of compaction. They will not de-compact or mix soil as effectively as dedicated implements.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 05 Sep 2020
Pros and cons of deep ripping on an angle
Deep ripping on an angle can improve machinery trafficability in many situations, as well as boosting crop emergence. But there is a price to pay in terms of machinery wear and tear.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 14 Aug 2020
‘Greenness’ indicates tolerance in wheat varieties
Tools that measure a crop’s ‘greenness’ could help breeding programs to select wheat varieties tolerant to the root lesion nematode, Pratylenchus thornei. Researchers from the University of Southern Queensland have been testing a Greenseeker® to measure the normalised difference vegetation index of wheat varieties that range in tolerance to P. thornei.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 23 Oct 2019
Measuring to make a change
Calculating grain losses and making machine adjustments could save thousands of dollars and help growers avoid leaving profits in the paddock.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 15 Oct 2019
Know your fire safety code
Industry bodies and fire authorities are encouraging growers to know the details of their voluntary harvest code of practice to ensure fire safety across South Australia and Victoria.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 24 Sep 2019
Load up on truck information
Truck ownership – load up on what you need to know.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 13 Sep 2019
Brokers provide options
Engaging an insurance broker is an important part of fire risk management.
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Precision Agriculture and Machinery, 11 Sep 2019
Investing in prevention
The safety of staff, family, neighbours and the local community is the overriding consideration of grain grower Ben Wundersitz as he prepares for harvest each year.