Why You Should Use Stock Blocks This Summer
Why you should use stock blocks this summer. Why even use them? You don’t need to be reminded that the last couple of years have not been kind to us with rainfall. And you know that poor harvests mean poor stubbles. So it should follow that because stubbles are our primary summer feed source, it’s […]
Fertiliser: What Are You Taking & Replacing
Everything we grow requires nutrients from the soil. It’s important to understand what our crops are removing from the soil so that we know what we should be replenishing our soils with for the following season. Take a look at the table below. It gives you a guide to how much nutrients each crop would […]
One Bait To Rule Them All? A Look At Transcend
Can one spread of bait wipe out all your early pests? Early last year you may have heard us talking about a new bait coming to the market called Transcend by Imtrade. Transcend is a snail bait which contains 50g/kg of Metaldehyde, which is the common active in most snail baits. However, the new Transcend […]
A Quick Look At New Precision Cropping App: Decipher
A quick look at new precision crop technology: Decipher Proudly owned and backed by Wesfarmers, DecipherAg is leading the way in terms of precision agriculture. Used by farmers and agronomists all over the globe, Decipher uses biomass data collected in season, in conjunction with yield mapping data, and soil test results, to assist in paddock […]
Be A Better Breeder: 4 Tips For Pre-Joining Ewes
Be a better breeder: Here are our four tips when for pre-joining ewes. Here are four things you need to know for a successful joining and to give you healthy and productive sheep. As we like to stress – treat your flock like your crop. 1 – Maiden ewes need to be a minimum of […]
Are You Forecast Savy?
Ok. We admit we’ve been doing it wrong. But thanks to a recent article by the ABC we’re now enlightened. Rainfall forecasts are often misunderstood (and if you’re anything like us easy to criticise when wrong). So, since we’ve been praying for rain all season, it might be best if we properly understood what the […]
New IMI-FABA Bean & IMI-Lentil
We’re excited. Next season we are likely to see the release of a couple new legume varieties, including an imi-tolerant Faba Bean and another addition to the imi-tolerant (XT) Lentil family. Like us, we expect most growers will be keen on getting their hands on some. But be warned, both these varieties will be under […]
Rhizoctonia Root Rot: What Is It & 5 Tips On How To Deal With It
Rhizoctonia Root Rot: What is it and 5 Tips on How to deal with it. It has been another excellent season for Rhizoctonia patches to show up and hold up our crops. If you haven’t seen this before, it shows up as patches in the paddock where plants are visibly struggling and far behind the […]
8 Mid-Late Season Pests: What To Keep An Eye On
As the season gets later, we come into contact with the next wave of insects that have the potential of damaging our crop yields. It is important to know what pests and beneficial insects numbers are in your paddocks so you can make the right decisions with IPM strategies and pest thresholds. Below is an […]
Disease Update: August 2019
Disease Update August 2019 So far this year, we have seen crop diseases popping up all over the place. The recent misty rain we had over a prolonged period created perfect conditions for most diseases to take hold and spread throughout crops. Below is a list of what you should be looking out for in […]
