Don’t Let Herbicide Plant Backs Ruin Your Crop Choice.
Even if you think it shouldn’t be too much of a worry, it’s worth checking your plant back periods. As you’d know, keeping an eye on herbicides when controlling weeds late in the season and over summer is essential, as residues can cause crop damage and impact your cropping choices. Of course, different factors will […]
Should You Inoculate Your Legumes? Finally, A Test To Find Out!
You ever wondered whether it’s worth inoculating your legumes? Or what your soil rhizobia levels might have been? Inoculating legumes plays a vital role in fixing nitrogen, but up until now, we’ve been only using educated guesswork to determine if it was necessary for certain paddocks. Now, there’s a new way to find out if […]
Seed Treatment Options For 2023
You’ve finally finished harvest and are back from holidays. What to do now? Well, if you haven’t already, it might be time to decide what varieties you’ll be growing next year and what seed dressings you’ll need for them. Like everything else, the seed dressing market has become complex, and deciding whether to stick with […]
5 Ways Soil Testing Can Benefit Your Paddock (And Your Pockets).
Are the nutrients in your soil balanced and bioavailable? Could you be wasting money on over-fertilising some of your paddocks? Perhaps your one underperforming paddock just needs a dose of lime? There’s one way to answer all of these: Do a soil test. Soil testing is the easiest way to ensure you’re doing the right […]
How To Get The Most Out Of Your Stubbles And Your Sheep.
With harvest finished, your sheep will be eyeing off those fresh stubble paddocks with hungry eyes. As has always been the case, stubble paddocks can provide a good food source for livestock over summer. But can you push it too far, and when do you know you’ve reached the end of a paddocks potential? […]
An Update On Group 14’s (G) And When To Use Them
There are Hammers, Nails, Sledges, Sharpens and many more, but where and when will these Group 14 (G) spike herbicides be best used? Taking opportunities to mix and rotate Group 14 herbicides with existing products can enable an effective knockdown spike and allow the utilisation of previously lost chemistry. Striker/Goal (Oxyfluorfen) –The first of the […]
Summer Weed Control: The Tough Weeds (Milk Thistle, Prickly Lettuce, Wireweed & Fleabane)
One of the downsides to a lovely wet spring and wet harvest is it inevitably leads to some early summer spraying. Unfortunately, by the time the headers stop and the grain is out of the paddock, the summer weeds will already have some size and hardiness behind them. We will also be smack in the […]
2022 Disease And Fungicide Review
If there were ever a year to prove the protective power of fungicides, 2022 would be it. A long Spring with above rainfall made for the perfect disease storm for all crop varieties and put fungicides to the test. Below we go over the major crops in our areas and how our main fungicides performed […]
The Lowdown On The Falling Numbers Test.
Rain, rain, go away. Come again next Anzac Day….. Well, rain is still falling across most of the growing regions in SA as crops mature and we begin the 2022 harvest. And unfortunately, when mature cereal crops receive enough rain before harvest, sprouting becomes a severe threat to grain quality. Germination of grains increases the […]
7 Reasons Why Super Sweet Sudan Is The Crop To Graze This Summer.
If you’re looking to fatten your flock on a bit of extra feed this summer, then Super Sweet Sudan is a great option to plant now. And with plenty of soil moisture available, this summer will be a great time to get into it. Here are seven reasons why you should consider Super Sweet Sudan: […]
