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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We’re in the middle of a busy disease and pest season, where it’s imperative to keep a close eye on crops to prevent any damage or losses. At the time of writing, here’s what our agronomists are seeing:
Insect Update
Pulses:
Pea…
Ascochyta Blight can be a dangerous disease for lentil crops. And this season, SARDI is warning that the varieties PBA Hurricane XT, PBA Hallmark XT and PBA Highland XT need to be monitored particularly closely for disease outbreaks. Their testing…
A lot of time, money and effort can be pumped into a crop during the growing season to try and attain maximum yields, only to be spoilt by a frost. However, there are things you can do to manage the…
Pea Growers beware – early forecasts point to a high to medium risk of Blackspot in seedling field pea crops sown in early to mid-May across most of South Australia in 2022.
When new crops are emerging and establishing, spores released…
