Lentil Growers Get Excited! There are 4 New Imi-Lentil Varieties on the horizon. Here’s a summary below:
GIA Thunder (GIA2002L) IMI Lentil
GIA Thunder lentils are an imi-tolerant, high-yielding, and broadly adapted premium small round red lentils planned for commercial release later…
We’re excited! Intergrain has recently released their new Brumby Wheat.
Tested as IGW6683, Brumby is a high-yielding APW wheat with a very attractive disease resistance profile. It is mid-maturing between Scepter and Rockstar and will be broadly adopted and well-suited to…
Once again, it’s autumn, and we’re sitting with tractors ready, looking to the skies for something to fall down. So, once again, we are posed with the age-old question: Do we delay seeding to get a knockdown spray in, or…
S&W Seed Company Kraken Forage Barley is a new early maturing, 2 row, white seeded and awnless barley.
Kraken excels in late sown situations where early vigour and rapid winter growth are vital to fill winter feed deficits.
Kraken is around nine…
Greener pastures are here! Recently eight new sub clover varieties have been released from Seed Force, and we’re excited to take a look. The new varieties cover all three sub-species of clover and will cater to different soil types and…
The new release of two new IMI Field Peas
It’s official. Grains Innovation Australia, along with AG Schilling & Co Seeds at Kadina, have been working on two new imi tolerant field peas, which have recently been released.
The varieties are GIA…
Dry Sowing: Do we wait for a knockdown or go in with pre-emergents?
Each year Autumn rain seems harder to get, and each year there seem to be fewer weeds germinating for a good knockdown at seeding time, which leaves us…
A recent GRDC funded study on dry sowing pulses into acidic soils has shown that nodulation is greatly improved when the inoculation rate is doubled. The study by SARDI has also shown that the increased rate provides better nodulation in…
After all the headaches from the last two years seed shortages, Pioneer Seeds are making a change to how they allocate canola orders.
If you’ve sown canola in the past, you might know Pioneer Seeds hold the Clearfield varieties 43Y92, 44Y90,…