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Dry Sowing: Do We Wait For A Knockdown Or Go In With Pre-Emergents

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…
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The Lowdown On Vaccines

The Lowdown on Vaccines You know that a key part of ensuring your flock’s health is preventing diseases with vaccines. But do you know the difference between the 3-in-1 and 6-in-1 products, and what you should be using? We’ve summed up…
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The Free Choice System: Why Your Stock Know Best

The free choice system: why your stock know best. Your stock may know their needs better than you think. Below we look at what a free choice system is, why it works best, and how it improves your flock.   What is it? A…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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