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Treating stored grain is essential, whether you’re storing seed for next season or waiting for the right price. Insect-damaged grain can be downgraded, reducing quality as well as potential profits. However, several measures can be taken to mitigate this risk….
Is crown rot devastating your durum yields? Finally, there’s a solution in the pipeline! Syngenta’s Victrato is a seed treatment that will be registered to control crown rot and manage root lesion nematodes in wheat and barley. It’s currently under evaluation…
Your checklist to be ready and safe this fire season. The current fire ban season is from the 1st of November 2023 to the 30th of April 2024 for both the Mid-North and Yorke Peninsula. Here’s a quick checklist of 8…
Annual lice treatment is an essential strategic practice for controlling lice across Australia in many situations. Usually, you’re pushed to do this around shearing time to achieve the highest level of control.  However, Flexolt is the new oral lice treatment that…
Two new strains of Rhizobia will be added to your inoculant choice for the 2024 season. They will be added into the groups E and F inoculants, meaning the two groups will again be split for next season. Group E will…
Tomahawk CL Wheat has been released for the 2024 growing season. An AGT variety, tested as RAC3261, Tomahawk will be a Clearfield Scepter type. Trials show it looks to be the highest-yielding Clearfield across SA and VIC, bridging the gaps between…
South Australia’s 2025 eID tag mandate and what it means for you. What’s changing and why? As of January 1, 2025, it will become mandatory for Aussie farmers to tag their sheep and goats with NLIS-accredited electronic identification tags (eID) before leaving…
It’s getting to that time of year, so here’s a little refresher for you about desiccation crop topping. Use A Registered Product And Rate: Ryegrass:If ryegrass is a problem in your paddock, spray topping is an excellent tool. It allows you to…
  Soaker Wheat – Longreach Soaker has been described as a ‘Scepter type’ wheat with the addition of an IMI tolerance gene that can protect the crop from any IMI residual activity. Soaker presents an option as a ‘Soaker crop’ following an…
BASF Invigor LR4540P   For next season BASF are replacing Invigor R4022P with their new Invigor LR4540P. And with yield improvements across all yield groups, it makes sense why. It will have TruFlex technology along with BASF’s new trait Liberty Link. The…