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The broadacre fungicide market is filled with choices – single actives, combinations, and varying formulations. Here’s our list of fungicides options available for 2023. Straight Actives:  Azoxystrobin aka Accolade/Mirador (Formulations 250g/L, 625g/L, 800g/kg)  Crops: Pulses, Canola & Cereals.  A group 11 fungicide, straight azoxy products…
Chasing disease in wheat and barley? Adama’s Radial is an option to tuck into your arsenal. What is it? Radial is a broad-spectrum foliar fungicide that controls various diseases in wheat and barley crops. It’s a unique mix of 75g/L of Epoxiconazole…
Intergrain has released a new barley for the 2024 season that has many in the industry very excited. Tested as IGB22101T, they say Neo is the complete package. It boasts exceptionally high yield, outstanding disease resistance and extremely promising quality…
Animal welfare just got easier. Troy has made Butec OTM – the long-lasting pain relief product for sheep and cattle – available in our stores. It’s a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) used to alleviate pain from husbandry procedures in sheep and…
Over the years, agriculture has progressively moved to more conservative farming practices, such as no-till, less burning and less tillage. While this has improved soil structure and erosion, it has also created ideal habitats for snails and slugs. We have…
Plant SAP analysis is fast becoming a powerful management tool for monitoring crop nutrition and maximising yields. What is it, and how is it different?  Plant SAP testing can provide more dynamic crop data than what can be gained through soil testing…
A flexible alternative for powerful control of challenging weeds.  Galaxy from Nufarm is a new post-emergent herbicide option for broadleaf weeds in cereal crops. Its active is straight Pyrasulfotole – (which you might recognise as one part of Bayer’s Velocity and…
GRDC have released their mouse monitoring update, which lists our areas as low to moderate. However, keep in mind numbers were still breeding up in April. Click here to check it out. At this stage, although numbers are low to moderate,…
SARDI Crop Watch has released its Blackspot disease forecast with an indication towards a ‘highly variable risk’ of blackspot disease of seedling field peas that are sown from late in April through to early May across SA. Some of our…
Annual ryegrass is one of the biggest frustrations for our winter cereal crops, wouldn’t you agree? If you’re like most farmers, a big part of your ryegrass herbicide tool kit has been Sakura. And in the fight against resistance, we…