Nothing is more disappointing than checking the mob and seeing lost newborn lambs. Not only is it a shame to see the loss of life, but it’s a direct hit to your potential profits.
Research indicates the average loss of lambs…
A barley variety with high yields and an excellent disease package? Yep, Combat can.
New Combat barley is being marketed as an alternative to Rosalind, with its yields in the 2022 National Variety Trials (NVT) coming in above the benchmark variety…
The Corteva and Pioneer canola research teams in Australia have been working for more than a decade, and finally, in February, we saw a global announcement by Corteva Agriscience that we would see the commercial launch of Optimum GLY trait…
Even if you think it shouldn’t be too much of a worry, it’s worth checking your plant back periods. As you’d know, keeping an eye on herbicides when controlling weeds late in the season and over summer is essential, as…
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…
With harvest finished, your sheep will be eyeing off those fresh stubble paddocks with hungry eyes. As has always been the case, stubble paddocks can provide a good food source for livestock over summer. But can you push it too…
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…
