Our local Malinong community, thanks to Team Thomas & Ski for Life had a good dose of perspective last Friday. Mike & Ben, aka Legless and Blind spoke all things mental health, being tough & having hard conversations with your mates. It’s a tough season, but no 1 is alone in it.

It counts!!. I’m putting that down as 2 points. Lowest season on record, crops still alive, amazing their ability to hang on in the challenging season!

Driest year on record so you’d think disease should struggle - Powdery says “hold my beer and watch this”🤦🏻‍♂️

Shot up to hart field day yesterday, there’s blue ribbon country all the way through the lower north looking grim. Brilliantly presented trials but all looking for rain. Farmer attitude surprisingly good, acceptance of where the season is at seemed to be the general feeling.

Platinum Ag’s main trial day held at Malinong yesterday afternoon. Challenging season, was still plenty to see. Great turn out with 60 farmers and industry people attending. Local R&D, pub tested by farmers, proven by trials. 2025 ideas in the works already!

Dads chook chaser is the current favourite machine in the shed!

Any stripper fronts out there that will fit a 9060 new holland? Looking to hire one for some wheat.

2024: will be an interesting season to have in the rear view mirror. Challenging, lowest ever rainfall on record. Only about 120mm GSR. We have crops, impacted by frost, drought, and have been management challenge after challenge, they’re nothing special but we have something!

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Bit of fun to record this, it’s great to be able to shed a positive light on what we do, and hopefully help a few new agros into the industry, there’s plenty of room, and plenty of older greyer (or balder in my case) who are willing to help!

Well done to Andrew Thomas for being announced as a finalist in the GPSA farmer of the year award. Well deserved for his leadership in farming practices in the mallee. Well known for championing ag research, leading the way with farming practices or mentoring younger farmers.

Bride is shopping in Lincoln. So watching some nail biting cricket in JumpShip brewing and being patient! I can feel a husband of the year award coming on.

Sam Trengrove wins the GPSA innovation award, absolute guru and always working on issues we can’t see coming. Well deserved. Sam Trengove

Ramsey’s committed to bringing the Bednar to put in more on farm trials, and I’ll come along to dig holes and look at results! See it in action and then follow the sites through the year! Platinum Agro Jacob Bell is following the sites all season to look at its profitability!

Next week there’s demo strips being put into the drier area’s! Come along and look at the practical fit for amelioration within the Murray plains and southern mallee areas! Jacob Bell

Metsos weather stations: anyone have one? Any experience with wiring on them? I’ve got a random wire floating loose and can’t work out where it comes from!

Zena CL punched into lucerne for hay, just a quick dose of traces, fungicide and aphicide

GRDC comes to Malinong! NGN session this arvo was a belter, Ben White and Kassie the JD guru were the main event talking grain storage, grain losses and header optimisation. 30 odd farmers came together and got an update from GRDC and participated in an NGN session!

Ticked the Cairns to Cape ride off the bucket list a few weeks back. Off road on the might DRZ….. highly recommend it for anyone needing to get well out of phone range!

Proud as punch at how this one had come together. Absolutely belting site considering the year! Malinong, SA.