☘️ Your crop can out-compete weeds, especially if you give it a leg up to get the crop advantage ❗ Give your crop a 🦵 leg up by: - Using precision seeding - Implementing well planned crop rotations - Good quality seed - Sticking to a smart herbicide plan 🎥 Grassroots Agronomy

Variation in Colwell P, perhaps even a greater magnitude than pH

Testing with farmer brews on ryegrass this summer to better understand herbicide performance on stressed ryegrass. Sprayed on hot summer day. Example of stress on Biffo 3.75L + Terrad'or 40g @ 1 week after spraying. More results soon. GRDC South WeedSmart

Barley in pH 5.0 soil with 4 t/ha of calcium oxide on the right - applied less than a month ago - always emerges half a day earlier. I am forever being told that lime takes 6 months to work; the answer is it can show results in weeks, or it can take years if there is a subsoil

This Bastard of a drought is really starting to bite hard now, Whether you are dry sowing crops, Hand Feeding Stock or Carting Water Keep The head up, Chat to ya mates, Shoot off more text messages than usual, Get on here for a yarn or a bit of banter, Just don’t face this alone!

Paddock checks today in the Skipton area. Things looking great after some well needed rain and a bit of sunshine. Pictured Amberley beans and 45y95 AGF Seeds Pioneer Seeds - Australia

Crop check in Boort this week — the difference a few extra sunshine hours & degrees make at this time of year to Pioneer Seeds - Australia 421C, Pacific Seeds Matador & Thunder lentils.

Scald infections have been found by the team in some susceptible barley varieties at our Gnarwarre (SW Vic) and Bordertown (SA) sites. Be on the lookout if you've had some wet conditions!

An awesome SA #NRI agronomy tour done and dusted. Big thanks to everyone who made it possible.

There has been some recent discussion of clethodim degradation in 'old' formulations that have been in storage for a few years. Below is another data set to support this observation from one of our 2025 field trials (phalaris in chickpea)

The best nodulation I’ve seen this season on some Faba beans New Edge Microbials Altora Ag - Ballarat

Feedbase Focus is underway and what a crowd! A little bit windy but blue skies and sunshine, I can hear the Pastures growing.

Axial Extra smoking the wild oats and checking ryegrass in some InterGrain Neo CL barley

Wheat GS30-31 fungicide/broadleaf sprays are wrapping up for year. Good to see Priority & MCPA 570 LVE 5 days post App looking after volunteer canola and lucerne in crop ADAMA Australia

Paddock check in Boort: Neo barley heading out strong and even. Promising stand—fingers crossed for solid yields ahead. 🌾

Another great field day by FAR Australia in Inverleigh. An incredible source of information for the HRZ

Just a short note to thank all who attended our wind swept field day in southern VIC last Friday! Moving to our southern NSW higher altitude research site at Wallenbeen this Friday. See you there! GRDC FAR Australia for website details.