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Calcareous Soils Investment Welcomed
Episode 212
The Kuhlmann family has been farming on the western side of South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula for more than a hundred years. Peter Kuhlmann is the lat…
5 years, 9 months ago
Calcareous Soils Initiative
Episode 213
Calcareous soils are very common in the southern grain-growing region and cover 60% of the region’s cropping country. These soils are high in calcium…
5 years, 9 months ago
Retaining stubble in a high rainfall environment
Episode 211
For grower James Heggaton who farms around Kojunup in Western Australia, stubble is a crucial part of his farming system but one that must be activel…
5 years, 10 months ago
Conserving stubble conserves moisture
Episode 210
Stubble retention is practiced by farmers across the western cropping region for a variety of reasons. A special series of GRDC/West Australian No Ti…
5 years, 10 months ago
New pasture legumes overcome old barriers
Episode 209
For the past three years, researchers in Western Australia have been trialling innovative new pasture legume species suited to low to medium rainfall…
5 years, 10 months ago
How to test for dispersive soil
Episode 208
Now is the time of year to test your paddock for dispersive soil. Many soils in south-eastern Australia have naturally dispersive topsoils that are p…
5 years, 10 months ago
Fitting stubble into your system pays
Episode 207
The extraordinarily high winds experienced by growers around Geraldton in May 2020 emphasised the importance of retaining stubble as a means of prote…
5 years, 10 months ago
Rethinking fertiliser toxicity
Episode 205
When it comes calculating fertiliser toxicity risk in the paddock, the tools and resources available to growers haven’t really changed over the past …
5 years, 11 months ago
Farming in the digital age
Episode 206
Agricultural technology has a long way to go. That was the message mixed enterprise farmer and Nuffield scholar Andrew Slade delivered to those atten…
5 years, 11 months ago
The weeds are evolving – annual ryegrass and wild radish
Episode 203
Through the careful analysis of more than 18 years of paddock data, we now know that cropping weeds constantly evolve to evade all forms of weed cont…
5 years, 11 months ago