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Better Barley
Episode 132
Farmers and their advisers, naturally, are mostly focused on growing better grain – finding those incremental improvements that can often mean so muc…
6 years, 8 months ago
Faba Beans | A 40 Year Favourite For WA Grower Neil Wandel
Episode 133
Esperance Port Zone grain grower Neil Wandel has been including faba beans in his crop rotations for 4 decades. While they might not be the highest v…
6 years, 8 months ago
Resilience | The art of being a farmer (Part 2)
Episode 130
The complexity of agriculture would lead some people to label farming as a form of art. Working with the climate, the landscape, the machinery, the c…
6 years, 8 months ago
Resilience | The art of being a farmer (Part 1)
Episode 131
The complexity of agriculture would lead some people to label farming as a form of art. Working with the climate, the landscape, the machinery, the c…
6 years, 8 months ago
Sowing Spring (and Winter) wheats early on the Riverine Plains
Episode 128
Trials undertaken on the Riverine Plains testing early sowing times for both spring and winter wheat varieties have produced some interesting results…
6 years, 8 months ago
Redlegged Earth Mite – a pesticide resistance evolution
Episode 129
A key research question that has an appreciable bearing on our future management of this pest relates to the way in which resistance has evolved in t…
6 years, 8 months ago
Interpreting Weather Forecasts
Episode 127
At a meeting of the Esperance Port Zone, Regional Cropping Solutions Network, mid way through 2019 a decision was made to help grain growers better u…
6 years, 8 months ago
Check your pulses
Episode 125
GRDC’s Pulsecheck program aims to introduce growers who are new to growing pulses to all the challenges and rewards to be had by diversifying into th…
6 years, 9 months ago
Re-inventing oats
Episode 126
Oats has a wonderful reputation amongst consumers, especially those in Asia, as a very healthy product. So it makes sense to find more ways to presen…
6 years, 9 months ago
Climbing Field Peas
Episode 123
Field Peas can be problematic for WA growers to grow, but a simple management practice could change that. Dr Sarita Bennet from the Centre for Crop a…
6 years, 9 months ago