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Balancing Tillage And Nutrition In WA's Water Repellent Sands
Episode 104
Sandy soils, typical to parts of Western Australia and found in South Australia’s and Victoria’s mallee country, create considerable and costly grain…
6 years, 11 months ago
Roll Out the Snail Barrel
Episode 101
A new grain cleaning method is being trialled in WA to enable growers to further reduce the presence of snails in their harvested grain and oilseeds.…
7 years ago
Scratch the surface for answers to sub-soil contstraints
Episode 102
The GRDC’s nutrition decisions following a dry season project is looking at a variety of ways to fix multiple soil constraints – pH, sodicity and sal…
7 years ago
Non-wetting and compacting soils grower case study
Episode 99
Esperance-based grower Gavin Egan started using clay spreading, delving and deep ripping to ameliorate soil water repellence and compaction issues se…
7 years ago
Climate Guides 2019
Episode 100
At a glance you can now determine just how much your local climate has changed over the past 60 years. The Bureau of Meteorology has published climat…
7 years ago
Big or Small – profitability is the key
Episode 97
Not everyone can be in the Top 20 percent of growers. But YOU can. And the scale of your operation won’t put you into, or keep you out of, that exclu…
7 years ago
Locating and assessing on-farm lime sources
Episode 98
In Western Australia’s eastern wheatbelt the sand plain soils are prone to acidification. To neutralise the acidity grain growers apply coastal lime …
7 years ago
Minimising Canola & Cereal Harvest Losses
Episode 96
An astounding $90 million worth of canola is estimated to be lost from the back of harvesters every year in Western Australia. In this podcast Planfa…
7 years ago
Why soil borne nutrient give a better response in wheat than introduced fertiliser
Episode 94
Pulse growers consistently report a greater boost in cereal production following a pulse crop than they would normally get from manufactured nutrient…
7 years, 1 month ago
Your Lime Calculator
Episode 95
Decisions around lime applications to acid soils have suddenly become a lot easier with the availability of the iLime Calculator, a smartphone app th…
7 years, 1 month ago