Low rainfall farmer/consultant still learning
Port Germein, South Australia
Joined August 2016
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On the Camino in Galicia in northern Spain. Thinking about GRDC RiskWise (not!). Good outcomes are a combination of luck and good decision making. Always nice to be the farm at the end of the rainbow….@GRDCSouth @GRDCWest @UnfsNorth
Great interview by Oli from Humans of Agriculture with a young farmer (that I know quite well!) with some excellent take home messages of the challenges of learning the difficult craft of farming
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Excellent podcast on changing the emphasis of summer weed control more to residuals. Well done Beth Mark and UNFS
The latest UNFS podcast covers managing summer weeds like fleabane & feathertop Rhodes grass. Beth Humphris (Elders) & Mark Congreve (ICAN Rural) share insights on control methods, herbicide use, & crop rotation. This is part of the Summer Weeds Project.
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@MudgeBarry gives some insight into upcoming RiskWi$e event in the Upper North putting 2024 into perspective. 10th February @ Orroroo please see our previous post with flyer and details.
Hail damage on our Mambray Creek property last night. Our estimate is 50-100% on wheat, 100% on canola. Not widespread but would have been active while it was happening
Great day with the Nelshaby Ag Bureau and Upper North FS sharing collective local experiences of crap crops (and some seeps!) in a season which for many ranks statistically as their worst on record. Best mental health exercise. All in this together
Bureau of Met are now delivering grains specific climate outlooks on a monthly basis-current example for SA/Vic/Tas can be accessed at m.youtube.com/watch?v=TqWnLZ…
Interested in users thoughts on the information contained in the video
3%A game changer
60%Could be handy
17%Get info elsewhere
20%No-don’t use forecasts
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Shown off some #Mallee trials to our visitors from WA w/@SADroughtHub @GGA_WA and @MudgeBarry Moroccan friends. 🙏 all who contributed to make a successful trip for our visitors they really appreciated seeing different country. Hopefully we can come your way in the near future! – at Loxton, South Australia
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Dont miss out, this Friday night at Orroroo! Tickets available here: bit.ly/WLB-Orroroo
Some great feedback so far:
"A very casual, interactive night that didn't feel like a lecture or help session. It was informative and easy to engage and take away from."
This should be the last re-fuel for the 2023 season. Don’t ever recall finishing seeding in April before. Has TOS risk moved from “too late” to the front end of the season?
Interesting discussions at the WA GRDC FBU around many subjects including techniques to measure risk.The new 5 year GRDC risk initiative will explore this further.Great enthusiasm amongst local farmers following excellent last 2 years @GRDCSouth @GRDCWest
Early (Apr 14th) sown lentils at Mambray Creek Nth SA.Outside Goyders Line.Too early?Too much biomass?Recent local trials have shown significant benefits from very early lentil establishment in these environments. These might test the theory
4. Easy way forward. Once the index is set up it is 5 minutes work to implement. Simple and effective
3. The value proposition of the change.This process gives us an effective review system. If the dry seeding doesn’t work which of the critical factors did we get wrong?
2. Why do we adopt anything. 3 things.Dissatisfaction with current position Decision making is difficult.We found this clarified and focused our thoughts
1. A follow up on earlier tweet about a decision support index for dry seeding which has created a bit of interest (with emphasis on support (not replacing intuition)). Why would we adopt such a process?
For what it is worth I have been experimenting with a simple index over past two years to support intuition with dry seeding decisions. Idea is to update with new experiences. I’ve certainly found it useful to straighten up the thoughts
With input and other costs rising,interesting to compare our (low rainfall northern SA) wheat COP with 2 yrs ago. Up say $90/tonne. Ok if pricing holds at current levels
