Technical Services Lead with Syngenta. Esperance WA. Views expressed are my own. B Sc (Agric) UWA
Myrup, WA
Joined May 2012
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As harvest begins, look out for weeds that have survived control measures. Drop a pin and collect seeds for @resistance_test. WA growers can send suspected resistant samples to #Herbicide resistance lab at UWA #WeedManagement #Harvest
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Growers & consultants - want to host a native budworm trap this year? DPIRD field researchers begin weekly pheromone trapping for native budworm (Helicoverpa punctigera) in June & are seeking volunteers to host traps from July/Aug to October.
#PestFactsWA dpird.wa.gov.au/siteassets/d…
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@DPIRDbroadacre 2025 rainfall and decile map for the South West Land Division. Pemberton 1436 mm for the year, DPIRD Goodlands 202 mm, 48 mm less than the Bureau station. #climate
Looking forward to paddock scale yield comparisons coming in this harvest for Victrato to assess ROI in managing crown rot infection
Despite a bitterly cold & wet day, it’s great when every link in the chain comes together to solve problems - Global R&D, local agronomists and farmers, tackling the challenge of powdery mildew. Many thanks to host grower @nig_michael for the impromptu creature comfort
2025 season on the south east coast of WA very conducive to powdery mildew. Calibre wheat still a long way from grain fill with solid infection. Good season to assess new fungicide options for growers to manage PM infection
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CropLife is disappointed to see @ABCRural abandon its own long-standing journalistic principles of integrity, responsibility and accuracy with recent online reporting of agricultural chemical regulation in promotion of an upcoming episode of Landline.
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Not much love in the room for Minister Watt this morning 🤬 Just had a number of Ag industry reps walk out in support of our WA sheep producers. 🙏🙏#keepthesheep.
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This is the ALP improving animal welfare. Killing off markets for sheep meaning they’re shot on farm instead of used as food.
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Labor have shamelessly announced they will shutdown the live sheep industry by 1 May 2028. A future Coalition Government will back our farmers and reverse this disgraceful decision.
Appalling move by the labour government, no true desire to help feed the world or interest in global animal welfare
Well done to @MurrayWatt @JedGoodfellow @RSPCA who will have successfully set back animal welfare worldwide with the decision today.
Here’s one for you @Robghia3518 … pursuit rims too for quick transit between trial sites… would’ve been ‘trial safe’ about 40 years ago
Ben Parkin retweeted
NEW: information & management guide for pasture legumes. Covering new annual legume pasture species (second gen hardseeded legumes) bred & selected for southern Australia alongside high quality strains of rhizobia.
👉 bit.ly/48kcjhC
@MurdochUni @CSIRO @nswdpi
90’s model JD tractors continue to appreciate in the US (these ones very low hours) - crazy money… only in the US ?!
Here's video of JD 4455 and 4960 selling for 2 new record high auction prices today on the Grayson Farms retirement sale in Winchester, KY - Wow: machinerypete.com/media_post…
Nice clear day to be in the air, heading east for work, crossing over the SA and VIC border… “looking over the fence”…
UCI blackleg on pods in a unsprayed section of commercial crop of canola on canola. Rest of paddock looks much better having had fungicide spray of Miravis Star at 5% flower
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@DPIRDbroadacre minimum temp 1 -16 July. Lake King -4.3C. Yuna North 11 nights and Bonnie Rock 10 nights under 2C, which is more than the average for July, and its only half way through the month. See @DPIRDWA Extreme weather events tool for more agric.wa.gov.au/climate-weat… #climate
