**Parkes canola field walk - 9 October**
Hope to see you next week to inspect the Canola NVT trial site with @HertelKathi and to discuss the latest @theGRDC canola establishment research results.
@NSW_AGRONOMY @CSIRO
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Colin McMaster
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Colin McMaster
@Master4Colin
R&D Agronomist with NSW DPI, conducting dry land cropping research within central NSW.
Beigetreten Aralık 2015
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Great day at Tottenham yesterday, and thanks @GRDCNorth for the opportunity to present.
For anybody interested, there’s also a new @theGRDC funded App developed by @CSIRO called ‘Summer weed tool’…worth checking out this summer.
GRDC North@GRDCNorth
Weeds are a red card for fallow management - @Master4Colin looks at the cost of uncontrolled weeds to system profit – a nitrogen & water story. #GRDCUpdates #Tottenham Paper: bit.ly/4fedVOf
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The team from GOA invite you along to the 2025 Central West @grdc NGN forums.
🤔Have your say on the issues that keep you awake at night that might help guide GRDC investments in YOUR area with YOUR levy $$$$.
🧐Hear the latest research from YOUR backyard with farmer-ready solutions to your production constraints.
@GRDCNorth @MaurieStreet @bennyob #NGNforums
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Col has gone above and beyond 👌
Colin McMaster@Master4Colin
@theGRDC Canola establishment field walk tomorrow at Canowindra. Time: 10am Location: Woodlands (refer to flyer) Rainout shelters have provided some great insights into dry sowing and the critical moist% required for establishment. Hope to see you there. @CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY
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@DaveFinlayTrang @theGRDC @AgroJAK Pleasure Dave - thanks for sharing with the group what you’re up to. Love your ‘out of the box’ thinking and will be following your work with great interest.
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Big thanks to the growers and advisors for supporting yesterdays @theGRDC canola establishment field walk at Canowindra.
Great discussion and thanks to @AgroJAK and @DaveFinlayTrang for your contribution👍. Hope it helped
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@davelangfield75 @AgroJAK No probs at all Dave 👍. Will keep you posted on the results.
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@Master4Colin @AgroJAK Sorry Col couldn’t make it this time
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@theGRDC Canola establishment field walk tomorrow at Canowindra.
Time: 10am
Location: Woodlands (refer to flyer)
Rainout shelters have provided some great insights into dry sowing and the critical moist% required for establishment. Hope to see you there. @CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY
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Be great to see you @theGRDC canola establishment field walk at Canowindra on Friday 13 June.
Strong focus on the critical soil moisture requirements for est % & the various implications of stubble, seed depth, soil strength & seedbed moist dry-down. @CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY
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@grassrootsag @AgroJAK @MckinleyMatt @theGRDC @NSW_AGRONOMY @MathewDunn19 @tony_swan64 @Farm_Link @JessicaZieltjes Just finished setting up irrigation yesterday at Condo. Will start applying various water treatments on Monday. Will keep you posted 👍
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@AgroJAK @MckinleyMatt @theGRDC @NSW_AGRONOMY @MathewDunn19 @tony_swan64 @Farm_Link @JessicaZieltjes Hot topic at present, growers with zero-till gear & stored soil moisture, pushing deeper with big hybrid seed. Keen to follow @Master4Colin & his canola work in a drier start to the season.
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Yr 2 of the Diverse Farms project has kicked off at Rannock. Comparing FbCW against FbCWB rotations.
@MckinleyMatt sowing canola into faba stubbles despite only 57mm YTD rainfall. Surface dry but getting canola onto stored moisture from harvest.
#diversefarms @theGRDC
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Great morning by the Grassroots Agronomy team and a massive thanks for the opportunity to present @theGRDC canola establishment results 👍. @CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY
Grassroots Agronomy@grassrootsag
Top session in Marrar for our 2025 grassrootsag preseason. Lee Hudek @newedgemicrobes with a preso + live demo on inoc. pulses. @Master4Colin best bet canola estab. & Claudia Mitchell (thecapacityco) on effective farm teams. Big thanks to @JessicaZieltjes for organising.
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@lawbal44 @theGRDC @CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY @AndrewF00370433 @AgroJAK @agrobaz @MaurieStreet @brill_ag @GRDCNorth Hi Lawrence - trial sites are at Canowindra and Condo. The Canowindra site is up mulligans rd at Woodlands (thanks @RobGindurra). Will keep you posted
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@Master4Colin @theGRDC @CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY @AndrewF00370433 @AgroJAK @agrobaz @MaurieStreet @brill_ag @GRDCNorth Where are the trials Col?
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Using shelters & irrigation to adjust seedbed moisture & to ensure dry conditions post sowing.
Questions are: what’s the critical moist % to establish canola, & can seed be placed deeper if surface too dry? Really looking foward to these @theGRDC results👍@CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY
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Cracking’ morning for a BBQ brekkie at Greenethorpe, see you there @Master4Colin @AgroJAK @grassrootsag @wrightim1 @GRDCNorth @NSW_AGRONOMY
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A very handy resource thanks Charleton @GRDCNorth
Charleton Glenn@charleton_glenn
Tips for identifying frost damage - @GRDCNorth Damage is usually most evident 7−10 days after a suspected frost event. Here's a cheat sheet to help ID symptoms. 🌾Cereal ID - bit.ly/4d9hXoq 🌼 Canola & Pulse ID - bit.ly/4d5KwmN
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Is MAP fertiliser toxicity worse on wet or dry soils from a canola establishment perspective? Come along to tomorrow’s field day at Condobolin as we discuss the latest @theGRDC research into all things canola establishment. How to see you there. @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY @CSIRO
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📅SAVE THE DATE📅
The central west @theGRDC NGN Forums are coming to a town near you SOON
-Condobolin: 27th Aug (am)
-Tottenham: 27th Aug (pm)
-Coonamble: 28th Aug (am)
-Dubbo: 29th Aug (am)
-Manildra: 29th Aug (pm)
For more info: grainorana.com.au
@GRDCNorth
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@lawbal44 @davelangfield75 @PhilCranney Ha…will make sure the bbq location makes the feedback form Lawrence 😂! Thanks heaps Phil and local land services for providing lunch👍.
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@davelangfield75 Agree David, Michael Nash was great on the pest side. Liked the way he explained the way our cropping systems contribute to slugs, millipedes etc & offered cultural as well as chemical control options. Although next time @Master4Colin get @PhilCranney to set BBQ up downwind 🤤
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Great disc at Canola Establishment F-Day at Canowindra this morning - plenty of chat about disc vs tyne, estab pests like slugs, millipedes, slatters etc, fertiliser affect on canola seed, press wheels and closing wheel pressure - great work by Col McMaster NSW DPI $ by the GRDC
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Massive thanks to all the growers and advisors for supporting yesterday’s @theGRDC canola establishment field walk. Great discussion & particular thanks to speakers @merindie1, @bennyob , @stufarm , @RobGindurra and Oliver Wythes. Great team effort @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY @CSIRO
David Langfield 🌾🐑🚜☘️@davelangfield75
Great disc at Canola Establishment F-Day at Canowindra this morning - plenty of chat about disc vs tyne, estab pests like slugs, millipedes, slatters etc, fertiliser affect on canola seed, press wheels and closing wheel pressure - great work by Col McMaster NSW DPI $ by the GRDC
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@brill_ag @theGRDC @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY @AgroJAK FYI - here’s some seed vigour tests that indicate that <1.6mm seed size was characterised with high levels of seed abnormalities and poor seed coat integrity (via EC test). Just like the field trials, most of the benefits came via selecting >1.8mm seed size
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@brill_ag @theGRDC @NSWDPI_AGRONOMY @AgroJAK Sorry Rohan - late to the discussion. We observed similar findings with <1.6mm seed performing poorly at any depth. Interestingly, we found the >1.8mm seed size was relatively robust across both shallow and deep seeding depths…but agree the bigger the better.
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2-2.2 mm seed sown 6 cm deep (L) versus <1.6 mm seed ~3.5 cm deep (R) @theGRDC Canola Establishment project, sodic soil at Ganmain. 3.5 cm depth has been no man’s land, not deep enough to hit moisture and too deep to for later rains. Splitting depths at sowing could be an option?
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