Altora Ag - Ballarat

Paddock checks today in the Skipton area. Things looking great after some well needed rain and a bit of sunshine. Pictured Amberley beans and 45y95 @AGF_Seeds @pioneerseedsau

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What a great day from @AGF_Seeds for their annual field day. We are lucky to have such a high quality site at our back door. Well done 🌾 🌱🌻

Valuable grower morning last week outlining Altora Ag beginnings to present day, NSW season update, grain marketing outlooks, finishing at trial site update covering nutrition, disease management and results of herbicide comparisons

Planet barley on Faba bean stubble. Massive difference in other paddocks of barley on cereal or canola stubble. Moisture retention playing a key factor not N.

This paddock of Lucerne is flying after its winter clean and application of custom fertiliser blend, now just add water 🌿🤞🏻 @IPFertilisers

Canola 45Y95 about to run up. Amazing how much biomass it was able to produce with some dry months. 209mm since spreading Metakill and the bait is still holding up well. @Imtrade @pioneerseedsau

Frosty start to our first Altora Trail Site walk for the year. Nutrition, Herbicides, Biostimulants and Slug Bait trials were covered. Great discussion to finish, thanks for all involved.

One out of our two Ballarat Altora trial sites. Clear day for some drone footage. After a handy 16mm last week some of our nutrition replications are showing up along with weeds in our Pre Em site. Great tool for us and our growers @Syngenta @Imtrade @SipcamAus @BASF @Bayer4Crops

Early April sown winter canola tapping into sub soil moisture. SOA spread, grass and broadleaf spray applied. Rye and Radish not happy. Bring on the rain!

Mateno Complete sprayed 18 days ago. Pulling down large volunteer canola and wild radish. Root pruning on rye showing up now. @Bayer4CropsAU @Bayer4Crops

Amberley Faba Beans are away. @AGF_Seeds @newedgemicrobes Acid-tolerant rhizobia applied this year to improve nodulation and propyzamide/Reflex to help with grass and BL. @SyngentaANZ Now for a drop of rain…

Sakura and Voraxor working well in a problem paddock of high broadleaf weeds. @Bayer4Crops @BASF

8th week of operation at Altora Ag Ballarat. Lots happening with sowing in full swing. Give us a call for any agronomy/cropping input requirements or pricing. Tim Cosgrave - Merchandise Manager - 0473 661 585 Fraser Mitilineos - Merchandise - 0458 114 345

Some action shots from our growers getting the job done. Excellent germination from recent rain means Double Knocking is in full swing.

Dry Sowing Winter Wheat up and away after the break last week. Tref with the Knockdown while keeping #mateno to apply EPE to pick up on Rye and Broadleaf weeds. @Bayer4CropsAU

Captain winter canola @AGF_Seeds sown before last weeks 40mm. Great option for early seeding wet blocks.

2024 Altora Ag Trial Site has been sown. Two different geographical sites replicated focusing on nutrition and herbicides.

Baiting underway on some early seeding Wheat. A very handy 40mm landed on the paddock