Jon Midwood

Southern Farming Systems Agrifocus 2024 a great success! Good to see so many farmers and advisors taking the time to see what’s new in cropping 🌾

Australian Minister for Ag @JulieCollinsMP & GRDC managing director @Nige_Hart with @scott_chirnside launch @SouthernFS new laboratory facility & equipment for grains testing in Inverleigh, Victoria 🥳 An investment of our infrastructure grants 👇👇👇 bit.ly/3Ns29mx

NVT wheat and barley at SFS site at Hagley TAS looking excellent. Already differences between varieties to see. @SouthernFS @GRDCSouth

NIAB field day - Sutton Scotney nr Winchester UK. Untreated wheat plastered in Sept Trit and Leaf rust in nearly all varieties in wheat trials. Treated plots looking way greener and with high yield potential. Variety resistance definitely providing a big help to foliar fungs!

Our first sample of stripe rust from Hagley, Tasmania, collected @SouthernFS on May 30, 2024. Keep an eye for rust in main crops, volunteer crops and weeds in the field and send it to PBI Cobbitty. @theGRDC @GRDCNorth

A mild winter followed by a wet spring has seen many UK crops severely impacted by Stripe rust, Septoria Trit and Leaf rust as seen in photo from Cereals 2024 in Herts UK.

GRDC HYC Project final year Award reports have all gone out to participating growers in the last few weeks. 66 Wheat, 35 Barley and 15 Spring barley. Lots of detailed agronomic information including the pages in the images below from VIC. Food for thought for the 2024 season!

SFS and @theGRDC are running a series of workshops that explore the key drivers of efficient and profitable use of Nitrogen fertilisers. Workshop 1 focusing on Economics & Diminishing Returns, 19 June, 9.00-11.30am at Mininera. Learn more & register sfs.org.au/events/event/i…

Great news, especially for the HRZ zone, BASF have got registration in Australia for Revystar fungicide, on wheat, barley, oats and canola. With access to a new, more active DMI in a mix with an SDHI, which we're already familiar with, in seed treatment Systiva. More options! 👌

Grain grower Cameron Sandral, from Savernake, NSW, says participating in GRDC’s Hyper Yielding Crops awards has given him more confidence to lift nitrogen inputs to wheat crops on his farm. 👉 Read more about what Cameron did and what he achieved bit.ly/4ct5bSI

Congratulations Bruce Wilson for receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia(OAM), acknowledging his service to the community & agricultural education. Bruce is a founding member of SFS an innovator in agriculture.

Potential sclerotinia risk as rain continues to fall during canola flowering. twitter.com/PaulCrack/stat…

Check out the distributions and frequencies of four pathotypes below @theGRDC @GRDCSouth @GRDCNorth

At the start of my career a wise farmer once told me: Look after the soil and it will look after you! Even more relevant today as we try to produce more food, for more mouths from approx the same land area.

#MFMG is searching for a CEO & Operations Officer. The CEO is a vital role assisting the Board to deliver its strategic plan. The Operations Officer will coordinate, facilitate & deliver projects, project activities & trials. More mackillopgroup.com.au/tenders

GRDC Southern Panel member Patricia Flynn and GRDC Grower Relations Manager @timbateman87 attended the @SouthernFS AgriFocus 2023 event earlier this week in Streatham, Vic. Great attendance and the crops were looking good! Thanks everyone. Good day all round.

SCF study tour visit to Rob Bradley looking at sheep on a ryegrass seed crop at Longford. @Stirlings2Coast @GRDCSouth

Canola under different waterlogging pressure. From normal - back left coming round clockwise to almost no crop with highest waterlogging!

SCF study tour looking at waterlogging tolerance work in canola, beans and barley with TIA in Launceston. @GRDCSouth @GRDCWest @Stirlings2Coast

SCF study tour looking at linear irrigator in onion crop with grower James Clutterbuck at Hagley @GRDCSouth @Stirlings2Coast @GRDCWest