Jake Plattfuss

@charlieblack31 @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth Have had 30kg sowing rate yield the same. More seed doesn’t equal more yield. Normally at 60-70

@JakePlatty @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth 60kg of seed? If so that’s amazing! 12 definitely looks like it’s missing out on potential that’s for sure…

Has anyone got any work on row spacings in aus in a double digit irrigated yield environment. 12 inch vs 6, same machine, same rates, same hour. A fair amount of light hitting the ground in the 12 inch rows. @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth

@charlieblack31 @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth Prob needs to be repeated in a more randomized pattern but hard to do with commercial gear. Appears reduce sowing rate on wide rows and increase on narrow. 🤷‍♂️

@JakePlatty @far_australia @brill_ag @agrobaz @GRDCSouth @JakePlatty did you come to any firm conclusions of your own from this?

@CKMonty @OzIndustries It’s been better. About 94 times in the last 100.

@OzIndustries Desperatly dry now and no rain soon. A wet November will just damage crops before harvest. Its a very dissapointing season.

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@FredVLarsen After 3yrs how do you think it is going? How have the yeilds been compared to the conventional system and or how much n have you created or organic matter have you built in the soil etc?

Nice regrowth in the 3rd year lucerne #livingmulch field. That is 3 cash crops harvested and sold while keeping the same lucerne crop in the bottom to do autumn growth capturing N and sunlight.

“Net zero is going to have absolutely no effect on the climate whatsoever. The vast majority of the globe in both population and GDP are not participating in it, So why are we doing this to ourselves?” Wonderful speech by Barnaby Joyce. 👏🏽

@brodenholland Trying some n later to try and get a better harvest index? Seems to be the key for irrigated wheat.

Canola starting to crank after some big frosts and cold days. Second hit of urea going on. 200kg down 100kg left to go at first flowers

@kelvin_hams Nice. On a side note which tractor do you rate the most of the two, and how are they steering with the greenstar

After 6 years of planning and slowly working on our CTF setup we are finally 100% there. These are the final parts to 100% 15m CTF. These are the first two true 15m 10” dbs bars. And also a first for this property 100% crop fingers crossed for a decent season

@agrobaz @BarryGr66 @Tallawanta Can’t let the other 99% of growers in the industry loose a critical product based on an ‘assumption’. The cost to the rest would be huge.

@BarryGr66 @Tallawanta Yes it’s very easily distinguishable to 2,4-d but good question 👍. We did some intensive studies a few yrs ago which was great to distinguish between the different phenoxy damage symptoms. We don’t know if it’s from drift though, that’s the assumption.

I have been walking #cotton fields in Southern NSW for near to 30 years. I have never seen #phenoxy damage as wide spread as I have this year. #farm incomes will be heavily affected due to this damage. There is more than 1 way to control burrs or melons. This has to STOP!

@AgroJAK @theGRDC @CSIRO @kalyx @deltaag What’s your current observations from the past 2 yrs John ?

Can incorporating stubble with nutrients build soil C? Is incorporation needed? How much? Treatments going in for the 3rd year with the Kalyx Team at the Young site with 7 other sites around the country ⁦@theGRDC⁩ @CSIRO @Kalyx @DeltaAg Soil C Project 2023-2028.

@agrobaz @John_R_Bruce @brill_ag @ZwarFarms What’s the canola secret baz? Our fully irrigated program we can’t get canola past 40% of wheat. Tried everything in the book so far incl gm, cl, on beans, nitrogen, water etc. Is it a soil type thing. We are prob in a softer environment than you guys?

@John_R_Bruce @brill_ag @ZwarFarms Bit of both but yield is king. I’ve found canola to be 65% wheat yield on my farm over past 10yrs. Grown on both pulse and cereal stubble too. I’ve grown bits of bonito up until last yr to remind me of the yield adv of hybrids.

2024 Driest year since 1914, severe frosts in Sept. Crop performance 1- canola (on legume stubble) 2- beans (into stripper straw) 3- wheat 4- canola hay (frosted) 5- barley 6- lentils (driest block) Ground cover was king, fortunate to get what we did. Bring on 2025 🤞

@brodenholland Maybe we need to be talking about farming more in units of output that everyday city people can understand. Yes we used 5l of roundup per ha this year to grow the 18000 loaves of bread per ha. Or yeah our business grew 10 million boxes of weetbix this year.

2/2 this whole social licence is all based on rubbish pushed from either minority groups or but supermarkets trying to pust the new latest fad so they can make more margin on something new eg barn or free range eggs. How about we all meet and talk about the 90% issues instead of focusing on the tiny crap that eventually hinders us so that we can't do what we need to do. We all want to be sustainable but I'm telling you know If we go down the path of the eu or alike we will be way less sustainable and government will be bailing farmers out.

I'm sorry but the whole reason they have an issue with us in the first place is from government and supermarkets telling them how horrible we were and how we should be doing things differently. No one has bothered to come ask us why we do what we do and try to understand. 1/2

@agrobaz @MaurieStreet $7 in a shuttle. Using for pulses. But yeah havnt tried in canola, hence the question. Might run some strips out and test difference

@agrobaz @MaurieStreet 3l x$7. Say $30 incl app. No more costly than windrowing if spray tracks in paddock already, or by plane. Only has to speed up harvest by 5% @$600 /rotor hr to be cost neutral. 5ks /hr to 6ks is doubling your money. 🤷‍♂️

Pic just for you @MaurieStreet 👍🍻

@gsandral @TrengoveSam @agrobaz @benpratt9 @DaveyJohn_676 @CropDoctor54 Interesting you say this Graeme. We have seen a fairly major delay in apr on sunmaster this year in juiced irrigated crops. @s_simpfendorfer says it’s the high n. Only really kicked in at early mid grain fill.

@TrengoveSam @agrobaz @benpratt9 @DaveyJohn_676 @CropDoctor54 It’s interesting how P can bring forward flowering (or deficiency delay flowering) and N can delay flowering. There not large changes but can be significant nonetheless. N delaying flowering can also delay the onset of Adult Plant Resistence for stripe rust.

Sometimes, doing it right is wrong. High P strip doing better all year but unfortunately right at flowering when frost hit. 100% loss

@agrobaz @AgTech_Services @Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @OrrockFarm @stev_tech No not yet. Have only really got radish in last 2 years on some new land we have bought. Did terbyne reflex brodal pspe but the seed bank was pretty high. Did go over some and manually blow patches out.

@JakePlatty @AgTech_Services @Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @OrrockFarm @stev_tech Have you tried ecopar early incrop?

Srayed topped patches of vetch in some beans. @AgTech_Services flew the paddock with drone & mapped out the vetch, loaded map into the topcon in the Rogator, worked a treat 👌 Be better with individual nozzle control, sprayed 0.8ha in 35ha area

@AgTech_Services @agrobaz @Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @OrrockFarm @stev_tech Our irrigated would be a full tall healthy green background. The odd white flowers stick out pretty easy atm.

@agrobaz @JakePlatty @Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @OrrockFarm @stev_tech We gave it a go. If beans are reasonably healthy we had more chance. Short (ankle high) plants under moisture stress were hard as they didn’t provide a good background to pick up the radish against. We still had a 70-80% success rate though.

@stev_tech @agrobaz @Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @AgTech_Services @OrrockFarm Cool. I reckon I might have a few 100ha that will potentially need doing next year if it works.

@JakePlatty @agrobaz @Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @AgTech_Services @OrrockFarm Yep, sounds doable. We have done radish in canola a few times (canola flowers had dropped and radish remained). Sounds similar. We are processing some thistles in lentils this week. Looks good.

@agrobaz @Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @AgTech_Services @OrrockFarm @stev_tech Can they pick radish out of beans baz. Late in season ie now when beans finished flowering but radish still white flowers ?

@Howelly_Agro @ZwarFarms @AgTech_Services @OrrockFarm I used @stev_tech to detect ftr in fallow (green on brown). It would have been awesome if topcons system could handle it. Doing this successfully with other controllers. Weeds down to about coke can top size.