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@Oscarthefarmer Hold your nerve, plant on May rain. April rain in an anomaly.

Moisture? Full profile but dry on top 2-4inches. Dry sow?

@ProfRayWills @karinstark79 @renew_economy Biodiesel produced on farm will be be infinity cheaper and more sustainable, a no brainer

An electric farm, an electric harvest .... electric everything Farms need to be electric – because, once this kit is scaled appropriately, on-farm costs will be so much lower. reneweconomy.com.au/an-electric-fa… @renew_economy

@jtelferoz @Voz_Dennis And wind and solar are not?

@jtelferoz @Voz_Dennis Understandably, most people are concerned about the short term effects of fuel, we are no further down the track to long-term security. Now is the time to put in place policies that ensure we have a viable by biofuels industry for the long-term security.

In my book War & Wheat, I discuss a mutually beneficial solution for fuel security and agriculture. Whether it was 100 years ago or today, Australia has three challenges. First, an almost 100% dependency on fuel imports. Second, the majority of our crops are export oriented and dependent on shipping. Three, an almost entire dependence on foreign owned vessels to import our fuel and export agricultural goods. During both World Wars, shipping largely disappeared. It was either recalled to home ports of foreign governments, sunk by the enemy or simply too afraid to come to Australia out of fear the government would requisition the vessels for their own use (which was prevalent globally). The result? An inability of Australian crops to be exported and an inability to import fuel. What was the impact? Australian grain piled up at ports and began to rot. Australia fuel supplies ran desperately low. Eventually, towards the end of World War 2, the government started constructing an industry for the production of ‘Power Alcohol’ (biofuel made from wheat). As of 2025, Australia imports ~95% of its domestic fuel use. Some states export over 80-90% of crops that they produce. Creating a crop-based fuel industry in Australia, out of for example canola, has two main benefits. First, it creates partial fuel security, so that at least our critical industries can continue to function during an offshore crisis (not necessarily a war).  Second, it creates a domestic outlet for Australian agricultural product to avoid being excessively dependent on an increasingly unpredictable offshore market. Driving through Victoria and South Australia engaging with farmers over the past 2 weeks, many farmers have only 1-2 weeks of fuel reserves. Farmers that had fuel already ordered are only getting partial deliveries, while others aren't having their phone calls picked up by fuel suppliers. You can find my book on Amazon: “War and Wheat: Navigating Markets During Global Conflict”. #agchatoz

@WheatVelu Richard is coming after Easter, I have some medical issues so I’ll stay home.

@SeedsRebel When are you guys coming??

Getting ready for visitors week @CIMMYT Obregon - though the wheat season is accelerated for high temperatures this year expecting good harvest

@Oscarthefarmer @grok Grain and oilseed bio fuel needs to be on the agenda big time. We ran this line 20 years ago more relevant today Good for consumers good for growers

@grok Domestic fuel storage: how long has Australia had these sub IEA target days use performance levels, under which Governments and during which past conflicts? Is the current situation abnormal? What is additional cost per L of gaining sufficient capacity for diesel?

@Oscarthefarmer Hope you have priced your urea orders

I do find this rather interesting. I also find another thing interesting: What #ausag events and farmer groups receive what funding from who and in what forms. And what dots are and aren't to be joined in looking at the Rep Organisation and ag influence landscape.

@GrainOrana @theGRDC Could you put up a link to data please

On TOMORROW (Wednesday) the @theGRDC West Wyalong Update. GOA is presenting their LOCAL DATA on: 🐛Soil pathogens in central west NSW – what’s out there that we need to be working on? 🦠What's stripe rust really costing us? Yield gap trials with different varieties & fungicides. 🚜Using Riskwi$e data for strategic decisions @ the paddock level. @GRDCNorth @MaurieStreet @bennyob @AjFadge @CSIRO @JohnCameronICAN

@Oscarthefarmer My guess Oscar is the temperature will apply a bigger role than a dry October finish. Our experience tells us that nighttime temperature is more important than daytime temperature. If there is no relief from heat during the night then higher biomass plants like Sunmax suffer.

I dunno so #asktwitter Not sure we'll make 17kg/mm WUE in this Sunmax... totally on gut feel and the dry October finish. Anyone got models or data to inform?

@BCG_Birchip Happy to share novel germplasm

17 senior scientists from CSIRO’s Farming Systems Division will join BCG for a three day think tank focused on the next wave of innovation in broadacre farming. Together, we’ll explore how data, digital tools and regional know-how can shape the future of Australian agriculture.

@agrobaz @HartBrosSeeds Any chance you could rate them

Bit of a snapshot in our stripe rust trial with @HartBrosSeeds this had an early fungicide with a post em spray on 17th July and nothing since. #aggrowagronomy

@PbiCobbitty Matthew give me a call before get to Goondiwindi

Mr Matthew William from the Cereal Rust Survey team (PBI Cobbitty, University of Sydney) is currently on paddock visits across key regions: Wagga Wagga → Griffith → Parkes → Tamworth → Goondiwindi → Toowoomba. Keep an eye out.

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Looks like a Borlaug years in a lot of places.

@todd_venning @HoolyMcg @yazza97118774 Fat flags enjoy wide rows

@HoolyMcg @yazza97118774 Vertical flag leaf is much more light efficient and also water efficient... Flat flags overheat just like steel laying on the ground and transpire mass amounts of water to keep themselves from cooking.

Iv never seen flag leaves this big in Zen wheat before. And im not average height.

@Kenya_Agron David where does chickpea lines come from.

No sign of the azoxystrobin treated plots delaying senescence in the chickpeas. No visual difference from 0 vs 100kg/ha of TSP either which is highly encouraging.

@stevross001 Crop Competition here we come

Borlaug wheat Carroll NSW

@Kenya_Agron @agrobaz @DamScanlan David it would be good to know the the identity of resistant lines.

Don't know the genetics I'm afraid, this is an assortment of material from cimmyt. They test and screen at Obregon and Toluca for Fusarium I believe before it gets here. Im certainly impressed with some of the white grain wheats though, which is in past have been quite poor on Fusarium.

Very impressed with the Fusarium resistance of some of the new wheat candidates. Kasuku is just too susceptible and risky - on to of its sprouting. Shows the value of purposefully looking for difficult sites through the selection process to weed out weak material.

@DarrenAis Well done Darren look forward to seeing you on our northern travels

Our services have now expanded to include spray drone capability. Excited to take delivery of a DJI AGRAS T50 for replicated plots, test strips, or commercial application. Building on our mapping / monitoring services. #ausag #CQ