Monica Field

Friendly reminder to always use fresh Clethodim 👌🏻

@Wamballup Yes it does generally help (reducing food source) but have still seen mice problems on mixed farms. Harvest timing and header losses pretty critical, and summer rain helps out too. Unfortunately big crops even small losses can become problematic.

I pick up the paper and read about mice problems. If you include sheep they eat any grain left on the ground and when walking around fill in the burrows mice problems solved Someone correct me if I am.wrong

@dyerjonathan @ipaddockapps @MerrettContract @russmerrett Didn’t look to pretty in that wind yesterday sorry mick 😬

@ipaddockapps @MerrettContract @russmerrett looks relevant. 👀

The perfect seeder for ameliorated sand. This deep fine sand was mouldboard inverted to 30cm last week, now seeding with exact depth control straight out of the plowed sand and into the sprayed off cooch and bullrush patches. #ipaddockalphadisc still ticks all my boxes ☑️

Love him or hate him he makes a very good point here. No one is immune to mental health struggles. Men speaking openly like this helps everyone.

@gsandral For us the spend and return on nitrogen in wheat is gonna be tougher. I’d say some sub optimal N rates in wheat with priority being canola and barley. Gonna be a hard balancing act though.

Context important. Wheat sowing area still likely to be above 15 year average for Australia. Possible larger impact ….will the wheat area to be sown get fertilised to its water limited potential given current N prices. All this in the context of strong world wheat stocks.

@cameronjohno @andrewpolk7 @APVMA Reports need to go back to APVMA if 25s are used and ineffective. We were told they have never had any reports of failures, which many agronomist and farmers that have dealt with similar situations have experienced. It was the impetetus for CSIRO to do the research they did.

The mouse population in parts of wa is out of hand @APVMA seems to not have an interest in doing anything about an emergency permit for us. All knowing full well that 25 g active mouse bait is not effective. The numbers we have are the worst I’ve seen.

@ipaddockapps @drage_farms The company that jumped up and down and swore black and blue the CSIRO data was wrong and we only needed the 25s, is now the one and only company with a “research permit” for the 50s… it’s a little suss for my liking 🤔.

@drage_farms Is that required to get a permit extension for the 50?

Whats the current situation with mice and bait availability? Being asked about it

We have experienced bad situations a few years back and label rates of the 25 baits can and have failed at high populations. Solid data from CSIRO about the 50 strength bait & fatal dose. Unsure why this has been so dismissed by the @APVMA.

Snail activity WA (9-14 Apr): Slight drop in #pointedsnail movement at #Gibson cam past few days but still very active. See them respond fast when RH (blue line) increased from 80->90%+! (10/4, left) 🐌⏩Cam now up at #Palmdale; moderate recent activity (9/4, right) @GRDCWest

The Esperance zone has been very fortunate with the rain gods for march and early April. Lots of rotation changes, concerns about Nitrogen and diesel, but seeding is mostly underway 🌱🌱. It’s going to be a tricky year to manage, look after each other.

@sizov_andre @Warwick_Long Was already a drop in wheat hectares in south eastern WA, due to lack of chance of making a profit. Plans have already seen more of a hit since the fuel/fertiliser situation as well. Mainly in the place of barley, pulse, livestock area if an option.

This reporting looks slightly off. Reuters:“Australian #wheat area could drop 10%+ - somebody”. I suspect we will see a smaller decline (Australian farmers are more or less covered for the planting stage) but lower nitrogen application later. Comments from farmers are welcome. —- “Australia's #wheat planting could drop by 10% to 12% given the current conditions, from 12.4 million hectares a year ago, an agricultural broker and an analyst said. Cultivation of #canola is also likely to decline despite higher returns, they said. Both declined to be named.” #oatt

Este vídeo me parece brutal. Todas las métricas importantes indican que vivimos en el mejor momento de la historia, a pesar de los profetas de la desgracia.

First pics of #snail movement from the snail cam at Gibson WA for autumn 2026! Heaps of #conicalsnail movement here from 27/3-1/4 following rain 🌧️ in late March (vid from 29/3 below). Potentially a great time to #bait active snails; test at small scale first @GRDCWest🐌

@BlakelyPaynter @DPIRDbroadacre @ConsultAg Would love a project like this to be done in the canola space in WA. Support more oat work but would love more work on phenology and early sowing data on our major profit driver: Canola @GRDCWest.

1st sowing date at Merredin of the POP-funded oat agronomy project planted. How do Goldie and Minnie fare under different nitrogen and density strategies when sown on 02 April? What lessons will we learn? @DPIRDbroadacre @ConsultAg

@WheatWatcher Stopped on the side of the road between farms to check out the beauties. Pincushion Hakea 💕

Anxiety is flaring up with everyone at the moment, whether you are in the city, town or farm. Social Media is depressing. What good news does everyone have? I've spent the past five days in my hometown with family, I've eaten lots of my favourite (beige) foods

Losing 7 to 9 millions tonnes of grain production per tonne of nitrogen fertilizer missing.

@WheatWatcher What would be interesting is normal starter, reduced nitrogen. As that’s the biggest concern this side of Aus

@agromons Somewhat massively diminished. Beer in mind this is with no fert, that’s not the risk at the moment

A somewhat large drop in crop production This is very very rudimentary, but many estimate around 40% drop in yields without fertiliser.

@NSWFarmers CropARM (armonline.com.au/wc) provides a guide as to what 'someone diminished' looks like. Wheat at Gunnedah Sowing nitrogen: 25kg N/ha vs 100 kg N/ha Predicted mean yield: 1.3 t/ha vs 3.7 t/ha Predicted gross margin: $148/ha vs $777/ha Somewhat diminished indeed...

Fertiliser not turning up: can your supplier walk away? What to do if the supplier pulls force majeure on you. Read the more on the link: episode3.net/conversations/…