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@agrobaz Have a look at Able Sales. We have a dozen of them.

What’s people’s thoughts on best value diesel air compressors for blowing down machinery? Mainly harvesting, single hose. Thinking 185 plus.

@LachlanNass @brodenholland Many positive things could be written about a group of young, keen agriculturalists learning from the best 🤷🏻‍♂️ Given they are way more likely to lose their life at work than a council worker is there any reason not to make them easy to see? It’s not a fashion show.

@brodenholland Looks like a bunch of council workers

Huge thanks to Warakirri Cropping for taking the time to come to our place, was an awesome morning with some great discussions. They are a great business, with Australian agriculture at front of mind and they are fantastic at sharing for the rest of Aus Ag to learn.

@brill_ag @theGRDC Any likely chemical constraints at depth that would impact plant N uptake Rohan? My intuition tells me after two cereal crops that there is a reason N wasn’t used (other than frost)?? Would be great to see segmented results?

Variability from 29 * 0-150 cm soil N tests at our @theGRDC Pulse Agronomy site this year, 3 ha total size.

@JackNeff_ He clearly has nothing to do with that pile up.

SVG is lucky that wreck happened so everyone would forget that he tried to throw it 4 wide!!! Into 3! What a idiot #nascar

@ipaddockapps But you’ll get rhizoctonia in your wheat 🥴 #sarcastic

Debunking the myth that you need deep digging tines to get tap roots in canola. Long disc history, sodic clay at 4"

@brodenholland Great thread as always BH. IMO there is a big difference between 110 plants/m2 at 7.5” and 110 plants/m2 at 12”. Better SBU and freedom to tiller at narrow spacing. Wide spacing seems to cause too much competition within the row and heads/m2 declines as a result.

Plants per m2 talk. Reminder that it's much easier to get a high and profitable yield out of a lower plant count than it is out of a high one, as long as everything else is done right. This was scepter last year sown at 50kg, 110 plants m2, 3 tillers and did 6.4t/ha. Should I do a video or podcast on this or something? Obviously only my opinion but we have come from 150 plants and above (70kgish seed rates) and coming back has gained us alot. I just don't wanna see people across all rainfall zones loose yield coz there growing to much biomass.

@therealbiztang Will travel for the right 🍺

World’s shittest farm award goes to me. Time to find a small combine seeder to fill in the gaps 🤣🤣

@AngusPadfield @grassrootsag We have both Plozza and Horsch Tiger on one farm. Plozza best for amelioration of non wetting sands or where subsoils are strongly alkaline with an acid throttle up top. Tiger best for 0-30cm mix.

@grassrootsag Do you have a picture of the mixing job it does? Currently Plozza ploughing to a depth of 300mm but trafficabilty and mixing at depth are not amazing.

Lime spreading & incorporation in full swing with areas of favourable moisture. Lime rates calculated using CEC & target pH following 5cm segmented soil testing. An expensive process but proven to reduce stratification & lift yields. Horsch Tiger mixing lime to 230-250mm depth.

@LinkBrokering Hope you bounce out of there with a new lease on life 🤞🏻

Here again. This time planned for a follow up from the heart attack and further stent work. Awake for the whole thing. Very uncomfortable but I wore it as best I could. Bit drugged out as it looks. 🤞🤙

@GribbleRC @NewHollandAG It’s a big shift in logistics. Long paddocks fill the box in 33% less distance. When the augers crop side it’s a challenge.

Can see a big future for this setup in OZ. @NewHollandAG

@Ashley_Jacobs92 So thinking out loud….+0.39t/ha yield + disc field and fuel efficiency + stripper field and fuel efficiency + long term cooler soils and increased fallow efficiency. Are there any other meaningful positives I am missing?

GRDC stubble height trial 3rd year results were very interesting: strip disc 4.22t/ha, draper disc 3.83t/ha, draper tyne 3.77t/ha. A warm year with summer rain and a dry finish with no frosts all worked in favour of stripper stubble this year. We have found the strip disc niche.

@agrobaz @drage_farms has done a bit.

Has anyone on here invested in the new DJI agras T50 spray drone? These look bloody good and are getting closer to reality for getting some productive use out of them. I also see benefits in Ag research, but also spraying fence lines, channels etc. Keen to hear thoughts

@mdfowler100 Would Newton winter Barley be worth a trial? Grain and graze also an option with it. Winter wheat has excelled in our frost prone zones.

I have been growing COMMODUS barley in our lower-lying frosty country (Maximus & Neo elsewhere). Looking for a better option as Commodus is not yielding enough IMO. Medium rainfall - Tincurrin/Wickepin/Dudinin, so 🥶. Thoughts?

@simonmaechling The comments are reminding me why @bluesky is a much better platform for rational discussion

Lots of talk about Bovaer. Chemist speaking here. Time for some facts. Bovaer, also known as 3-nitrooxypropanol, is a small organic molecule with a nitrooxy group attached to a propane backbone. Its structure is simple yet powerful in targeting methane emissions in livestock.

@S_M_Bowman @GribbleRC @brill_ag I think the discussion was around chaser bins rather than field storage 😉

@cropmad @GribbleRC @brill_ag $85,000 for 100-120t storage off 1 tractor (depending on how you fill them) with electric clutches. Don’t need a shed to live in either

500 v 270 kg urea in 2022 Maximus barley

@GribbleRC @brill_ag Please show me where we can buy a bin for $120k 😢🙏?

@brill_ag More dollars were made with 2388’s & Bordi bins than could ever be made with $999,000 headers & $120,000 bins nowadays.

@SimonCotter62 Why are we obsessed building vehicles to carry 90% of their payload behind the axle centre line. Such a stupid design. Dual cab small trucks make so much more sense…

Ford are going to produce a Super Heavy duty Ford ranger. GVM of 4.5 tonne Carrying capacity 1.3 tonne Big diffs big chassis. Aimed at fleet so itwill be rubber floors etc Done right thats going to shoot the 70 series in the foot.

@James_Stacey_ @LinkBrokering Hope you get sorted quickly Dion.

@LinkBrokering Good luck Dion.

Well, here we go again. Dion has fucked it all up for a second go, but made it through….again. I’m a resilient little prick. Short version is 873 days and I’m back here again for a different reason, and yes THEY FUCKING HURT!

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

@timmort_ @Oscarthefarmer I’m starting to miss important and educational posts due to the sheer volume of crap and the timeline filtering that’s started to happen here. There are so many excellent farmers who have left this place over the years - such a shame.

@Oscarthefarmer @cropmad I love the messy sandpit of Twitter. Have learnt so much here mostly being a silent observer. Yes a bit of collateral damage when you get the battle of opinions etc. but that’s life.

#Agsky It’s just over there 👉