daniel skerman

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@Paul_WeedSmart Yeah, just wanted to check CBA Spin is 2212?

But looks like it is called Spin ??. 🤔🤔

@NSW_AGRONOMY @ChickpeaAus @Paul_WeedSmart Is this 2212 now named ?

🌿Look what the clever folks @ChickpeaAus have done? A new variety with improved PRR resistance! 👏Well done team (and we love the name 🏏) #chickpeas @Paul_WeedSmart

@agrobaz @Ashtaty26 The agro in me “I wonder if we can squeeze in another trial this winter” 🤔😆

@skermo83 @Ashtaty26 It would be useful if the individual products stated rhizobium numbers/g product, or something similar. Maybe someone on here can shed some light here? We did intensive research into this and found massive differences.

Interested in who treats inoculant straight into seeder cart. I’ve always treated into grouper, then into cart to avoid bridging (like most). Tried some lentils today, seems ok so far 🤷‍♂️. Guys at boss said common in north with chickpeas.

@agrobaz @Ashtaty26 I have seen some research which I thought at the time gave me confidence in water injection, have to see if I can find it. To answer your og question, yes they do, but imo and based on exp that’s not a good reason to do it up an auger for a number of reasons!

@agrobaz @Ashtaty26 No! they dont and niether did I! Maybe why we get better result water injecting at double rate up here on chickpeas and mungs. May explain accidental trial with freeze dried up auger not working and variable vs working when put in slot? Hard to find a lot of good info on this

@Ashtaty26 Out of interest, do many people know how much less ‘rhizobium numbers’ you get from freeze dried inoculant? Our team have had a very close look at this, and on acid soils freeze dried inoculant has a lot less numbers to start with than peat. All good if it all takes..

@DaveyJohn_676 @desertfarmer84 @agrobaz Do you have a any pics of how you have it on seed tube to get good coating? We have water injected for years with freeze dried also just into seed trench. Had a good "accidental" trial that made me never do it up the auger again!

@desertfarmer84 @agrobaz Yes because it costs the seed as it goes into the soil we've found it to more effective with early nodulation.

@LachlanNass @dburner996 @agrobaz @jsa_austin @MartinMurray_Ag Yep I concur, I did a 5hr rainfast trial the other day, results…… you need more than 4-5hrs before you put 70mm on it 🙄

@dburner996 @agrobaz @jsa_austin @MartinMurray_Ag Second that 👆

Paraquat Voraxor has smoked the milk thistle, burnt off the fleabane but still has green stem and left the FTR laughing

@lockrey_tony Bad up here still to, have a paddock much like that on a slightly smaller scale, have tried everything need something better.

Pig damage in sorghum. Our most costly & destructive pest this season. Need #GRDC & #CRDC to join #LLS to come together to help quantify losses and cost of joint area wide control.

@dburner996 👎🏻

Like the Dorper of #sorghum

@Episode3net Was always going to be higher without anhydrous ammonia available? A lot of extra tonnes needed? or is that in the domestic share?

There is no urea shortage in Australia this year.

@BenBoughton1 Hi Ben, Id be super keen to have a play with this, to work offline and change the scale would imagery so much easy/quicker to utilise!

@venningj @brodenholland @dyerjonathan @cropscan @TrengoveSam Interesting, as I am starting to wonder how much different the plant behaves in different regions as not seeing the same things you guys are down there. Only 1 year and a couple of crops in so will keep seeing what we can learn, following everyones learning with interest!

@brodenholland @dyerjonathan @cropscan @TrengoveSam running some trials to measure exactly this. The problem with soil tests (as well as VRA tools used for zoning) is they are proxies to guess how the plant behaves and don’t measure plant behaviour itself. Protein maps great for “real plant behaviour data”

Love podcasts, so a bit of a thrill to get asked how we are using protein mapping at our place. @cropscan

@dyerjonathan @cropmad @KateKak @GeezaColeman and as JD said, some chem savings reallocated to machinery, which I dont think alot account for. But we still a long way in front as most are in the north. We can actually kill weeds again!

@dyerjonathan @cropmad @KateKak @GeezaColeman Great thread, kept me thinking also! Been through this last few yrs before puchasing cameras, I think every business/weed spectrum/location will have different set of numbers from what I have seen. 36m SP seemed best fit for us, same hrs just way more efficient and lot less chem,

@GeezaColeman Only 1 optical sprayer within 100km that I know of. A typical summer here <100mm rainfall. This past summer 200-300mm. Very abnormal! But yes a small one for fenceline spraying would be mint. 😉

Mid season update from @skermo83 at our @AuNutrien Cotton Nitrogen Efficiency trials here at Dalby. @Bill_moree @jonobaird Full video at: youtu.be/2r-Fwt4jPdw?si…

@GregWilliment @lance123wise On a weedseeker 2? And with what products?

@lance123wise We run 04 even flat fans 99% of the time

Nozzle selection for weed seekers spraying glyphosate/glufosinate/ Paraquat. Ones we have are dropping bombs(08’s) doing the job but need better coverage. Ideas? Or what are you using.

@rolandhornick @congreve_mark @agrobaz Because it’s in competition to xtendflex probably? Bayer vs corteva

@congreve_mark @agrobaz @skermo83 CSD made a statement, at a meeting, that 24D tolerant cotton was in the pipeline. Someways off for a result. But speaking to breeders and trial management for Xtend Flex, they scoffed and laughed at the possibility. So I can ascertain that it is a ways off

If there was a 24D resistant cotton I'm pretty sure we'd have heard something foodsafetynews.com/2023/06/epa-su…

@rolandhornick @agrobaz How is it misinformation? Corteva have had 24-d tolerant cotton for a number of years I’m pretty sure

@agrobaz Misinformation

@cropmad @DavidPuls @KateKak @congreve_mark @robbert115 Dosatron is what I am keen to try, just trying line up flow rates and dose rates to cover all bases proving harder than I thought!

@DavidPuls @KateKak @skermo83 @congreve_mark @robbert115 I was wondering how a Dosatron would perform delivering liquid AMS on the mains supply feed line to spray water tanks? I’m guessing it would only be good for spraying?

I’ve been thinking along similar lines to Mitch. We should be pre treating our spray water instead of adding AMS to the spray tank the same way we add our other chemicals. Thoughts? @congreve_mark @robbert115