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SANTFA 2007 Journal |
Winter Edition Month: July Vol: 4 No: 3 |
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 Grazing Cereals | |||||||||
| Title: Mind-set key to success with grazing cereals | Author: Graeme Jennings | ||||||||
| Grazing cereals can provide valuable stock feed. In some conditions early grazing can also increase grain yields. In other circumstances grazing can reduce grain production. The outcome of a ‘graze and grain’ scenario is strongly influenced by rainfall, time and duration of grazing and the cereal being grazed. | |||||||||
| Cereals, and other grasses, produce more winter and total biomass than annual pasture legumes and can provide invaluable ‘early feed’ for livestock in autumn and early winter. But can cereals provide ‘early feed’ and set grain? The answer is ‘yes, but …’ There are in fact several ‘buts’, including annual rainfall, the timing and duration of grazing, time of sowing... | |||||||||
| No-till Experience | |||||||||
| Title: No doubt on no-till | Author: Mike Roberts CRC | ||||||||
| Conservation farming practise had it's beginnings in the 1980's at Wirrabarra, SA. Russell Zwar has never known anything different to the no-till system that was established before he returned to the farm after study. | |||||||||
| “I’ve never worked a paddock in my life. “Dad started no-tilling before I returned to the farm and I’ve never really known any different,” Russell Zwar said when asked how the practice of no-till evolved on the family property at Wirrabara in SA’s Mid North. His father Don remembers that as an apprentice farmer Russell was never able to get his ‘eye in’ on cultivators and ha... | |||||||||
| Innovation | |||||||||
| Title: 'Seriel experimenter' passing on good ideas | Author: Mike Roberts CRC | ||||||||
| A change of perception has led to changes to faming practices, buisness direction and lifestyle for northern Yourke Peninsula farmer's Mark and merridee Schilling. | |||||||||
| “I used to think a brown paddock with rows of grass coming up was the most beautiful thing in the world but now I think a grey-white stubble with green crops coming through in rows beats it hands down!” The change from conventional farming to no-till indicated by this change in perspective has led to changes in Mark and Merridee Schillings’ farming practices, business direction and lif... | |||||||||
| Crop Nutrition | |||||||||
| Title: Nutrition: getting it right | Author: Mick Faulkner, Agrilink Agricultural Consultants Pty Ltd | ||||||||
| Plant disease or nutrition deficiency? Mick Faulkner, of Agrilink Agicultural Consultants Pty Ltd provides the heads up on the major elements required for plant growth and production. | |||||||||
| It appears that every few years there is a nutrition cycle where solid principles give way to fads and expensive programs. I am always concerned that, because there are so few plant nutrition and physiology specialists, we can be easily led by those with the latest miracle product or mind-blowing fertiliser regime. Let’s stick to fact when discussing and implementing nutrition practice... | |||||||||