Our Soil Management Systems team packed up our Soil Test Kits, Banners and Product Samples and headed off to the South East Field Days on the 15th & 16th of March in Lucindale. The weather was glorious and we Northerners even saw a ting of green. As with most years that we attended, we enjoyed […]
Balanced nutrients can help in times of drought because they create a healthy living soil. With the very challenging 2018 season behind us we look forward to hopefully a productive and profitable 2019 season. While some in the more favoured southern areas had a profitable year with high grain prices these same high prices doesn’t […]
In October, the town of Orroroo “Painted The Town Pink” to raise funds and awareness for cancer. All local businesses including ourselves helped to support this great initiative. Like countless regional South Australian communities, the town of Orroroo, home to about 500 people, has seen the impact of cancer firsthand. Our small community has families […]
Traditional fertilisers may destroy plant microbiome’s ability to protect against disease. Research Biologist at University of California US found that beneficial microbes on leaves of plants protect the plant from disease causing bacteria, but when the plant was fertilised the protection was negated leading to an increase in the population of pathogenic microbes on the […]
Amplifying Nitrogen Effects With Higher Sulphur Inputs. Like all good nutrition, balanced soil nutrition is about getting the nutrients right. In this post, we look at the greater efficiencies of using Ammonium Sulphate and Sulphur to provide Nitrogen. It is essential for any applied fertiliser that all nutrients be in BALANCE to achieve efficiencies and […]
[Transcript of Cropping Inputs, Diary Number 1] Hello. Welcome to this session of Cropping Inputs Diary. To start this series on cropping inputs, I want to start building with the first and most important thing that we need to do, which is Independent Comprehensive Soil Testing. When considering our inputs, good data and a full […]
[Transcript of Cropping Inputs, Diary Number 2] Hi, welcome to this month’s Cropping Inputs Diary. Last month we discussed Independent Comprehensive Soil Tests, as a first step towards deciding cropping inputs. We talked about the importance of balanced soils that encourage our diverse and active life in the soil. With these key points in mind, […]
[Transcript of Cropping Inputs, Diary Number 3] Hello and welcome to the third addition of our cropping Inputs Diary. Last time, I discussed inputs into our cropping programme that we should avoid if we really want to look after the soil and increase its productivity over the long term. That is soil that is healthy […]
[Transcript of Crop Diary, September] Hi. Welcome to this month’s Crop Diary report for September. Last month I talked about the Carbon farming conference held in Albury New South Wales where the federal government direct action policy of carbon segregation into agriculture soils was the main discussion, and where I presented a paper on building […]
[Transcript of Crop Diary, October] There is a problem in Australia called subtle soil degradation. This is when there is soil degradation is not noticed by the farmer, because it is so subtle from one year to the next, taking years and decades to be recognised. By this time, it can be very expensive to […]