GRDC - Driving Agronomy Podcasts
Summary: Brought to you by the Grains Research and Development Corporation and presented by Online Business Radio’s Chris Brown, Driving Agronomy podcasts are released weekly and discuss various agronomic issues to assist and inform those in the Australian grain industry.
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A new online resource is being trialled. eXtensionAUS aims to widen the network of professional advice to which growers and their advisers have access.
The directions surrounding the use of the herbicide Haloxyfop have been clarified. Find out more about this important issue on GRDC Driving Agronomy.
Farmers are often told to use full label rates when applying chemicals. On this program some of the trickier questions relating to label rates are answered.
Grain growers are being urged to check the quality of their seed grain following concern over insect infestation of some silos.
Understanding your tax return is the key to understanding the health of your farm business. Tax expert Mike Krause from P2PAgri explains on this edition of GRDC Driving Agronomy.
International soil microbe expert, Dr Jack Gilbert discusses the important role of microbes and bacteria in our soils and where current research is taking our understanding of soils.
Researchers have taken a major step towards developing faba beans with naturally occurring herbicide tolerance.
Grain and Graze 3 is underway this time focusing on risk management, grazing on crop lands and crop/fodder rotations
Multiple disease resistance is considered the Holy Grail of barley research. On this program we find out about the GRDC funded project that is leading the way.
There are several ways herbicide resistance can develop on a farm. On this program, we examine where herbicide resistance comes from and how it might arrive in your paddocks.
Nitrogen application can be problematic for growers because of the variables that influence its application and amount. On this program we go through some rules of thumb on nitrogen use both at the beginning and the end of the season.
GRDC is funding research into the development of biopesticides that could be used on a broadacre scale to fight pests like aphids, blackleg and soil borne diseases. On this program Gavin Ash explains the challenges and the rewards of the research.
Farmers and their advisers will soon be able to benchmark themselves against existing average district wheat yields and the potential water limited wheat yields of their district. At the moment farmers nationally are only yielding around 48 percent of what is exploitable from their farms.
On this program Stephen Marcroft from Marcroft Grains Pathology outlines future research into a variety of fungal diseases including Sclerotinia
Farmers have been urged to get nitrogen into their crop efficiently and effectively. Rob Norton from the International Plant Nutrition Institute explains on this edition of GRDC Driving Agronomy.