In a high yield potential season, seeding wheat at 60kg/ha gave a higher yield and gross margin than seeding at 30kg/ha; but there was no further benefit in going to 90kg/ha.
At Yuna, frost in September affected grain yield and quality of the short maturity varieties but not the longer maturing varieties Magenta and Calingiri.
Broadacre producers contending with moisture stressed crops and pastures recently and hungry livestock have been urged to consider grazing crops to balance the overall profitability of their operat
The Stakeholder Reference Group for the Department of Agriculture and Food’s $20 million Boosting Grains Research and Development project had its inaugural meeting recently.
