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December 1999 No. 59
- Westonia wheat
- Eastern States trip - learning about summer crops.
- Cheap Roundup - not here! - Cheaper in NSW.
- The harvest so far
- Table on suggested crop varieties for 2000
- Comments on varieties
- Lathyrus - low risk legume
- Peas
- Tanjil lupins
- Canola varieties
- Clearfield Canola saga - stay away from Pandora's box.
- Summer weed control
- Sunflower bugs
- Sorghum aphids
- Summer rain / Weather web-site (10-day forecast)
- Fertiliser changes for 2000
- Conferences for 2000 - WANTFA, Crop Updates, AgCon 2000
- Faba beans wanted
- GST workshops - run by Lincolns Accountants
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November 1999 No. 58
- Beware of Pandora's Box - IT canola (Clearfield canola)
- Best fertiliser buy
- K-Till - CSBP's all in one seeding fertiliser with potash.
- Plant Breeders Rights - where does each variety stand.
- Summer crop lessons so far
- Canola in Yr 2000
- Mycorrhiza - friendly fungus
- Swathing cereals
- Anthracnose free lupins wanted
- Urea in 2001
- Spread canola residues at harvest far and wide
- GPS options
- DGPS Deals - an article by Paul Hicks (farmer)
-
transmitters and receivers
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October 1999 No. 57
- So you think you don't have nematodes?
- It may not be Septoria - zinc deficiency is widespread
- Incorrect rumours on Triadimefon
- How late is too late? Fungicides on your wheat
- Watch the tips of your wheat - copper deficiency
- What's normal in a cereal crop
- Fertiliser types in Yr 2000
- Fertiliser suggestions
-
Cereal after canola (ie nematodes)
-
Canola
-
Cereals after legumes
-
Pulses
-
Lupins
-
Pasture
- UAN - Urea Ammonium Nitrate
- Late aphids
- Summer crop seedling bugs
- Budworms
- Swathing canola and pulses
- Croptopping
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September 1999 No. 56
- IT canola hiccup - the marketing scheme is a shocker.
- Stem rust - watch your crops
- Sorghum/Millet plantings
-
growing grain sorghum and millet
-
growing forage sorghum and millet
- Herbicide residues that affect warm season crops
- Chickpea Ascochyta
- Trace element fertilisers and nematodes
- Yr 2000 fertiliser best buys
- Spraytopping pastures
- Better weather websites
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August 1999 No. 55
- No-Till special fertilisers
- Nematodes are rampant - what to do now?
- What do manganese and zinc deficiencies look like?
- Manganese confusion? - what rate of which product to spray?
- Trace element compatibilities - getting the right combinations
- Rust, Mildew and Aphid status
- New weather site on the Web
- How to grow Sunflowers
- Sunflower Production with limited in crop rain - article by Jon Wilkinson (Farmer/Consultant)
- More Sunflower comments - local agronomic tips.
- Skip Rows
- Safflowers - how to grow them.
- Buy a thermometer
- Markets for Warm Season Crops?
- Ascochyta on Chickpeas
- Sulphur deficiency in canola
- Dowerin Field Days
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July 1999 No. 54
- Treflan POST-emergent
- Urea and Ammonium Sulphate - top-ups and timings
- Farm hygiene - control all weed nurseries
- The brick wall looms, the impending problem of salinity
- Summer crop preparation
- Slug sequel
- Legume control in canola
- Rust and aphids on early clover
- Downey mildew on canola
- Simazine/Atrazine top-ups
- Spot-Type Net Blotch on barley
- Rust and Mildew
- Aphid situation
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June 1999 No. 53
- Bugs and slugs attacking canola crops
- Aphids again - how to control them
- Downey mildew on canola - getting worse each year
- It's a fungus year - rust, mildew, net blotch etc
- Stem rust
- Pasture Manipulations - best strategies
- Summer crop seminar
- Monza annoyances - stewardship program restrictions
- Radish control strategies
- MCPA LVE - compatible with grass selectives
- Triazine's working? - be patient
- Watch for nematodes
- Fertiliser spreading
- Software offer - Paddock Adviser and Optifert
- Which bug is that? - photos for identification
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May 1999 No. 52
- The season so far
- Summer crop performances - and benefits
- Summer crop seminar
- Geranium and Clover Kill - best strategies
- Marshmallows (mallows) - best strategies to control them
- Mixing order of chemicals
- Aphid control in 1999
- Leaf rust - what to do now
- Wind erosion
- Bug control - Bryobia, lucerne flea and false wireworms.
- Cheaper chemicals coming - featuring Dual
- Lupin sowing times
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April 1999 No. 51
- Canola seed dressings - use of Rovral
- A promising trial for blackleg control
- Winter crops and pastures only are unsustainable
-
principles to consider
-
sheep possibilities
-
lucerne
- What do you want to see? - Do we let sleeping dogs (weeds) lie, or stir and shoot?
- Farm Hygiene
- Peaola - growing peas and canola together
- Rust outlook - and control
- Monza update
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March 1999 No. 50
- Season outlook - Internet sites to check up on weather forecasting
- New Verdict herbicide
- Monza herbicide
- Better oil/wetters
- Sowing in April
- Hakea Oats
- New weed resistance test - Quicktest
- Impact and Blackleg - placement of Impact
- Other fungicide trials for blackleg control
- Fungicide on cereal fertilisers - including trial results
- Bayleton and nematodes
- Stronger Trifluralin
- Grain Drying/Aeration
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February 1999 No. 49
- Wet harvest observations
- Gairdner barley
- Brookton wheat (sprouts)
- Post-Canola Syndrome
-
Nematode problems and poor cereal crops
-
Trace element rates need to be higher
- Best trace element fertilisers to buy - Agras expensive
- 1999 - a Chickpea year?
- Weed control in summer crops
- Which lime source?
- Wheat ergot and control
- New canola and pea varieties
- Impact on fertiliser for blackleg control
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