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December 2000 No. 70

• Holiday expenses in perspective
• No-till fertiliser update
• SuperK and Vigour - potassium containing compound fertilisers.
  One is better than the other
• Canola hates drought - and frost!
  Disastrous year for canola
• If summer rains come and what to do
• Summer crop pest control
• Table of suggested crop varieties for the Great Southern in 2001
• Locust update
• Seminar/Conference dates
• Row spacing and using shielded sprayers between rows

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November 2000 No. 69

• Drought observations
    Seeding method - no-till the best
    Canola - 5/m2 is enough
    Wheat varieties
    Lupins, Barley and Oats
    Stem rust and fungicide
    Summary
• Varieties to keep for 2001
    Wheat
    Barley
    Lupins
    Peas
    Oats
    Chickpeas
    Canola
• Clearfield changes for 2001
  - IT Canola & Wheat
• Long summer for wind erosion
  - keep some cover on the paddocks
• Summer crop prices - don't short-change yourself
• Stomp becoming more attractive
• Screenings at harvest
• Study tours in 2001
• 2001 fertilisers
• Locust update - Fipronil working, and working
• Services in 2001
• Fluid Phosphate correction
• Feed for sale

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October 2000 No. 68

• Fipronil trial results
• Cheaper alternatives to Fipronil
• Benefits of using Canola oil against locusts
• What to do now regarding locusts
• Liquid fertilisers - the upsides and downsides of using it - and cautions required
• Green Nullabor - effect on locusts
• Fertilisers in 2001
• Crop-topping legumes
• Lupins are not what they used to be - new nematodes are destroying wheat after lupins
• Eggs and baskets - winter crops & pastures "only" is putting all your eggs in one basket
• Stem Rust - it is not over - what to do
• Potassium and drought - lack of potassium increases a plant's susceptibility to drought
• Controlling weeds in warm season crops
• Swathing canola
• Cheaper newsletters coming - electronic versions only

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September 2000 No. 67

• Zinc deficiency or Septoria - Many are diagnosing Zinc deficiency for Septoria.
  How to tell the difference, and what to do.
• Copper deficiency - widespread, what to look for, and what to do about it.
• Carnamah wheat - the worst for leaf tipping (might be signs of copper deficiency).
• Aphids eaten up - no more aphid problems due to predators eating aphids all up.
• Very weedy areas - an opportunity for a Warm Season Crop.
• Fungicide timings revisited - more on rates and timings of Triadimefon fungicide.
• Farm hygiene - why you need to control your weed nurseries.
• Late nitrogen/sulphur on canola - often worth it.
• Fertilisers in 2001 - get Optifert software.
• Warm Season Crops - varieties and tips.
• Cosmos and canola - growth promotent effects are very real.
• Fipronil facts - it is the best and cheapest chemical to control the locust plague, and how to use it.

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August 2000 No. 66

• Rust is serious - prevention approach is required. Fungicides/doses to use.
• Locust control - what works, what is best?
    Rates to use.
    How & where to spray.
    What & where they eat.
• Behind every cloud - providing for livestock in view of short supply of feed grain & hay.
• It is not all Blackleg - Downey Mildew disease - how to tell the difference.
• Cosmos/Rovral observations on canola.
• Resistant ryegrass - when nothing works - what to try.
• Dual, Propon - what I am seeing - observations.
• Fungicide strategies on chickpeas and faba's - when and what to spray

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July 2000 No. 65

• Value of press-wheels
• Wind erosion - not an option and should be a thing of the past
• Night-time spraying - the best time
• Spraying crops at different growth stages - what to do
• Dual Gold and ryegrass control
• Residuals not working - what to do now
• Grass selective mixtures - what's best
• Trace element deficiencies likely this month - strategies to correct them
• Electronic newsletters - receiving this newsletter via the Internet/E-mail
• Affording summer crops - cannot afford not to grow them
• Preparing for summer crops
• Aphid and rust strategy in the coming months
• Big boy's win again - cropping operations and silo storage - selling later for higher prices
• Clover gone - warning not heeded in April newsletter

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June 2000 No. 64

• Nervous times waiting for rain
• Dry sowing - for cereals, don't!
• Canola planting - how late is too late?
• Cereal planting - how late is too late?
• Other crops and how late?
• Rushed planting techniques
• Aphids on canola
• Controlling weed escapes/transplants
  • Capeweeds
  • Radish et al
  • Geranium (Storksbill)
• Caution - Dual and Propon (2,2-DPA)
• Balaustium mite update
• Pasture bugs - control strategies
• How to kill lucerne?
• Late sowing nutrition
• Rust Resistance - broken down and might be none?
• Check out our Website

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May 2000 No. 63

• Seen your pastures lately? How to control aphids
• Locust egg beds
• Ash and Chemicals
• Canola herbicide and insecticide strategy
• Marshmallow control - what works.
• Pasture manipulations - Simazine/Amine brews
• Time-rite is last resort for red-leg control. Alternative suggestions.
• Geranium and clover control
• Herbicide brew suggestions for
  • Wheat
  • TT Canola / Normal Canola / Clearfield Canola
  • Barley
  • Oats
  • Lupins
  • Peas/Lathyrus
  • Chickpeas
  • Faba beans
• Multi-spectral Airborne Video Imaging System (MAVIS)

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April 2000 No. 62

• Locust control and other benefits of Fipronil insecticide
• Should you control locusts now with sprays and or pickling seed?
• If I was very, very wet - high risk paddocks
  • sowing cover crops - Lathyrus & Cadiz
• Canola sowing times
• New chemicals - Balance; Affinity; Jockey; Hussar; Kerb; Gaucho.
• More on 2,2-DPA and mixtures
• Fungicide strategies for Calingiri and Westonia
• Canola fertiliser strategy
• Websites of interest
• Nematode management in cereal crops
• Digital cameras - email pictures of problem plants for advice
• Spotted Alfalfa Aphids - damage and control
• Bits and Pieces about Summer crops; Lime pelleted canola; Rovral + Cosmos for blackleg control
• Index of 1999 newsletters

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March 2000 No. 61

• Clearfield canola blackleg ratings - low and are therefore risky varieties
• Clearfield canola  - more thoughts
• Forage sorghum better than lucerne in water use and productivity?
• Sowing forage sorghum now to re-grow in Spring
• Cover crops - including Cadiz serradella and Lathyrus peas
• Fungicide strategies this year
• Keep trace element levels up - copper, zinc, manganese, potassium
• Advice on Seed dressings
  • Canola
  • Barley
  • Chickpeas
  • Peas
  • Lupins
  • Lathryus
  • Faba beans
• Dual, Kerb and 2,2-DPA - how and where to use them
• Impact in-furrow fungicide on canola varieties
• Same as usual is not an option
  • how not to lose Roundup
  • Cropping with less weeds and less cost
  • Summer Crops in rotation
• Wide rows OK on chickpeas
• Turbo-drop nozzles - don't use them
• Calingiri update

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February 2000 No. 60

• Summer weed control
• NSW Summer Crop tour and lessons learnt
• Row width possibilities - using shielded sprayers in summer & winter cropping
• Lupins - high risk this year because of waterlogging
• Variety Performance Update on:-
  • Brookton wheat
  • Calingiri wheat
  • Camm & Nyabing wheats
  • Carnamah (A.Hard)
  • Gairdner barley
  • Pinnacle canola
• 2000 rust risk on cereal varieties
• New chemicals of interest
• Kerb (Propyzamide - Group K)
• Dual (Metolachlor - Group K)
• Dalapon (2,2DPA also known as Propon - Group J)
• When to harvest Summer Crops
  • Sorghum
  • Corn
  • Sunflowers
  • Safflowers
  • Millett
• GPS article by Paul Hicks - Part 2 of 3 - on Yield Mapping & what this technology can do for you Collecting the data
  • Yield Mapping Software
  • Essential Reading
  • Surf'n the web - sites to check out
• 1999 Newsletter package - Special offer

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