INDEX FOR 2001 NEWSLETTERS

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December 2001 No. 81

• The roller-coaster continues
• Sunn Hemp update
• Locust update
• Variety table for 2002, including comments
• Weed control options in summer crops
• Summer weed control
• Sunflower bugs
• Sorghum & corn aphids
• Saia oats
• Summer crop tours
• Time for Molybdenum? Part 2
• Status of AgWA Crop Varieties - enclosed table
• Fertiliser option - importing fertiliser at reduced prices

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November 2001 No. 80

• Clearfield Canola changes coming in 2002
• Diamond Back Moth control
• Roundup duty saga
• Sunn Hemp update - Pros and Cons
• Oilseed radish  - a deep ripper
• Liquid N products
• Beeline alone is not enough - Use wide row spacing also
• Surpass 402CL problems
• The Nitrogen and acidity story
• Aphids do need controlling
• Time for Molybdenum?
• In case it rains now

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October 2001 No. 79

• Spraying with a swather
• Clearfield herbicide residues
• Crop-topping legume crops
• Rutherglen bug control in sunflowers
• Spraytopping with Roundup
• Late radish control in cereals
• Affinity performance
• Suggested price update on feed grains
• Swathing blackleg resistant canola
• Locust threat
• Aphids in canola and cereals
• Fungicides on cereals
• New varieties of canola, wheat, barley and lupins in 2002
• Big is best with canola seed
• Canola and cereal residues
• Fertilisers 2002

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September 2001 No. 78

• A glimmer of hope - the rains have come
• Bolted wheat
• 2-bag potential crops - what to do with low yield potential paddocks
• Aphids in canola and lupins
• Aphids in pastures
• Fungicides in cereals
• Copper deficiency
• Sorghum and corn varieties
• Growing cotton
• Aphid control in summer cereal crops
• Other insect control in summer crops
• Patrol tender wrap-up
• WANTFA Meckering Field Day
• Selective harvesting - using aerial images for yield and quality decisions
• Lupin and oat prices - do not sell too cheaply
• Funding available for Dumbleyung zone farmers - take the money
• 2002/3 grain prices
• Emailed newsletter changes

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August 2001 No. 77

• It can rain after all
• Dead crops? Not necessarily - do not give up hope
• Look for the silver lining in the drought
• Nitrogen on Canola and other crops
• What to do with bare paddocks
• Forage sorghum feed value
• Forage sorghum or millet?
• A few suggestions about your Hay crops
• Spraying with frosts
• Sunn Hemp seed
• Sulphonyl Urea on IT Canola
• OnDuty weed control
• Herbicide residue problems in-front of summer crops
• Why is ryegrass disappearing?
• Want to work in the UK?
• Varieties of summer crops
  - suggestions for Sunflowers, Safflower, Forage sorghum and Millet
• Row planter available for hire
• Dowerin Field Days
• GI factor & chickpeas

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July 2001 No. 76

• June drought and what to do
• Spraying in the dust and spraying stressed plants
• Reducing sheep feed risks - planting forage sorghum or millet
• Surpass 402CL canola and Brodal problems
• Summer crop preparation
• Downey mildew in Canola
• Spray oils on Canola
• Control of slaters
• Snippets of advice :-
  
  • OnDuty timing and oil rates
  • Glean and Ally in front of Clearfield canola
  • Bugle Canola and lucerne flea tolerance
  • Cosmos and Rovral on canola
• Sowing without knockdowns
• Manganese deficiency in cereals
• Nitrogen rates
• Guildford grass out of Lupins - salvage option
• Cereal aphids

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June 2001 No. 75

• Dissolving Affinity problems
• Water Quality - summary of what chemicals have problems with different water quality
• Something to remove - single trees, root and rock piles
• Mixing order with spray tanks
• No early aphid sprays required
• A Biological solution to non-wetting
• When is it too dry to sow?
• Spraying snippets
• Trace elements sprays
• Control of weed nurseries
• Using Hybrid seed for cover crops
• Pasture manipulations
• A WARM Conference
• Car Tender invite

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May 2001 No. 74

• Amazing Sorghum - details of trials in Morawa
• Canola seed rates
• Wheat outlook
• Tips for dry sowing
• Placement of Treflan
• Chemical suggestions for full-cut sowing on various crops
• Killing Lucerne
• Post-emergent herbicide brews - for cereals and other crops - chickpeas, lupins, canola
• Setting up cover crops for summer crops
• Pasture manipulations (will be in June 2001 newsletter)
• 10 day Rainfall outlook

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April 2001 No. 73

• High grain prices
• Soil tests - are they worth it anymore?
• Jockey and blackleg control in Canola
• Weed mapping will not happen
• Treflan post-emergent
• Comments on Hussar herbicidev
• Sowing early
• Carbon waffle
• False wireworms on Canola after Lupins
• Sorghum instead of Lupins
• Cover crop results - on Sunn Hemp and Saia oats
• How to identify and control:
  
  • Bryobia mites
  • Balaustium mites
  • Red Legged Earth Mites
  • Blue Oat mites
• Locusts are back - what to do
• Suggested chemical brews for:
  
  • Knockdowns
  • Wheat
  • TT Canola
  • Normal Canola
  • Clearfield Canola
  • Barley
  • Oats
  • Lupins
  • Peas/Lathyrus
  • Chickpeas
  • Faba beans
  • Pastures & post-emergent control in crops (in next newsletter)

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March 2001 No. 72

• Herbicide residue problems - SU and Atrazine residues a likely problem this year
• High grain prices - do not look a gift horse in the mouth.
• Clearfield canola - other herbicides they can tolerate
• Clearfield wheat - don't bother growing it
• Better slug and snail control - Clartex, an improved pellet
• Peaola with Clearfield canola - how to grow peas and Clearfield canola together
• Balance - a new and must use herbicide for broadleaf weed control in chickpeas
• Marshmallow - even better options now available to control this weed
• Hammer - a better herbicide spike than Goal or Spark
• Hussar - another new SU herbicide for cereals
• Jockey - not only for wheat, but it also controls blackleg in canola
• Pledge (flumioxazin) - a new knockdown herbicide coming
• Sniper - a better Brodal
• Paragon - Tigrex performance at half the rate
• Raptor - a new pea herbicide. Also useful in pastures.
• 2,4-D activity - what are the relative rates required between the phenoxy herbicides
• Knockdown herbicide reminders - summary of some techniques and brews
• Weather radar - new website to see if it is raining on the horizon
• Saia oats - black oats makes a come back as a fantastic cover crop option
• Surpass 402CL - some seed still available of this blackleg resistant, very high yielding canola

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February 2001 No. 71

• Contacts for Cheap Ammonium Sulphate
• Air-diffuser idea - an option to sow on wide rows with an air-seeder without damaging seed
• Clearfield Canola deals - only sow the blackleg resistant varieties
• Suggestions on how to grow Clearfield Canola efficiently
• Canola variety recommendations, including blackleg ratings
• Summary of suggestions with seed pickles for:-
  
  • Wheat
  • Canola
  • Barley
  • Oats & Triticale
  • Chickpeas
  • Lupins
  • Faba beans
  • Peas
  • Lathyrus
• Cotton better than wool???
• Comments on observations from study tour to SA & NSW
• Beeline/Farmlap and co - enables self steer and tramlining
• Benefits of wide rows and tramlining
• Canola and Gypsum - sulphur and nitrogen strategy reminder
• Hasten slowly - don't throw canola out after last years drought
• Phosyn offer to subscribers