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INDEX FOR 2004 NEWSLETTERS
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December 2004 No. 114
- 2004 in review, and 2005 rainfall outlook
- Stripe rust in summer - how can it be a problem without a green-bridge?
- GBA wheat varieties - are they worth growing?
- Wheat varieties I do recommend
- The best two wheat varieties are?
- Barley variety update - what variety should you grow?
- Canola variety update
- Oat variety update
- Kaspa peas performance
- Seed dressings - what should you pickle your seed with?
- Locust control with Regent (Fipronil)
- Newsletter changes coming - this is the last time newsletters will be emailed. From February 2005, they will be on our website for you to download.
November 2004 No. 113
- Dry finish has a silver lining
- Earwigs, locusts and ants - the best way to control them
- Rhizoctonia - it is not a problem if you treat the cause and not the symptom
- Anthracnose rating problem - how the disease tolerance rating on lupins can be misleading
- Mandelup lupins in the high rainfall areas
- Kaspa peas - a revolution to the pea industry, and rotations
- Rust strategies for next year - easy choices
- Blackleg on canola - what worked best
- New canola varieties - some fantastic new varieties worth getting hold of
- Potassium and disease susceptibility - there is an important link for some diseases
- Barley mildew - observations on how to control the triazole resistant mildew
- Baudin barley and smut control
- Snails and slugs in WA - snails are increasing as a problem
- Wintaroo - a new hay oat that also has low lignin grain that is excellent for livestock
- Lime calculator
October 2004 No. 112
- Stem frost - record frost cause major losses, but sometimes there is hope….
- Rainfall outlook
- Varieties for next year
- Wheat
- Barley
- Canola
- Lupins
- Peas
Manganese deficiency - late applications in cereals can still be very beneficial
Crop-dividers - simple ones will do
Sprayline rates and brews - rates and mixes of chemicals to use for spraying underneath your swather
Rotations - suggestions, including how to use metribuzin tolerant wheat
Controlling fleabane
My digital camera - my thoughts on the Fuji 7000S
Aphids in canola - and close up photos of their predators
USA study tour report - by Bill Crabtree
September 2004 No. 111
- Stripe rust situation - becoming very widespread
- Rates and timings of fungicides for Stripe rust
- Metribuzin results from post-emergent sprays
- includes results on a metribuzin tolerant wheat (EGA Eagle Rock)
- Sprayline on your swather - essential
- Diamond Back Moth sprays - add salt
- Widespread copper deficiency - how to know and what to do
- Fusarium Head Blight (Scab) - it is now here and what to do
- Scab infected seed - showing what happens if you use it
- The Green Bridge and stripe rust - it does not appear to need one
August 2004 No. 110
- Stripe rust here already - what to do
- Stem rust risk high this Spring
- Other cereal leaf diseases and the best control options
- Strobilurin fungicides "other" effects
- Disease control in canola - update on Downey mildew and blackleg control options
- Aphid situation and what to do
- New fungicides. Are they worth it? - Discussing Amistar Xtra and Tilt Xtra.
- Oats aint oats - more information on other oat varieties and their lignin content and value in stock feeds
- Locust threats this Spring - what are the best control options?
- Chemical shortages - what are the options now?
- Supercharge and Achieve - it matters.
- Crop effects using Decision and Achieve herbicides - how to minimize the damage.
- Late radish control options
- Claying soils in the Great Southern region.
July 2004 No. 109
- Slugs and snail problems - what to do
- Stubby canola has a weakness - Diflufenican and Picolinafen susceptibility
- Resistant mildew - and what to do
- Spot Type Net Blotch in barley - a new fungicide that is better for this disease
- Hay growers - a new product to take your production to the next step up
- Blackleg on canola - can you do anything post-emergent?
- General fungicide strategies and recommendations
- Timerite wasn't - many failures of this system in 2003
- Trojan insecticide
- Aramo and Fusion caution on canola
- UK trip - my thoughts of a recent visit
- Oats ain't Oats -
article by Alan Peggs showing huge differences in livestock production with different varieties of oats.
- Gessner-Walker residue manager - updated photos of the equipment and results in the paddock.
June 2004 No. 108
- Season rainfall outlook
- Burning stubble and erosion - includes comments on Gessner and K-Hart/Yetter residue managers
- Molybdenum compatibility
- No OnDuty herbicide available - what to do now?
- Raptor permitted for use on faba beans now
- Getting wheat out of barley
- Getting barley out of wheat
- Post-emergent grass control options in cereals
- Post-emergent broadleaf control options in cereals
- Aphid control
- Rust update
- Tyre update - Did 133,000km on them
- Digital camera update - Fuji 5000S an excellent option
- GMO canola - a no decision has its consequences
- $460 million loss/year - Bill Crabtree's article on his thoughts about banning GMO canola in Australia
May 2004 No. 107
- Season rainfall outlook
- Double-knock strategy - Roundup first, then Sprayseed.
- Haircut sprays - how to use Gramoxone or Sprayseed as the cereal crop is emerging.
- Knockdowns and problem weeds - how to control
marshmallows, Geranium (erodium), Radish and brassica weeds, wireweed, double-gees, and capeweeds.
- Pasture production potentials - big article on pasture production, stocking rate capacity etc…
- Sprayseed or Gramoxone for your knockdown herbicide? - Gramoxone is cheaper in some cases.
- Imidazolinone residue problems - what to do
- Closest lime is not usually the cheapest - actual examples of where is cheapest
- Talstar (Bifenthrin) is better than Timerite
- Points in brief
- Add ammonium sulphate with glyphosate and grass selective herbicides
- Li-700 an excellent water conditioner, wetter and penetrant
- EGA 2248 (aka Lazarus) is not for early sowing - a quick maturing variety
- Pickle seed with high water volume
- Do not skimp on knockdown herbicides
- Bryobia and Balaustium mite control updates
- Supa-Link - keep a drum on your spray vehicle for un-blocking gelled mixes.
Excellent field day in England to go to - www.cerealsevent.org.uk
April 2004 No. 106
- Season rainfall outlook
- Spaces available on the USA study tour - see www.no-till.com.au/studytour.html
- Nitrogen on pasture
- Low drift nozzles - air inductions nozzles in particular
- A lesson from Nature about stubble - it is not trash. Everything is food for something else.
- And discussing pro's and con's of Saia oat stubble
Dry sowing tips
Anthracnose resistance in lupins
Row spacing - what is reality?
Controlling mites this year - Balaustium, Bryobia, red-legged earth mites etc…
Seed rate summary of the main crops
A new herbicide tolerant wheat - metribuzin tolerant
Points in brief -
fungicide for blackleg control in canola, Triflur-X, making glyphosate more rainfast, Ammonium sulphate and Li-700, testing grain for nutrient levels not worth it, fungicides for mildew control in lupins
March 2004 No. 105
- Canola and the new blackleg strains - what to do, how bad is it?
- Rainfall outlook for 2004
- Kaspa peas - an historical turning point for pea production in Australia
- Variety update and recommendations - wheat, barley, lupins, canola and peas
- Oat hay production with fungicides
- Pasture production - start on the big things first, which is not variety or species
- Gaucho insecticide available for cereals now as well as canola
- Yield (trifluralin + oryzalin) drops in price - where to use it
- Logran B-Power vs Logran - there is now a big price difference
- Kerb (propyzamide) in canola
- Using Glean, Ally or Logran in front of IT (Clearfield) canola
- Knockdown herbicide spikes and brews
- Bromegrass control options
February 2004 No. 104
- 2003 harvest results - record smashed by 24% in Western Australia
- EGA 2248 (aka Lazarus) - The best new Soft wheat released and in very short supply
- Frost and nutrition link -
- a good photo showing wheat with good nutrition not being frosted as much as areas with weaker nutrition.
Germination of crop-topped seed - is it OK to sow with seed that was crop-topped?
Thoughts on South Africa - my thoughts after a recent visit to the Cape region of South Africa.
Summary points for No-till - the basics of no-till and good agronomy in point form
Canola blackleg breakdown - resistance has broken down, and what to do now.
Barley and mildew resistance - mildew has become resistant to most fungicides and what to do now.
Seed dressing suggestions for each crop type
Cereal fungicide strategies in 2004
To ponder -
a brief outline of row spacing trial work and to prompt thoughts for a future article on this topic.
Is 1m too wide for wheat?
Variety performance - what varieties to grow this year.
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