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INDEX FOR 2005 NEWSLETTERS
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December 2005 No. 125
- A new hope. Cheap propyzamide at last.
Edge Expression of Interest Form:
 expression of interest period now closed - Information on what it controls, where to use it, what it is and is not safe on etc
Clartex (Metarex) now registered in Australia and available soon - the world's best snail and slug pellet
30-minute boom clean product now available - decontaminates all chemicals within 30 minutes
Skinny canola stems - not good. Discussion on why and what to do about it.
Lack of rainfall is not the problem (Part 2) - Continuation of last months article, but specifically targeting the idea of waiting for a good season to then purchase more land.
Spraylines on swathers (windrowers) - showing why they are essential in weed management
Kabuli chickpea seed size - comparison of all the new varieties to show which variety should be the most profitable.
Polymer coated fertiliser - a fantastic new technique to have fertiliser and trace elements on every granule in a dust free form.
Swathing Kaspa peas - looks like the right way to prepare them for harvest.
Glyphosate on barley pre-harvest - risk of causing germination problems is minimal.
WA nematode situation - includes which wheat varieties have the best tolerance in Western Australia
2006 talks - Wayne Smith is available to give presentations and group talks in 2006.
In Western Australia, call 08-9842 1267 during office hours to discuss possible dates and contents, and in all other areas of Australia, call RTA-Ag Services on 03-5092 2064.
November 2005 No. 124
- Crop-topping Baudin barley
- Do you need to pickle? - barley, wheat, oats, triticale, canola, lupins
- Stripe rust on wheat heads - how to stop it.
- Seeding fertilisers and correcting trace element deficiencies
- New barley varieties - update
- Lack of rainfall is not the problem - most farmers yield problems are not the lack of rainfall
- Did you get it right - how to know when your crops have performed to their optimum?
- Locust and wingless grasshopper control options
- Canola varieties - whose data is believable?
- Large canola seed - it matters
- Plus keeping your own seed
How accurate were the rainfall outlooks this year? - Dr David Stephens v Meteorological Bureau
More summer weed control options - they will be a big problem this summer
Snippets
Cutting stubble short at harvest time
Spiral of change (re keeping stubble)
Hammer, Affinity and Logran B-Power work best with Glyphosate at temperatures <25C.>
October 2005 No. 123
- Stripe rust - what to do with crops under intense pressure, and how to late is it worth spraying?
- Mandelup lupins and aphids - this variety is more susceptible to aphids and virus than it is meant to be.
- Canola maturity problems - Thunder is earlier than most, when it is meant to be a later maturing variety
- New varieties for 2006
- A new broadleaf herbicide option in lupins?
- Axial herbicide update on compatibilities
- Controlling weeds where crops have bombed out
- Summer weed control brews - Logran BP an option on melons
- Ukraine study tour update
September 2005 No. 122
- Axial - new "DEN" herbicide from Syngenta
- Aphid update
- Eagle Rock (metribuzin tolerant) - Should you kill it if it has Fusarium Head Blight?
- Rainfall outlook
- Double-knock failure - here is one case where Roundup only was better than Roundup followed by Sprayseed four days later.
- Fungicides at ear emergence - is it worth it?
- Northern wheatbelt pastures
- Wodjil soils - my thoughts on what to do with them.
- Brodal (diflufenican) damage on cereals - only if there is a trace element problem. Photos show what to look for.
- Native & Lesser Budworm problems - what to do about them.
- Diamond Back Moth update - costings of some of the better control options.
- Metribuzin problem on Lazarus (EGA 2248 wheat).
- Rust update
- Fertilisers for 2006 - What happens if Urea is $800/t and wheat is $150/t?
- Fungicide ratings on diseases
August 2005 No. 121
- Information on iButton's for recording temperatures in the soil
- Aphid Control Basics - chlorpyrifos is better than dimethoate and omethoate
- How to make sure you have a Diamond Back Moth problem!!!
- Doublegee Pastures and how to fix the problem
- Ally with Tigrex (ie metsulfuron with Brodal + MCPA LVE)
- Wind burnt cereals - a sign of copper deficiency
- Anthracnose Control on Lupins - fungicides are an option
- Rhizoctonia Update
- Spot Type Net Blotch Control in barley
- Rust is very near - and what to do about it
- Triadimefon on the fertiliser is not just for leaf disease control
- Google Earth Site (earth.google.com)
- Bill Crabtree GM Meetings, and Canadian GMO Tour (www.no-till.com.au)
- Newsletter Indexes
July 2005 No. 120
- Notification of Ukraine study tour planned for July/August 2006
- 10-day rain forecast now a 14-day outlook
- Snippets on:
- Sunn Hemp
- Soil acidity
- adding zinc to herbicides
- getting barley out of wheat
- getting silvergrass, barleygrass and wheat out of barley
- Adding ammonium sulphate (AMS) to Monza and Atlantis herbicides
Rust update
Barley mildew control options
Trace element problems and what to look for, and how to test.
What to do on waterlogged paddocks
Growing summer crops
Livestock carrying capacity of forage sorghum
Growing forage sorghum as a perennial
Should you add more nitrogen?
Bill Crabtree's new study tour to see GMO's in the snow (www.no-till.com.au)
June 2005 No. 119
- The three levels of wetness - ducks, swans, pelicans
- The tale of two sides - WA very wet, the rest of Australia very dry
- Dry sown crops and chemicals pre-sowing
- Excessive pasture - a nice problem to have
- Use Tigrex or make your own brew?
- Canola lessons - some seed dressings need to be standard practice
- Resistant radish brews
- Sunn Hemp - Brazilian seed is coming this Spring
- Lack of rain - how important is it to yields? It is not as simple as you think.
- Copper deficiency photos
- The "Spiral of Change" - why stubble on top is the starting point
- Aphids have arrived - what to do about it
- Early fungicide applications - mixtures (brews) and compatibilities
- Why I like the Conserva-Pak seeder (www.conservapak.com)
- Paddocks you cannot drive on - suggested options for paddocks that are currently impassable
- Update on new staff and things about our office
- For sale - latest model Walker triple disc seeding modules
- China study tour invitation from Bill Crabtree (www.no-till.com.au)
- For your contemplation - Hormesis and what it means to various chemicals.
May 2005 No. 118
- Ammonium Sulphate (AMS) mixing order
- Hot-Up vs AMS + wetter
- Fancy coloured Roundup's - are the more expensive glyphosate products worth it?
- Li-700 - when and why you should use it
- Tank mixing order
- Tank blockages - things you can do to salvage a mixing or compatibility problem in the spray tank
- Notes on spray oils and wetters
- Marshmallow (Malva sp.) control update
- Disc seeders are looking up - finally have a solution to prevent hair-pinning and make no-till disc seeders a better option.
- The season so far, and the rainfall outlook
- Late nitrogen applications - this is not the season to apply everything up front
- Mis-information - dispelling the myths and rumours about what we are doing in Western Australia
- Some herbicide strategies
- IT canola
- Using Flame and OnDuty
- Using Fusion, Fusion Super and Aramo - can be very risky on canola
Clearfield (IT) wheat and bromegrass control
China study tour invitation from Bill Crabtree (www.no-till.com.au)
April 2005 No. 117
- Ammonium Sulphate (AMS) with everything? - concerning which chemicals to use it with
- Diuron post-emergent on lupins
- Knockdown weed control - best mixtures to use
- Double-knock - Do we have to use Roundup then Sprayseed to stop Roundup resistance?
- Yield is number one - with budgets looking bad, where to trim costs?
- Rainfall Outlook
- Nematode management
- Bravo TT canola - a new triazine tolerant canola variety
- Canola in the eastern states this season
- Pre-sowing cereal herbicide brews
- Sorrel in pasture - better in a salad than a pasture
- An observation - a comment on low rainfall areas in South Australia and Victoria and summer weeds.
March 2005 No. 116
- Making your own break to the season - you do not always need rain to start seeding, and no it is not about "dry sowing"?.
- Dry sowing - this one is about how to sow dry :-).
- Yitpi and frost - this wheat variety is getting frosted less than other varieties.
- Falling behind….? - are we starting to fall behind our competitors?
- Molybdenum prices rises - three fold and does it change anything?
- Rust risk - strategies for different areas of Australia
- Ca:Mg ratios - is it ever a good year to use Dolomite?
- Resistant ryegrass control options - an in-depth article on how to remove and manage the problem
- When hay is not viable - for the low rainfall growers, how to get two years of 100% weed control, and make money.
- Rising costs - no-till is not the cause. It is a symptom of wrong rotations.
- Shielded spray brews and thoughts
- Why Timerite can fail
- Supply shortages - lots of competition and low profit margins for suppliers has a downside.
- Sowing cereal between last years cereal rows - does it matter to yield?
- Metribuzin in wheat - an update on bromegrass control in wheat
- Atlantis herbicide + Hasten (an oil + wetter adjuvant).
- Eagle Rock - the metribuzin tolerant wheat and suggestions for herbicide strategies
- Clartex pellets and slug update
February 2005 No. 115
- 2004 season summary - 5th biggest harvest on record in Western Australia
- A lesson from dung beetles - it tastes like chocolate (to them) and there is no such thing as waste (trash) in agriculture
- Rainfall outlook for 2005
- Mandalotus weevil - how to control it
- Type-B blackleg in canola - how to control it
- Wide row canola and lupin observations
- Canola variety results
- Lazarus (EGA 2248) soft wheat performance
- Calingiri's status as a variety for noodles
- Blanco's status and performance
- Using Fusarium Head Blight infected seed for sowing
- Barley yield results
- How to control herbicide resistant radish - an in depth article on the options
- Newsletter survey results - now have a high and low resolution version of each newsletter to download
- Coming events
- Gps-Ag discounts to subscribers.
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