Agronomic Acumen - Professional Agricultural Consultants based in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia

PHOTO GALLERY

Below are some photo's of some warm season crops in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. This is something we thought was not possible in our region due to the hot, dry summers, and poor soils. However, Professor Dwayne Beck thought we could, should, and must grow warm season crops to be sustainable. We are now absolutely convinced he is right and these photo's show that our early attempts are very encouraging.

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Click HERE for the amazing results of a Sorghum Trial sown in January 2001.

	Professor Dwayne Beck in corn, March 2000, Kendenup, WA.		Grain sorghum at Mark Adam's, South Stirlings, WA, March 2000. Only 4kg/ha N too!!!!
	Another variety of grain sorghum at Mark Adam's, South Stirlings, WA, March 2000.		Corn rows, Feb 2000, Kendenup, WA.
	Side on view of corn at Kendenup, WA, Feb 2000.		Garry Hine in his French White Millet, Wellstead, WA, March 2000. He looks happy about it!
	Grain sorghum with poor agronomy (no row spacings) at Goomalling, WA, Feb 2000. An encouraging result for the first attempt though.		Forage sorghum near salt scalds. This using water when winter grasses are not (dead). Katanning, Feb 2000. This is better than lucerne to me for water use and production
	Sunflowers at Wellstead, Jan 2000.		Close up of 4 month old forage sorghum with a few lucerne plants that are several years old. Which species is using the most water and producing the most biomass? This is why I see forage sorghum as a better option than lucerne.

	Forage sorghum "coppicing" at Pingrup, WA, Feb 2000. I think this could be better than lucerne for water use and livestock feeding. This sorghum was seeded in October 1998 and re-grew in the Spring of 1999. You will see some miserable sunflower plants that were seeded in October 1999, but the forage sorghum (which was dormant during the winter), out competed the sunflowers - no fertiliser was used and the site is quite sandy.