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28 Jul 2025
We're Hiring: Agronomist - Join Cropportunity, part of the ConsultAg group, and help shape the future of broadacre farming. Work with great clients, lead on-farm research, and grow your career in a flexible, supportive team.
Apply by Friday, August 22
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Ben Whisson retweeted
24 May 2024
The @GRDCwest winter wheat trial is up and away in Pingelly.
We are investigating the performance of Mowhawk winter wheat & Bannister oats sown in March, April and May.
Good emergence in March and April, May treatments waiting for a drink. Stay tuned for the results!
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Ben Whisson retweeted
31 May 2023
Road tripping to check out our winter wheat trials @GRDCWest @justinefowler51 @BWhisson @JordanneMedlen @MylesPrassa
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Ben Whisson retweeted
25 Apr 2023
Webinar TOMORROW ⏰
"Beating barley grass despite resistance and dormancy challenges"
📆 Wed 26 April, 10 am AWST / 12 pm AEST
With @borgercatherine (@DPIRDWA), @BWhisson (ConsultAg) and WeedSmart's @peterdnewman.
Register ➡️ buff.ly/3ze5ePB
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Ben Whisson retweeted
23 Feb 2023
With limited resources in the bush, this is a problem that needs a solution. #poletopfires @westernpowerwa @MiaDaviesMLA
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Ben Whisson retweeted
9 Feb 2023
A new GRDC publication on barley grass management in southern Australia, by Gurjeet Gill and myself. Resistance, dormancy and successful case studies. @DPIRDbroadacre @GroupMIG @SEPWA_ag @FaceyGroup @WANTFA_farming #LIFT @BWhisson @joyce_brad @GRDCWest
grdc.com.au/resources-and-pu…
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Ben Whisson retweeted
5 Apr 2022
A great day for sowing @GRDCWest Winter Wheat trials. Warradarge, Cunderdin and Gairdner trials all going in this week. This 1 of 4 trials looking at variety x sowing rate. Thanks @adam_whisson for your help - more time calibrating than sowing.
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Ben Whisson retweeted
5 Apr 2022
Good subsoil moisture & with the weekend’s rain it has provided excellent conditions for the @GRDC Winter Wheat Agronomy Project - longer spring lines also included. Nice to see #ValiantCLPlus sown within this window & will monitor closely #ClearfieldPlus @adam_whisson @BWhisson
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27 Jul 2021
A great slide from Julia Schortinghuis at the GenAg Kulin conference. Action➡️Motivation➡️More motivation. Most people think Motivation comes first.
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Ben Whisson retweeted
13 Apr 2021
Just a reminder that some bugs are harder to kill than others, particularly pre sowing canola so make sure you have the right product on board. Bryobia mite and balaustium mite have hatched and may be a problem.
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Ben Whisson retweeted
8 Apr 2021
Reported blockage problems with propyzamide already. In the haste of sowing canola B4 the weekend, a gentle reminder to slow down when mixing and review your choice of filter. As booms get wider the amount of product getting pushed through the filter can cause problems by itself
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Ben Whisson retweeted
4 Sep 2020
We were searching high and low for RWA in a paddock yesterday north of Esperance. @kingyin_lui finally found some and this video shows just how subtle symptoms can be 🧐 @DPIRDbroadacre
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Ben Whisson retweeted
17 Jun 2020
Our extensive soil testing of freshly reefinated gravels show surprisingly good soil pH and low soil Al levels. Is it a symptom of extensive liming or poor production history not acidifying the soil? For reference 15% Exc. Al % is non-limiting @GRDCWest
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Ben Whisson retweeted
28 May 2020
As part of our research program we try to accommodate the timing of the host farmer. Sometimes in less than ideal conditions. Check out the modifications required on our trial sprayer yesterday to aid in drift management! Our agronomists can be just as inventive as our clients 🙈
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Ben Whisson retweeted
23 Apr 2020
Moving office (or a house) is always a challenge. We just need to figure out where to hang the sign! Feel free to drop in for a cuppa after seeding. Catch you at 19 Lyall St. South Perth. @ConsultAg @MarketAg_WA
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Ben Whisson retweeted
16 Apr 2020
The Kulin and Narrogin team have finished making dust soil sampling for their GRDC trial looking at optimising nutrition on freshly reefinated soils.
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Ben Whisson retweeted
29 Oct 2019
Up to date list of herbicides and rates / ha to test for herbicide resistance in wild radish. 18 herbicides tested all together. Several new products. $200 / seed sample submitted to @resistance_test @UWAresearch
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Ben Whisson retweeted
29 Oct 2019
WA growers Derek & Rhonda Young have saved a stack of money with an optical sprayer for summer weed control & have also been testing weeds for herbicide resistance. Their latest move has been to purchase a iHSD - buff.ly/36cbpnC via @theGRDC
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Ben Whisson retweeted
28 Oct 2019
A short update on a barley grass trial at Lake Grace. Stay tuned!
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