Plenty of interest in the Lucerne variety Pasture Trial Network & @DLFSeedsAU walk this arvo at Eugowra. Will be great to see these locally produced results published in 3 years time

Finishing the last of the quality samples from the Cabonne Pasture Competition, ready to send to lab today. @lawbal44 your two here, ground up, hard to pick the Fescue from the lucerne

Cowra Acid Soils @NSWDPI_Pastures research update & bus tour to Toogong @lawbal44 to see first hand the pasture responses to lime treatments, see you this Friday

Crutching &vaccinating adult ewes today. Electronic vaccinator has a counter. 246 doses (with a few still in the tube) from the first 250 does packet. I'll take that for the win👍

Phalaris is growing today at 450m elevation near Cudal. Sheep only moved from this pdk last week. Sun shining soil moisture soil fertility = pasture growth. The formulae that drives economic growth in regional NSW.

@theGRDC Canola establishment field walk tomorrow at Canowindra. Time: 10am Location: Woodlands (refer to flyer) Rainout shelters have provided some great insights into dry sowing and the critical moist% required for establishment. Hope to see you there. @CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY

Sarah Strachan @meatlivestock showing the audience at Blayney the big herd rebuild in US and Brazil influencing demand for Aus beef @beefcentral

Using shelters & irrigation to adjust seedbed moisture & to ensure dry conditions post sowing. Questions are: what’s the critical moist % to establish canola, & can seed be placed deeper if surface too dry? Really looking foward to these @theGRDC results👍@CSIRO @NSW_AGRONOMY

Live this local hall, so well kept and beautiful respect to those who sacrificed

Hugh Hogan, MC for the AGBT forum this morning at the ANFD site, doing a great job delving into Andrew & ⁦@gundamaincattle⁩ feedlot & farming business ⁦@beefcentral⁩ ⁦@thelandnews⁩ ⁦@ABCRural⁩ ⁦⁦@RDAcentralwest⁩

Excellent morning for establishment counts at the acid soil research site Toogong. 7 pH profiles sown to either Lucerne chicory or tall fescue mixes with serradella and gland clover @meatlivestock @PhilCranney @rickchayes @DrJasonCondon

Great crowd @ 2024 Agribusiness Today Forum listening to Hamish Gidley-Baird ⁦@RaboFoodAgri⁩ ⁦@nswdpi⁩ ⁦@NSWDPI_Pastures⁩ looking forward to hearing from all the research speakers ⁦@MattNewell_⁩ ⁦⁦@rickchayes⁩ ⁦@WarwickBadgery⁩

Col McMaster showing the ⁦@theGRDC⁩ National canola establishment team the trials near Canowindra - all things seeding/establishment. Off to Condo next. Depth, seed size, press wheels, fertiliser, soil water at sowing, disc vs Tyne. Great data from NSW red acidic loams.

Wishlist workshop, love the labelled tubs. No supplements needed, this excites me!

Great point Matt, as each year passes that we don’t look at replacement for P & N in grain off-take, we limit future profits (cost is simply deferred). This can happen quickly or more slowing depending on the initial starting P & N bank from organic and inorganic sources. To recover from net mining of these nutrients it will requires (i) the addition of annual P & N that matches off-take in grain plus (ii) a surplus amount of P & N to establish a soil fertility baseline that doesn’t limit yield in the years of decile 7 or greater rainfall. Noting that these are the big profit years. Maintaining the natural capacity of soils which includes nutrients, is a focus for #RiskWise @theGRDC in N-NSW and QLD with @gentry_jayne @dr_dirt_oz @andrewErbacher and @HenryBasker.

With permission, sharing a mates pics on a farm he just bought. First crop after previous owner had 60 years of no fert and running livestock. Below and right are where fert on airseeder stopped. Dramatic demonstration of the importance of fertiliser on our soils productivity.