Faba Bean Breeder and PhD Candidate at The University of Adelaide. Views are my own.
Joined June 2020
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Sam Catt retweeted
19 Sep 2024
Talk about resilience! 🫛Faba beans that copped a battering from hail a few weeks ago have managed to not only keep flowering but also start podding despite the broken branches 💪🏽 @SouthernFS #fababeans #haildamage #flowering
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Sam Catt retweeted
23 Aug 2024
The faba bean aphid season has officially started. FBAs have been found on fabas in NSW and Vic, with colonies in patches. Regularly monitor your crop, they can spread rapidly with the wind.
More info
grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pd…
@NSW_AGRONOMY @theGRDC @cesaraustralia @PestFactsSARDI
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💻 NEW RESOURCE
The new Grain Legume Extension Hub website provides info on pulse research incl trial sites, upcoming events & field days.
Hub ▶️ spahub.com.au
More ▶️ bit.ly/4fn7R5t
@Moodie_ag @jasonbrand @VicGovAg
#GroundCoverOnline #Pulses #Research
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Consultant Kirrily Condon @grassrootsag told growers & agronomists at a GRDC–Brill Ag faba bean workshop that in the past 2yrs their clients in low-medium rainfall areas had only applied one fungicide spray to faba beans each year.
Find out how
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bit.ly/4c6QMu3
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Are faba beans being underestimated?
Rising interest in the potential farming system benefits of faba beans saw 75 growers and agronomists attracted to a focus session at Ganmain in southern NSW in March.
More ▶️ bit.ly/4cC30M4
📷 Nicole Baxter #GroundCoverOnline
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GROWER STORY 🌾🌾
Stephen Cooper and his family bought a half share in a deep tillage machine to drive lime into an acid subsurface soil layer and improve their faba bean production.
Read more: bit.ly/4cxlFsD
📷 Nicole Baxter/GRDC
#GroundCoverOnline #GrowerStory
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Sam Catt retweeted
3 Jun 2024
The @nswdpi "Managing diseases of faba bean" guide is out NOW...
Includes:
🦠Major diseases overview.
📸Great photos as a reference.
👩🌾Management tips.
LINK⬇️
dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets…
@theGRDC @GRDCNorth @vanleurj @Mark_RichardsAG @s_simpfendorfer
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Sam Catt retweeted
14 May 2024
Pulse trials at Kiata just starting to appear… Acid Sandy vs Alkaline cracking clay in same paddock. Looking at different varieties of lentils, peas, beans, vetch, and lupins.. nutrition and inoculation as well…some rain please🤪 @SC_Catt @Moodie_ag
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Sam Catt retweeted
11 Apr 2024
We're sorry Wimmera farmers... we know you hate filling out surveys & we hate asking you to do them BUT the info we get is super helpful in working out how we can grow better beans. Just ask @JasonBrand - if you've got 5 mins, we'd love your input
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bit.ly/48PN9XO
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Sam Catt retweeted
12 Mar 2024
Attention Wimmera farmers
Is faba bean yield instability a problem for you? You can help by completing this five minute survey so we can better understand the barriers to growing consistently high-yielding faba bean crops in the Wimmera.
surveymonkey.com/r/fababeans
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Sam Catt retweeted
20 Feb 2024
Are you looking to improve the performance of your faba beans?
Join leading Wimmera agronomists for 3 new discussion groups in Woorak, Douglas and Bungalally starting late Feb
@zordsinhorsh @matthew_sparke @JasonBrand @Moodie_ag
👉 Register bit.ly/48oWB46
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Sam Catt retweeted
16 Jan 2024
The @theGRDC NVT 2023 long term yield results for Faba Bean North have been released! Visit app.nvt.grdc.com.au/lty/tabl… to see how varieties performed across different locations.
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Sam Catt retweeted
6 Oct 2023
What’s next for faba bean varieties? Interested in seeing what varieties are coming through and what might be next after PBA Amberley? For an update come to AgriFocus on the 18th to hear @SC_Catt chat all things variety in faba beans! @SouthernFS
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Sam Catt retweeted
1 Oct 2023
Canola on right after fabas and on left after wheat - crop on right coming home with wind in the sails on extra water and N. Effects on yield, costs, inputs, profit, weeds, disease, all important to track over the years in the @GRDC @NSWDPI @CSIRO Farming Systems Project
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Sam Catt retweeted
19 Sep 2023
Grain Producers SA has issued a please explain to both the federal and state governments in the wake of the apparent pulling of funding for a $378 plant protein project.
stockjournal.com.au/story/83…
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Sam Catt retweeted
27 Jul 2023
Cercospora leaf spot on faba bean crops around Bordertown (SA & Vic) has been reported. @CropWatchSA
Soil borne disease, more common in paddocks with long term bean cropping & promoted by rain (eg. June rainfall).
React where necessary.
Thanks to @buckets4444 for photo
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Sam Catt retweeted
14 Jul 2023
It’s that time of year when some varieties are just starting to bud. Our time of sowing x variety trials takes a look at the phenology of faba beans through flowering and podding 🫛😎 #fababean #phenology #southwestvictoria
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GRDC Video 🎬
Join us in the hunt to determine how soilborne pathogens result in disease and affect crop health in both cereals and pulses.
Watch the video: bit.ly/3JHKiq8
#GRDCVideo @SAGrainTrust @SA_PIRSA
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Sam Catt retweeted
10 Jul 2023
Some #AscochytaBlight symptoms starting to show on these inoculated pots of faba bean. Few more weeks to go until rating... @AgrifoodUoA @SC_Catt @GRDC_NVT
20 Jun 2023
Perfect cool conditions for #AscochytaBlight inoculations on #fababean. @GRDC_NVT & testing recently collected isolates from SA & Vic for @SC_Catt @AgrifoodUoA breeding program. How do our resistant varieities hold up? We'll find out in 6 weeks!
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Sam Catt retweeted
30 Jun 2023
Faba Bean breeding and agronomy trials looking great at Gerang!! The N factory has started.. Bit variable establishment with dryish sowing - Flowering not too far away with early lines @SC_Catt @trialsofJManson @theGRDC
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