TelesnaAg
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- Location
- Portland, Victoria - Australia
Any body.....help....
Ant...
I'm currently trying to track down a mate I went travelling around Oz with, Donald McMurrich. He is an agronomist with Ag Central Grain Systems & is researching irrigated cereals as break crops for cotton growers using higher levels of inputs to make the most of the sun & unlimited water. He would be able to give some tips on a suitable disease management programme. Unfortunately Google runs out of news articles for him after 2007.
What are you paying to buy that land?Brisel, thanks for your response, I will post tomorrow what an expert agronomist from here recommended...the bit by the fence is lower where the it went down but so is the opposite end of the stuff standing...probably worst..soil is similar the whole way through except for the ridge."
For next year I now seriously have to consider sowing beans n my new lease block as well, as it will help break the disease from the grass cycle....I will see what my trial yields to see if it's feasabile.....I can grow wheat but it's going to take a tonne of spray...I would need 1.5 tonne beans to the acre to make it worth it....not what I was planning as i prefer to have a mix of crops...beans will go in next year where the wheat is now...
I won't try second wheat again...probably beans or spring barley and Lucerne...
As much as all this is and as much money as I have spent it is interesting and looking promising....
Ant....
DONALD!!!
Last heard of @ 'Felton Produce', Queensland. Heres his phone number: 0427958209
If you find him, tell him his old flat mate (his 3rd year @ SAC) says hello Oh the stories I could tell you! (but I can't, cos he'd dish it back).
What are you paying to buy that land?
oats is the best bet at that ph.
I paid $4,000 AUS for my block but its close to town and coast and on highway - etc... so that's $2,176 pound. Foot deep volcanic loam soil...
My lease block is $100 acre AUS...per year...same deal 7 km from my block..highway frontage...great fencing and yards for cattle in the future..3 year lease with option of 3...thats 54 pound per acre per year..38-40" rainfall country.
And i am 17 km from Portland Port so can get port pricing if delivered or sell to dairy trade , feed mills etc...
I live in town next to coast...so its not all bad!!