#Australian farmers

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Machinery Shed: Leeton Ryan's Golden Ticket Win with Entegra

Leeton Ryan, a farmer from Manangatang, got a surprise bonus when he bought a new machinery shed from Entegra. His purchase automatically entered him into a draw called the Golden Ticket, where he won a Trailmaster Active Pod “Pioneer”. This special trailer is more than just for hauling. Visit our website to read this full blog.

[kg2adam]

Factors Responsible for a High Yield of Canola

A member of the Brassica family, canola is a cash crop grown widely for its oil, including both cooking oil and biofuel. Canola farming is a popular agricultural activity in several parts of the world, with Australia being the third largest exporter. Grown in all states and territories, canola is a vital oilseed crop in Australia. This crop is generally grown in rotation with other crops like wheat, barley, and pulses.

In this blog, we have discussed the

Factors Responsible for High Yield of Canola

1.       Climatic Conditions: A cool-season crop, Australia’s climatic condition is well-suited for canola cultivation. Canola requires a moderate amount of rainfall and well-drained soils that are rich in organic matter. At the same time, canola requires a pH of 5.5 to 7.5 and is sown in autumn, from March to May, and harvested in a sprint from October to December.

 2.       Crop Varieties: Due to the availability of five distinct herbicide tolerance systems and two distinct canola breeding types, variety selection for canola is made more difficult (open-pollinated and hybrid). Each variety fits into farming systems differently.

 3.       Sowing Period: To increase canola yield in Western Australia, early sowing is the solution. In areas with low to moderate rainfall, canola is sown in April; in areas with heavy rainfall, it is sown in April and May. Depending on the area, some degree of frost danger must be tolerated to get maximum yields.

 4.       Sowing Options: Due to the influence of delayed seeding on output and the availability of efficient post-emergence herbicide choices, a large percentage of canola fields are dry-seeded (depending on canola type). Plant emergence and plant density may be affected if furrow fills happens after dry sowing because plants won't be able to arise from too deep. Delaying selection will probably result in a produce penalty unless the season has already broken early. To calculate the amount of the yield penalty brought on by postponed sowing, use the links contained in the sowing window portion.

 5.       Sowing Rate and Depth: Even though lowering seeding rates can reduce costs; you need to ensure that target plant densities are achieved. To ensure yield potential, switching to earlier sowing is becoming more common to grow canola crops in challenging conditions, often with warm temperatures and drying soil.

 6.       Fertiliser: The gross margin of a canola crop may be lowered by excessive input costs or decreased returns, if there’s not enough fertiliser. Compared to other crops, canola has different nutritional requirements. Using some of the many tools (including software packages, mobile and online apps, information products, and professional services), a tailored fertiliser program can be developed. To outline the nitrogen strategy, consider the crop’s potential yield, soil test results, soil type, and rainfall information. To determine post-emergence rates, nitrogen is applied in split applications. It is necessary to check soil phosphorus status for maintenance rates at seeding. At the same time, canola requires more sulphur than wheat but is equally susceptible to micronutrient deficiencies like wheat. Therefore, you need to monitor the crop within the season and conduct tissue tests to identify micronutrient deficiencies. Conducting regular soil and tissue testing is necessary to develop fertiliser programs as per crop demand.

 7.       Weed Control: Western Australia canola varieties have several herbicide tolerance systems. To choose the herbicide tolerance system, consider the weed spectrum and weed resistance status, crop sequence, rainfall zone, and cost.

 8.       Insect Control: Although different insect species can infest canola crops, applying chemical insecticide is not always necessary. Monitoring the crops through the season, allowing response time to potentially damaging infestations is essential. Canola crops can reach damaging levels if it gets infested by turnip aphids, cabbage aphids, and green peach aphids.

 9.       Disease Control: Monitoring canola crops for disease during the growing season is important as it allows time to consider and implement management options. To complement other management strategies, fungicides can be used but cannot be relied on alone. Other options include seed dressing, fertiliser treatment, and foliar fungicides. However, the commercially sold seed comes with fungicide seed dressing. For canola growers, managing the fungal disease blackleg is an essential consideration for which growers need to utilise different strategies to reduce the loss of yield. There are other fungal and viral diseases that impact canola crops including powdery mildew, downy mildew, and more.

 10.   Harvest: For harvesting canola crops, two techniques are popularly used- direct harvesting and swathing. The key difference between swathing and harvesting methods is the cutting and drying time before harvest. While direct harvesting involves cutting and threshing the crop in a single pass with a combine harvester; swathing, on the other hand, involves cutting the crop and laying it in rows to dry for a few days before harvesting.

 Wrapping Up,

Achieving high yields of canola in Australia requires managing various factors carefully that influence crop growth and productivity.

Now that we have discussed the factors that influence the high yield of canola crops in Australia, it will be easy for you as an agribusiness owner to venture into the canola plantation. If you require detailed insights into canola yield crops, contact us at KG2 Australia and we will provide you with personalised assistance.

[peninsulaisms]

country roads, take me home

[myfairynuffstuff]

Peter Farmer (b.1971) - Chirriger. 2010. Oil on canvas.

[drunkeddiediaz]

Godddd Travis Fimmel was sooo hot🫠

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Aussie Farmer just farming .. @malleeboy3490

[oursidae]

i think that clothing manufacturers who use mostly plastic fabrics should kill themselves

[tenth-sentence]

I went online and applied for all manner of jobs: ESL teacher in Morocco, infantry soldier in the Australian Defence Force, pig farm labourer in Armidale delivery driver on the Mornington Peninsula, high school teacher in Katherine, NT.

"In/Out: A Scandalous Story of Falling Into Love and Out of the Church" - Steph Lentz

[sloanevictor]

"I never listen to music now. I hardly ever speak. When I do, the words come out sluggish and rusty, disconcertingly offkey. I strike a false note. I overpunctuate with too eager, too compliant nods and grins, only to lapse into anguished silences. I have already said all I wanted to say, and all to no avail."

-- Alone (1980) by Beverly Farmer (Australian, 1941-2018)

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Entegra's Golden Ticket Surprise: Farm Machinery Shade

Leeton Ryan's surprise bonus entered him into a draw called the Golden Ticket, which is held by Entegra. Where he won a Trailmaster Active Pod “Pioneer”. This Active Pod is equipped with an Australian-made rooftop tent and plenty of space for camping gear, making it perfect for outdoor adventures. Visit the link for further details about Australian agriculture.

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Carbon Farming: A New Market for Australian Farmers

The challenges that climate change and increasing global gas emissions present for farmers in Australia are hard to predict and even harder to get consensus policy decisions on. But with every challenge comes an opportunity, and Australian farmers are well placed to become global leaders in carbon farming. Carbon farming will lead to increased revenue for farmers, with some cases requiring little to no changes to current operating procedures. Despite the confusing rhetoric surrounding the state of carbon emissions trading schemes and carbon farming, when simply put the benefits of conducting carbon farming on agricultural land can be significant for the farmers bottom line, their soil health and the long term sustainability of their business.

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Stuck close to home this Sunday

[whats-in-a-sentence]

He was remembered in The Brisbane Courier as an honourable but persistently unlucky gentleman.

Mr. Uhr had a very eventful career, having met in his time with even more of the "ups and downs" than usually attend the lives of colonists. He was a large squatter when squatting was by no means the easy life that it now is, but when the pastoral farmers of Australia were in reality the pioneers of civilisation, and when it was almost a constant struggle against the aborigines for very existence.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

[youve-always-had-me-cas]

Just like. Driving around roads which aren't even really paved properly looking out at fields, fields, one tiny farmhouse my aunt’s wife knows the whole history of in passing because this is my history somehow too because there's something deep within me gently tugging at my heart saying you are home. You are home.

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March 2015: Prime Minister Tony Abbott surprises onlookers by picking up a raw onion and taking a bite out of it, skin and all, during a press conference in Tasmania

A horrified onlooking farmer later explained to the PM that the offer to try his produce “wasn’t meant as a dare”.

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A petition to stop Rio Tinto’s mine from destroying Serbia’s nature

"We call upon you to prohibit extractive mining projects and metal processing in the Jadar Valley in Serbia.

In particular, we demand that you cancel the proposed Rio Tinto lithium mine in Loznica. We demand that you protect the biodiversity, fertile ground, farming villages and rich cultural areas.

Serbia’s most fertile land can be found in the beautiful Jadar Valley. Small family farmers grow raspberries and plums, engage in beekeeping and sheep and goat herding. The valley borders mountains, is surrounded by water and home to thousands of sustainable multi-generational farms.

But instead of protecting it, the Serbian government has approved a project with multinational mining corporation Rio Tinto, for the exploitation of “Jadarite”, a lithium ore in the valley. The government and the company have ignored scientists and mining experts who advise vehemently against the mine and are threatening to cause irreparable damage to the water, land, air and it’s people. Local citizens, who do not want to give up their sustainable agricultural land which has been in their families for generations, are being ignored.

The process of separating chemically stable lithium from jadarite ore involves the use of concentrated sulfuric acid. The process would take place 20 km from the Drina River and use 300 cubic meters of water every hour, while the chemically treated water would be returned to the Jadar River.

The outpouring of inevitably polluted water, as well as underground waters which contain arsenic, mercury and lead, would contaminate entire river basins and continue their journey across the Jadar to the Drina and Sava, polluting not only Serbia's but other countries' water sources as well.

We reject the pollution of the air. Treatment with the above mentioned (and additional) aggressive acids produces toxic gases that can spread within a radius of over ten kilometers and which will corrode the skin and lungs of humans and animals.

We reject the endangerment of the population around the Jadar Valley in the interests of a multinational corporate profit. Rio Tinto has promised 700 new jobs, but forgot to mention that 19,000 people are set to be displaced or severely effected.

Rio Tinto in 2020, destroyed a 45,000 year old sacred Australian Aboriginal cave. The company and its representatives have been repeatedly convicted of fraud and paid billions of dollars in damages and fines for illegal destruction of land, but continue to ravage and destroy natural environment around the world. The company is accused of participating in war crimes in Papua New Guinea, where a ten-year civil war broke out due to the presence of their mine.

The citizens of Serbia have the right to clean air, clean water and healthy living conditions. Stop Rio Tinto’s lithium mine and protect the people, our heritage, our environment and the rivers of the Jadar Valley. United we can save our environment."

https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2023-03-stop-rio-tinto-EN?akid=s1568260..uAF-ha

The text above explains the situation. This is a very important petition and I'd be very grateful if you could sign it and spread it.

(I see that only people from European countries can sign it, others please reblog for this to reach as many people as possible)