Mark Schilling 0408859308 gets stuff over from the states from Needleham ag
13 years no-till with modified JD disc. Opti-crop principles. Follow Phil Needleham's (international no-till guru based USA) work & regularly update/improve their seeding system. Sow wheat on 6" & canola on 12". Grow wheat, wheat, canola. Boxer gold early post-emergent on first yr wheat & Sakura PSPE 2nd year wheat. Trifuralin a waste of time - high resistance. single rate flufol at sowing, opus gs.31 & either a tebucinazole or a stroby at gs.39. 100% ground cover at sowing because use stripper header front.
Group b resistant mustard in CL canola. Now moving to hybrid TT 559. Yields generally 2-2.5 ton/ha. Craig - 80% yield in cabbage. Sow 2 kg/ha. Beans yield 3.5-4.5 tons. Need well structured soils like clays. Paddock has nearly finished flowering, drying out. Podding only 40cm on main stem. used edge, seen some crop effect PSPE with heavy rain - may not use next year.
Wheat 4 ton plus. Grow a lot of Mace & mace on mace. Mace paddock by sheds dry sown18 April, rain 22nd. frost risk is zero. 420 kg urea & SOA applied for season. 295 GSR to date. Yellow leaf spot pressure very high. Crop at milky dough. New variety to try is Cobra - looks very flashy.
Soils are neutral to alkaline. land prices $3000/acre
Would like to get a precision planter in the future for hybrid canola & reduce sowing rates to sub kilogram.
SALTER SPRINGS
viable farm 600-800acre continuous cropping enterprise. highly productive country, average 5 ton wheat. Land values $4,000/acre.
Rainfall increases as move away from coast up the ranges. Over the ranges, rainfall drops off again rapidly.
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