PROTECTION PROJECT: Lucerne Australia chairman Josh Rasheed with NSW DPI researcher Ainsley Seago, who has just completed a project aiming to find ways to reduce the impact of lucerne seed wasp. By Catherine Miller, The Stock Journal, 31st August 2019 Lucerne seed wasp is an economic threat to the industry, […]
Seed Wasp project covered by the Stock Journal. Read More »
Almost 40 members attended the session which released the first year of data from the Variety Trial. LA executives, Simon Allen and Scott Hutchings gave an overview of the trial and in particular the water management. Nic Amos from Kalyx presented the data for the seed and herbage yields. Dr
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LA executive committee members hosted a visit from the AgriFutures Pasture Seeds Advisory Panel on 10th July. The panel were interested see first hand the progress of the AgriFutures Funded Variety Trial near Keith and toured the PGG Wrightson facility where they learned about the seed cleaning process. LA thanks
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Jessamy Bennett and Rebekah Allen From Kalyx.
Variety Trial Update : Another herbage cut taken on June 14th. Read More »
Seed Production Results
Year 1 – Seed Production Results Read More »
Great day at the Variety Trial Field Day near Keith – 27th Feb. Almost 60 people attended to see how well the crop looks. After, speakers covered more stats from the trial, water unbundling, the area sown to certified seed this year and the latest satellite technology which can make
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Over 40 people attended the “Bale hay in 7 days with stem moisture not dew” workshop at Brecon, just south of Keith on Friday 9th November. Representatives from Feedworks, Gazeeka, and Palmer Ag along with Scott Campbell, owner of Brecon explained how making hay can be much faster and produce
Hay Making Workshop draws great interest Read More »
First Herbage cut 30.10.18
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Kaylx staff, Rebekah Allen, Jessamy Bennett and Matt Reeves inspected the trial plots on Wednesday 17th October with landowner Simon Allen who reports: Lucerne is looking fresh after recent rainfall and we have rolled the trial on the back of 6mm last Wednesday. All channel work is complete and ready
LA Variety Trial looking good Read More »
Aaron Freeman from Colebatch has recently completed the Rabobank Farm Managers Program course held in the Barossa. The week long course, designed to strengthen the operational and strategic skills of farm managers, covered topics such as managing people through leadership, managing time and increasing efficiencies, economic influences on business, insights
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