Hot agronomy: Locusts - what have we learnt and what can we expect around harvest?

BCG has released a special technical note providing farmers and industry with an update on locust. Key messages in the bulletin include sowing, recording egg be... [more]

Hot agronomy: Controlling mice at sowing

The risk of mice eating seed and germinating seedlings is a potential problem for Wimmera Mallee farmers this sowing season with high mice population numbers ac... [more]

Hot agronomy: Cereal Rust Report - 2010 Season

There have been several recent developments that have improved the understanding of wheat stripe rust pathogen. Colleagues in the USA have published for the fir... [more]

Hot agronomy: 2010 stripe rust risk for wheat

The above average summer and autumn rainfall across Victoria has resulted in widespread growth of volunteer wheat (leaving us with a green bridge). Coupled with... [more]

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Wimmera: Saturday Cloudy. Scattered showers. Winds west to northwesterly averaging 35 to 45 km/h. Full details

Mallee: Saturday Partly cloudy. Isolated showers. Winds northwesterly averaging 30 to 45 km/h.
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Sensing success: the latest in crop management

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PA crop walks at Birchip and Nyah West

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