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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 detailsMallee: Saturday Partly cloudy. Isolated showers. Winds northwesterly averaging 30 to 45 km/h.
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Sensing success: the latest in crop management
BCG is hosting a Soil 2 Grain workshop in Rupanyup on Tuesday 3 August exploring the latest results, techniques and guidelines on canopy and disease management in cereal and canola crops....[More]
Managing pest problems on farms
Insect pests represent a significant challenge to grain production in the Wimmera Mallee. To help fa...[More]
BCG Women's Agronomy Group tackles hay, locusts and bugs!
Hay verses grain, nitrogen strategies, farm bio-security and locusts will all be discussed at the up...[More]
PA crop walks at Birchip and Nyah West
BCG in collaboration with SPAA is running two precision agriculture crops walks on Thursday 19 Augus...[More]
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