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Technical Bulletin No. 4 26.5.2023
- Sowing is continuing with growers 60 per cent (Wimmera)—100 per cent (Mallee) through their program.
- Crops are needing moisture. Earlier sown crops into moisture growing well later sown crops are still trying to establish.
- Supplementary feeding sheep is ongoing while we wait for crops to be ready to graze.
- Slug management in some areas is ongoing, good results from high rates (20kg/ha) but justifying the economics in these more variable risk areas is difficult.
- Some are considering N decisions in canola and hay oats where crops were sown early.
- Knockdown opportunities have been good.
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Technical Bulletin No. 8 21.7.2023
- Black keeled slugs are still causing many issues where they are found. Particularly if management was compromised due to access issues for spreading bait. No crop type has been safe.
- Blackleg levels in canola are very high in some Wimmera crops due to high pressure and early sowing.
- Powdery mildew in wheat has been reported about two weeks earlier than last year in the Mallee.
- Net form net blotch (NFNB) and Septoria are present in barley and wheat respectively. Fungicide plans are being actioned where risk is greatest.
- In the northern Mallee there has been some crop wilting despite good moisture—suspect compaction is the cause. It is a good time to check and identify areas that can be managed out of season. Other than that, growers are quietly positive about the season.
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Technical Bulletin No 10. 12.8.22
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Technical Bulletin No. 11 – 29.08.25
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- Recent rainfall across the region has provided a welcome boost to yield potential for 2025.
- Growers are finalising winter weed control programs.
- Cereal crops currently range from mid tillering to early stem elongation.
- Reports of stripe rust around Boort and Nullawil
- The BioScout unit installed at the BCG Main Site, Birchip has detected low levels of rust spores (see below).
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Technical Bulletin – 11 July 2018
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BCG Special Technical Bulletin – Windrowing Barley
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Technical Bulletin – 30 October 2019
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