Check out the latest updates from the FEED365 Project including early results from the Gillingarra site investigating over sowing perennial grasses and the Warradarge site exploring cereal livestock pasture systems.
Category Archives: Technical Article
Utilising effective stubble management to hold soil moisture in increasing dry seasons
Explore how stubble management strategies like stubble retention, mulching, and shallow incorporation can enhance soil moisture and increase groundcover in increasingly variable and dryer seasons.
Legumes in agricultural systems: A background
Learn all about legumes and their role in agricultural systems in the first of a series of researched and collated articles being produced as part of the Grain Legumes Project.
Early Post Emergent Deep Ripping: An option for 2024?
With the lack of significant rainfall over Summer and Autumn, farmers may be considering early post emergent deep ripping in 2024. WMG investigated early post-emergent ripping for grain yield benefit across the Wheatbelt in 2021 and share the key learnings in this article.
Potassium Cycling, Availability and Crop Productivity
Explore the essential role of potassium in plant health and crop productivity. Understand the K cycle, the impact of deep-rooted plants on nutrient availability, and the need for further research on subsoil potassium uptake, with insights specific to the West Midlands region.
Wathingarra Future Carbon Project – 2023 Season Report
Explore the key findings and results of the Future Carbon Project stacked soil amelioration and novel amendment trial for 2023 in this in-depth technical article.
Exploring Effective Herbicide Packages for Lupin, Chickpea & Vetch
Explore the key findings and results of the Grain Legumes Project herbicide trial in 2023 in this in-depth technical article.
Stubble Management Project – 2023 Seasonal Update
No significant differences in biomass production or crop yield were recorded across stubble management treatments in the 2023 season of the Stubble Management Project. Learn more about the 2023 results and 2024 season in this technical project update.
Increasing the profitability of double break crop rotations using a high value legume in the Wheatbelt of WA
This study investigated the profitability of growing canola (with effective weed control options) followed by a high value legume (with higher economic value) as an effective and profitable double break crop sequence.
Examining variance in crop production levels through soil test comparisons
Interpretation of soil lab data and graphical results of a combined Warrradarge paddock (previously 2 paddocks) showing potential variances between production levels.