Agronomy and farming from the YP to the EP, now settled in the Mallee. Focused on evidence based decision making and next management practices.
Murray Bridge
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Charlie Bensen retweeted
March sown 4540P.
Completely adequate nutrition package, adequate rainfall, zero frost (this is from the top of the hill).
Plant looks terribly sick for starters.
Wish I never looked, id estimate we’ve had 50%+ pod abortion….
At least 1 in 3 plants looks like this.
Charlie Bensen retweeted
The 2027 SA Crop Sowing Guide is out now. Current winter crop varieties for SA conditions to help plan for next season. Compiled by Astute Ag, sponsored by SAGIT and @theGRDC.
Download now: bit.ly/4Buuhgx
#GrainsResearch #CropVarieties #SouthAustralia
Charlie Bensen retweeted
After Thursday’s @WeedSmartAU webinar with @DMAg_consultant, I’ve got the following poll for you.
If you had Green-on-Green tech, what is the main weed you’d target in Lentils?
If your answer isn’t below, please add it in the comments.
Re-tweets appreciated! 🙏
33%Wild Radish
10%Volunteer Canola
46%Tares
11%3 Corner Jack
131 votes • Final results
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Lots of talk on barley varieties and quality. Here’s maximus, reaper and neo in order. This site extremely hard finish, 145mm ytd. Grain quality analysis will be interesting. Trial with @HartBrosSeeds 👌 #aggrowagronomy
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Something has clearly changed around Romania’s Black Sea coast.
YARA J, a chemical tanker, was hit inside Romanian territorial waters.
WINE TRADER, another chemical tanker sailing Sfax–Sulina in ballast, was hit just outside the 12-mile limit.
And LADY JASMIN, a dry bulk vessel waiting to enter the Danube, was reportedly hit just 5 miles off Romania - again, inside territorial waters.
Until this week, attacks on merchant vessels had stayed outside Romanian waters.
That line has now been crossed.
What does this mean for Black Sea #grain exports and global #wheat prices? We’re tracking it closely for clients:
sizov.report/?utm_source=twi…
#blacksea #grain #oatt #sizovreport
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Great to catch up with the Australian Ambassador to China, Scott Dewar, and the State Opera Company of South Australia.
They’ve just delivered a brilliant performance of Mozart’s "The Magic Flute" at the China National Opera.
All of Adelaide should be proud of them.
Charlie Bensen retweeted
If you start notice some glyphosate resistance in ARG would you:
-still use glyphosate at robust rates + spike,
-switch to Paraquat (new low rates) + spike or
-diversify to glufosinate + spike for knock-down? A trial comparing 33 different spike strategies. Easy poll 👇
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Never picked ear corn before in our lives. Until today. Grayce and I got this New Idea picker from a great family in eastern Illinois a few months ago. The previous owners father used to pick with it each Fall back in the 60’s and 70’s. We got to learn a lot about him the day we went to pick it up. We’re proud to get Jerome’s corn picker back in the field and doing what it was made to do.
Grayce’s dad said the last time they picked ear corn on their operation was either 50 or 51 years ago this Fall. What’s old is new again. Maybe we’ll drag it up to Rantoul next summer. It ran like a sewing machine all evening
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Wow so great full for this program and what I have learned. Thanks to the @BelindaCay for being my mentor with the facilitators Toni and Jeanette with WoTL for bringing the program and @MRLandscapeSA for supporting me in this journey. Thanks so much. 🙌
Congratulations @KMatthewson_22 aka Kylie Matthewson our Member and Project Support person for our #Mallee farmers.
She has currently finished her course with WoTL stepping into leadership course.
📖 her experience here 👉 murraybridge.news/kylie-matt…
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Another merchant vessel has been sunk in the Black Sea.
The Royad Mammadov, carrying grain from Ukraine’s Izmail to Ravenna, Italy, caught fire and sank after being struck by a drone on Oct. 5.
Two crew members were killed, 11 rescued.
The vessel was Turkish-operated and went down in Romania’s EEZ, about 30 nautical miles south of Sfântu Gheorghe.
This is what the Black Sea #grain risk looks like now.
What does this mean for regional grain exports and #wheat prices?
Our view:
sizov.report/31382/?utm_sour…
#Ukraine #blacksea #oatt
Only 16% of businesses were imposing card surcharges to their customers and the maximum fee a bank can charge to small businesses drops from 0.8% to 0.3% of the transaction. This is a win for small business. Don't get sucked in by the biased mainstream media.
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Podding at our #TuYV resistance trial. At this late stage, typical symptoms diminish/disappear, and TuYV can be difficult to see: stunted plants with fewer, smaller pods. The good news is varietal resistance appears to alleviate this. Yield data soon! @theGRDC @DPIRDbroadacre
Charlie Bensen retweeted
@SAGrainTrust GIA Metro system trials😁 - great weed control with 1 shot of metribuzin.
Looking at weed control and economics of whole system when we can rotate out of growing an IMI cereal next year.
Out at Lameroo with the king of lentils himself @JasonBrand – at Lameroo, South Australia
Charlie Bensen retweeted
Here's why it's easier to be sustainable/regenerative if you only raise livestock: the exports of nutrients are much lower.
And this doesn't show N or C.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Charlie Bensen retweeted
2.1 t/ha lime applied (red zone) in 2023 showing up in vetch NDVI 2026. Most of the area not limed pH>6
