Research
LEADA Expo 2019
Held on Friday 15 March 2018 7.30am start Ungarra Sports Club, Ungarra 7.30am Registration and Breakfast 8.15am Bruce Morgan, Chair, LEADA, Welcome 8.20am Hamish Dickson, AgriPartner Consulting – Sheep nutrition & containment feeding 9.05am Dave Davenport, Rural Solutions SA – Inclusion plates & soil acidity 9.35am George Pedler, George Pedler Ag / LEADA Committee member…
Dryland Legume Pasture Systems – Boosting profit and reducing risk in medium and low rainfall areas
Summary Over the past three decades there has been a shift from integrated crop-livestock production to intensive cropping in dry areas which has significantly reduced the resilience of farms. Intensive cropping is prone to herbicide resistant weeds, large nitrogen fertiliser requirements, and major financial shocks due to frost, drought or low grain prices. A pilot…
LEADA Weed Seed Management Expo 2018
Held on Tuesday 13 March 2018 $50 cost for the day, which includes annual membership to LEADA. 7.30am start Kapinnie Clubrooms, Kapinnie 7.30am Registration and Breakfast 8.00am Bruce Morgan, Chair, LEADA, Welcome 8.05am Greg Condon, Grassroots Agronomy – Using innovative agronomy to smash herbicide resistant weeds 9.00am Andrew Ware and Blake Gontar, SARDI – Lower…
LEADA Summer Cover Crop Species Demonstration
Summary Trial Management: Sown 14th December 2017 with 60kg/ha 18:20 fertiliser Pasture Genetics disc plot seeder Soil dry in the top 5cm and moist from 5-15cm Soil reasonably friable apart from compacted wheel tracks Rows 8 & 9 were sown over controlled traffic wheel tracks, which were quite compacted and had lower moisture levels….
2017 EP Stubbles Extravaganza
Summary Naomi Scholz, SARDI Livestock and Farming Systems, Minnipa Agricultural Centre hosted the Eyre Peninsula ‘Stubbles Extravaganza’ forum for researchers and advisors on 9 November 2017 in Port Lincoln on behalf of EPARF and LEADA. Speakers Naomi Scholz (GRDC Stubble Initiative) Rick Llewellyn (weeds) CSIRO Greg Baker (snails) SARDI Gupta Vadakattu (nitrogen) CSIRO Jack…
Profitable farming systems with retained stubble on Lower EP
Summary The project ‘Profitable farming systems with retained stubble on Lower Eyre Peninsula’ (South Australia) aims to create a development and extension program through this project that will assist lower Eyre Peninsula growers and advisors to best manage stubble retention within their farming systems. This project will create options to manage the constraints of retaining…
LEADA Spring Walk 2017
Held on 8th September 2017 10.30am Meet at the: Cummins Oval Meet and arrange bus travel 11.10am Andrew Green – Wanilla Liz Farquharson, SARDI Profitable Beans on highly acidic off-type soils.Exploring new acid tolerant inoculants and how they can give us access to profitable legumes on soils down to a pH of 4. 12.30pm LUNCH…
Copper Management for the future
Summary The project ‘Copper management for the future’ aims to explore different management strategies to overcome copper deficiency in cereals. The project will compare the effectiveness of copper sulphate and copper chelate applied either as liquids banded at seeding or as a foliar spray. The project will also evaluate the effect of different timings of…
LEADA Expo 2017
Held on 9th March 2017 7.30 am Registration and Breakfast 8:30 am Welcome Bruce Morgan, Chair, LEADA 8:35 am Andrew Ware (SARDI) – Lower Eyre Peninsula Trial Updates 9.00 am Mark Modra (GRDC) – GRDC Update – directions and changes 9.10 am Keynote Speaker Rick Bieber, (No Till Farmer South Dakota USA) – Improvements to…
LEADA Soil Modification on Lower Eyre Peninsula Improving Access to Soil Moisture
Summary There are an estimated 160,000ha of soils on Lower Eyre Peninsula that have known soil constraints that negatively impact on agricultural production that can be addressed through current soil modification techniques. These include soils with poorly structured subsoils and sandy soils with low water holding capacity and poor fertility. In the past 2…