SouthAustralia grains industry prepares for season 2020

• SA’s grains industry is well poised to benefit from domestic market opportunities in eastern Australia;• The southern grains industry will continue to deal with a most likely drying trend;• highest yields for winter wheats come from April establishment;• Pulse-oilseed intercropping increase productivity in the low rainfall environment;• Potassium deficiency is likely on acid soils where hay cutting has occurred, whereas sulphur deficiency is likely on lighter, low organic matter soils after a wet summer;• Increasing the density of wheat and barley improve the tolerance of these crops to competition from brome grass and ryegrass;• Developing Anew disease risk alert system remove the uncertainty around the timing of and need for fungicide sprays to control foliar disease in pulse crops;
For more info. or to learn how you recover for your cropping or pasture operation, speak to an Agronomist by contacting your local Elders branch.