Cover crops and strip-tillage is helping Bathurst pumpkin grower to save water
A Bathurst pumpkin grower, working with the Soil Wealth team is breaking new ground by using cover crops and ...
Quantifying soil health after long term cover cropping
Key Points • Manage cover crops as you would a cash crop. • Physical and biological soil tests may complement ...
Should you be making hay from your cover crop?
With hay prices through the roof, and farmers desperate for fodder to keep their breeding stock alive, it is ...
Understanding Irrigation Decisions: from enterprise planning to the paddock
Understanding Irrigation Decisions has been written to put in content and provide guidance on irrigation decisions ranging from enterprise ...
Check your irrigation system is ready for the coming season
A check of your irrigation system will ensure you are ready to start irrigating on time and are set-up ...
Is copper copper? Limitations in the control of foliar bacterial diseases in capsicum, chilli and tomato crops
Bacterial populations such as Xanthomonas spp. causing bacterial leaf spot in tomato and capsicum and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato ...
Area-wide management of insect-vectored viral and bacterial diseases – project update
Although, historically, area wide management (AWM) has been mostly applied to management of insect pests, it also has potential ...
Check your subsoil moisture
Dry subsoil For many vegetable regions there is a risk of low subsoil moisture coming out of a dry ...
Check your crop monitoring and soil moisture tools
Make sure your crop monitoring and soil moisture tools are working before it really warms up and crops really ...
Don’t get caught out by rapid increases in crop water use in spring-early summer
Rapid crop growth combined with increases in seasonal water demand (ETo) can increase crop water use by more than ...
National vegetable and potato biosecurity program and handy translated resources
Biosecurity planning provides a mechanism for the vegetable industry, government and other relevant stakeholders to actively determine pests of ...
Soil borne diseases in vegetable crops – A practical guide to identification and control
Soil-borne diseases present an ongoing challenge to the Australian vegetable industry, with an estimated $120 million in losses annually. ...