This video reads true to my heart. Please take 3 minutes to watch it. Speak to your neighbours, ring your mates up for a chat, or organise a #6B’s event with other farmers/clients. Thanks @BradMillsteed (& for your efforts too @spraydriftgirl). 👍🌾🍺🔥🥩💩

Local at Culgoa @HerbieWarne filmed a carpet snake and its tree climbing ability 🐍- what great creatures, and so rare to see. Long live the carpet, see one about every 20-30 years in the creek. @gavin_jd_smith @Matt_HerringOz @CropDoctor54

More lentil desiccating & resistance testing today. First stop - the beautiful southern Flinders Ranges, focusing on brassica weeds resistance. DK time here, with a ST on the header to finish the job at harvest time. #Big6

Couldn’t agree more Snuffy! 👏👏

At Lentil desiccation time, you get a good look at the year’s weed control, as well as the legacy of previous crops. 2 different clients here, 3 diff paddocks & all Lentils in 2022. Add Milk/Sow Thistle to the weed list of “I didn’t know we’d capture that at harvest”! #ChaffDecks

One of the interesting observations from assessing the Grape Hyacinth trial this afternoon. Where the treatment was mowed/slashed, or had only Paraquat, the Ryegrass has taken over. Lentils really do not compete at all well with weeds!

Nature’s way of saying “sorry I almost flooded you again this afternoon”! 🙄😍

I spoke to council first for permission to do the trial. They said it was a DIT road and wasn’t their responsibility. Got DIT approval and I thought ‘happy days’. Good case of poor communication surrounding road ownership & responsibilities! 🤷‍♂️

Quick update - I just spoke to the DIT. It wasn’t them that went over the trial, so they aren’t to blame. 👍

That feeling you get when you drive down to assess your Gazania trial and either the local council, or more likely, DIT, have mown straight through it. 😡 Hopefully, not a complete loss as the residual treatments may still be of use for future assessments. 🤞

A pat on the back to growers who take almost a nil tolerance approach to weed blow-outs. 👏👏 Chemical fallowing patches save a lot of future grief in the rotation - & in a lot of cases, make up for it in future crops. This paddock will still need a paraquat to finish it off. 👌

And so it begins…. Harvest can’t be too far away. 🙄

Inbetween trial assessments today, I’ve been doing Milky Dough assessments in cereals for 2,4-D applications. I keep having gentle reminders of what Brome Grass can do when left untreated - in this case, in Cyclops Barley. Not much Barley left in the middle of the patch. 👎

Nice day for some trial assessments! Grape Hyacinth this time. Another garden escape, proving very hard to control. Similar to Star Of Bethlehem (SOB by name, SOB by nature), GH patches have progressively got worse over time. 👎

Great work Landscape SA! Every bit of public awareness helps. 👏👏👏

If you suspect you have weeds that have evolved to avoid harvest weed seed control by shedding seeds or some other mechanism, please get in touch with @Mike_AHRI from AHRI by sending a pin to his mobile phone and he'll test them for you @WeedSmartAU

Master 11 doing a victory lap with “the cup” 🏆🏉🦁🏆🏉🦁

Congratulations @Andrew_Crowell on another Lions premiership 🦁🏆🏉!!! Well done on everything you do for the players’ health & wellbeing. Legend effort. 👏👏👏

SAGIT project update! Growing Lentils in Transient Salinity Paddock 2 - Wheat in 2024 Best Treatments Pea Chem Fallow (R) Barley Chem Fallow Wheat (crop) (L) Pea tmt would have flow-on N benefit also. Wheat tmt starting to look better now.

SAGIT project update! Growing Lentils in Transient Salinity Paddock 1 - Lentils in 2024 Best Treatments (L to R) Pea Chem Fallow Barley Chem Fallow Lentils (crop) Terribly dry year in 24 & 25, has seen salinity get worse where Lentils were harvested last year.

Capeweed showing up in chaff decks, now it is flowering. A surprising weed seed to think we capture at harvest, given its light, fluffy seed. Hugely effective at competing out Lentils. No need to yield out the difference, given the Lentils won’t yield at all where the CW is!