Leigh Vial
@leigh_vial
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Australian ricegrower, company director, scientist, runner and conservation enthusiast. Views expressed are my own.
Swan Hill, Victoria
Joined October 2013
Current run of warm nights will hurt our big-biomass rice crops. Respiration rates much higher to keep the plants running overnight. Usually just a tropical problem!! @Jeremy_Morton_ @RiceExtension @scottburger00 @CKMonty @soupercocky
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V072, an elite segregation of V071 identified at Moulamein! We are always a step ahead of the pack out here!
@AlleenaBurger paddocks ready at ‘Kameruka’ moulamein for sowing V072 C24 next week‼️@brcagents @GrowerService @Jeremy_Morton_ @leigh_vial @NutrienAgRetail @Eckfarming @BenPearse43
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DFAT’s TOMAK and our @CDUni @ACIARAustralia project team up in Timor Leste for nutrient omission trials to inform TOMAK’s fertilizer initiative. Research for Development. @dfat
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Marcia, Nina and UNTL students have applied custom fertilizer mixes to enact students’ nutrient omission trial on maize in Venilale, Baucau, Timor Leste. Great student science on a basic, important question. Uber-high soil pH. Handy scenery, too. @ACIARAustralia @CrawfordFund
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When Leigh Vial gets a Linkedin invite from…Leigh Vial! Probably not that unusual with more common names.
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Nutrient omission trials underway in Baucau, Timor Leste. 14 UNTL students doing this for their final year project. These trials are a first for Timor Leste. Great win-win building knowledge and skills…and leg muscles climbing the terraces!! @ACIARAustralia @CrawfordFund
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Finally, finally a bit of fiscal policy is being applied to the inflation issue, after years of the RBA monetary policy doing all the heavy lifting. https://t.co/C1Pk7GSGKz
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Australians hoping there could be more cost of living relief in the pipeline could be left disappointed with the government’s plans for the additional revenue.
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This is quite analogous to how Joseph Schumpeter predicted the end of capitalism. Dominance of a class that knows and cares little about it.
The agricultural "elephant in the room" as a diagram.
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Rory chasing the world’s best U20 cross country runners at World XC Champs, Bathurst. Brutal heat and course. Stirring crowd support. Proud parent moment.
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Fresh boots for Marcia, our Timorese CDU/ACIAR project team leader and her new hubby. Size 3, they don’t come any smaller! The best of Aussie farming technology for Timor Leste agriculturalists. @ACIARAustralia @CDUni
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UNTL team finish focus group discussions in Betano, Timor Leste. Beginning of process to ask locals which research questions they want pursued in our ACIAR project. Social science leading/guiding ag research, not accompanying or following it. @ACIARAustralia @CDUni
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Have we paid back the Barmah Millewa borrow yet, @Jeremy_Morton_ ?
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Vaclav Smil showed that if nitrogen fertiliser production stopped tomorrow, global crop production could support just 3.5 billion people. Time for a serious tilt at renewables for nitrogen fertiliser production, Mal?
Record-high fertiliser prices in Australia could disrupt food supplies | Australia news | The Guardian There is a huge drop in production if you do not use large quantities of urea. Until a week ago it was unavailable and when it was double last years pric
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I hope this is not another biological equivalent of a perpetual motion machine. The energy must come from somewhere.
Nitrogen is key to producing the world’s crops — but it comes at a cost. 🌾 Dr Craig Wood and his team are using advanced biotechnology to create new crops that that can fix their own nitrogen for growth. #TeamCSIRO
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Economic growth really is the ultimate addictive drug.. We know it will kill us, but for the life us, cannot work out how to get off it. (or are afraid to listen to those that have worked it out) @SteadyStateEcon
https://t.co/eRoP3xwpSL
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Term deposit choices in Hanoi. Quite a price for choosing the safety of Uncle Sam! @progressiveagri
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Lunch 3 weeks ago with a business manager for the Lao Army. Being a fan of Joseph Heller’s Catch 22, I rejoiced in this conversation!! #Milo
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Edward Chancellor has it right, in my view. Central banks have pushed rates too low for too long, seeking to eek out that extra wiff of economic growth. Now we spend the next while unravelling it? What price endless growth? @cottonfarmgirl @bugs_are_us
https://t.co/GkRfe0y55x
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Who’s to blame for inflation? Edward Chancellor argues it’s central bankers: “We are now waking up to a big hangover from this monetary extremism.”
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