We had a blast on Friday! Sabrina Hahn thanks for sharing your love of gardening with an enthusiastic bunch of local gardeners! Your vast knowledge of how to care for our own patches and the wider environment, delivered with such warmth and fun, was simply magic! There were so many take-home messages: Home-made compost is…
Nitrogen (N) fertiliser can boost pasture growth during feed shortages: for instance, in late breaks to the season and with early lambing ewes. To gain the full economic benefits you must use the additional feed produced, and the largest benefits are when pasture feed replaces the need to buy supplementary feed. Using N fertiliser may…
Growers are liming now to adjust their soil’s PH and calcium profiles. The graph below shown how soil pH affects availability of plant nutrients: Call Cowaramup Agencies for pit lime or, for smaller scaled jobs, use Calciprill. Read more here, or call Tim. Agronomist Brooke Anderson can offer advice on Calciprill and its use. Calciprill is pure calcium…
CropX – a Farm Management System demonstration Two sessions 23 April – for Irrigators/Centre Pivots (Forest Grove, 11.30am – 2pm) 24 April – for Irrigated Vineyards/Horticulture (Metricup, 1pm – 3pm) Join fellow farmers, irrigators and centre pivot users to discover the CropX farm management system, operating from a farm at Forest Grove. This is a…
With no rain in the Margaret River region since October 23, vines need to be in good condition to avoid early budbreak. WATCH CLIP HERE In this clip Mike Sleegers, Cowaramup Agencies and Brooke Anderson, Agronomy Solutions share their thoughts on what to be aiming for with a post harvest fertiliser program. # Nitrogen will…
