A significant increase in resistance to one key insecticide used to control the crop pest insect, Helicoverpa, has been recorded in central western NSW and the Burdekin region of Queensland…Read More
Grain Central, June 21, 2021
From 1980 to 2016, grain production in Brazil increased more than fourfold, due not only to cropland expansion but the widespread adoption of double-cropping…Read More
Grain Central, June 18, 2021
A cotton farm just outside Goondiwindi on the NSW-Queensland border is the site of a ground breaking trial to test whether shredded cotton products could offer benefits to cotton soil health, and a scalable solution to textile waste…Read More
Grain Central, June 17, 2021
Western Australian grain growers have been urged to start monitoring crops for the pest, Russian wheat aphid, which is already active this season…Read More
Grain Central, June 14, 2021
China’s imports of cotton are forecast at a seven-year high, driven by the highest projected consumption in three years, robust State Reserve (SR) imports, and attractive prices for imported cotton relative to domestic supplies…Read More
Grain Central, June 14, 2021
In Australia’s record canola area forecast at almost 3 million hectares, Queensland has once again failed to make any more than a tiny blip on the national radar…Read More
Liz Wells, June 11, 2021
There is a close relationship between fertiliser pricing and grains. But the current price of urea is now 172pc of the price of wheat, the highest it has been in the last four and a half years…Read More
Andrew Whitelaw, Thomas Elder Markets, June 10, 2021
ABARES has forecast Australia’s new-crop wheat production at 27.8Mt, barley at 10.4Mt and canola at 4.2Mt in its Australian crop report – June 2021 released today…Read More
Grain Central, June 8, 2021
Pulse Australia estimates Australia’s five major pulse crops will produce 2.28Mt this year, down 23pc on last year’s production, with dry conditions in parts of Victoria and SA and a reduced lupin area in WA being major contributing factors…Read More
Grain Central, June 7, 2021
Scientists have recently published the results from long-term studies measuring the impact of ameliorating soil acidity on the growth of weeds such as annual ryegrass wheat…Read More
Cindy Benjamin, WeedSmart, June 7, 2021
Applying fops, dims and dens every year in the rotation is likely to be the fasted track to high level clethodim and butroxydim resistance. It’s ok to poke the bear once in a while, just don’t poke him every year…Read More
Peter Newman, AHRI, June 4, 2021
Rice, wheat, and maize account for about 50pc of the world’s consumption of calories. But there is growing recognition of the important role of the other 30,000 plant species that are edible – the ‘orphan crops’…Read More
ICRISAT director general Dr Jacqueline Hughes, June 4, 2021