Craig White (AUS)

Bayer Crop Cast, August 2019 with Craig White and Matt Willis, recorded while we were in South Australia, examining crop trials around the south-east and mid north areas.

In this episode we discuss how the pre-emergent herbicides are performing, with Sakura standing out now with it's strong residual grassweed activity, and the benefits of using Velocity and Precept, with Precept being particularly useful in oat crops.

Disease Management is an important consideration now, with yield potential being setup. We discuss the "Crop Disease Sequence Trials," looking at which combination approach will provide the best benefits.

Finally we finish off discussing Truflex Canola varieties, TagTeam and list some industry events and field days coming up around Western Australia.

Weedsmart Week Events:

Emerald, Qld 13-15 August 2019

Horsham, Vic 27-29 August, 2019

www.weedsmart.com.au

Southern Dirt Techspo

Wagin and Katanning 7-8 August

www.techspo.com.au

CropLife Australia - Resistance Managment Guidelines http://www.croplife.org.au

For Information about managing canola diseases: www.cropalert.com.au

Bayer Crop Science Australia

www.crop.bayer.com.au

www.sakuraherbicide.com.au

Southern Dirt Podcast for June 2019

We talk with the Chairperson of Southern Dirt, Evan Hall, discussing a range of projects and ideas behind the group and what the future brings in the area.

Bronwyn Copestake is the Research & Development Manager a Southern Dirt. Bronwyn introduces herself and she discusses the key challenges and projects for addressing these issues around the Southern Dirt area, including Flax, Soil constraints and the Techspo that is coming up in Wagin and Katanning on 7-8 August.

TECHSPO is Western Australia’s premier technology and innovation event for the Agricultural community and associated industries. We are bringing technology developers, farmers, advisors, expert researchers and officials together for two days of advanced agriculture technology, information sharing and collaboration. This event format is based is a mixture of conference and in-field demonstrations. BOOK NOW at http://www.techspo.com.au

Crops are emerging at the Cropping Challenge site near Katanning. Southern Dirt Project Officer Marissa Maitland and Craig White from Bayer walked through the plots talking about the progress. http://www.croppingchallenge.com.au

Further information and contact for Southern DIRT at https://www.southerndirt.com.au

Bayer is a strongcsupporter of Grower Groups right around Australia and you can get more information, access to useful crop protection tools and information at http://www.crop.bayer.com.au

Information about other grower groups is available at http://gga.org.au

Ben and Craig go for a drive around the farm checking rain guage, crops and pastures. We discuss early season crop issues, particularly around variable germinations, weed, insect and disease challenges.

We look at the progress of the Bluegum paddocks renovation which is coming along really welll including nutritional requirments for these situations.

Pastures are growing slowly at the moment with supplemental feeding still ongoing, but close to conclusion. Ben talks about the Lifetime Ewe Management Courses ( https://rist.edu.au/lifetime-ewe-management )and how these help make stock feeding decisions.

For information about managing canola diseases: http://www.cropalert.com.au

Rural Focus Interview with Craig White from Bayer, talking to RF host Jarred O'Brien about early cop season issuues. Get useful video and fact sheets information about Sakura herbicide at www.sakuraherbicide.com.au Early weed control provides big benefits. A good Crop disease managment strategy is vital. Use EverGol Energy on Seed, followed by Aviator Xpro foliar fungicide.

Episode 7 of Bayer Crop Cast. June 2019.

In this Crop Cast we discuss the start of the season, right around Australia, with Bayer Crop Science Technical Field Representatives, Gus MacLennan, Tim Murphy, Richard Jackman and Craig White. (Note: Seasonal conditions may have changed by the time you are listening to this episode, but the messages remain the same).

Dr Peter Peter Boutsalis from Plant Science Consulting discusses weed resistance test findings.

We talk about making the best out of the seasonal conditions wherever you are in Australia, including awareness of weeds with pre and post emergents, and Velocity Selective herbicide that can be safely used from the 2 leaf stage in wheat and barley crops. EverGol Energy and Aviator Xpro make a very sensible and highly effective disease control strategy and we touch on insect and horticultural crop issues.

There are some very useful resources available for Canola disease - Crop alert and management information: www.cropalert.com.au

Sakura Herbicide Training Resources: www.sakuraherbicide.com.au

Dr Peter Peter Boutsalis from Plant Science Consulting discusses the key findings and messages from the weed resistance testing over the last couple of seasons.

Before acting on any content mentoned within the CropCast, please seek local advice from your Adviser, Bayer Crop Science representatives and you can get more information at www.mix-it-up.com.au andhttp://www.plantscienceconsulting.com.au

www.crop.bayer.com.au

Craig White and Rob Campbell talking about the attributes, the benefits and what to expect from using Velocity Selective Herbicide, containing the important Group H and Group C herbicide Modes of action.

Velocity gives excellent post-emergent control or suppression of 28 broadleaf weeds in wheat, barley, triticale and cereal rye crops. This includes those weed populations resistant to Group F, B, and I herbicides.

Velocity remains the standout product for control for wild radish and other brassica weeds giving consistent field performance as shown by over 9 years of field trial data.

Call into your local Landmark store to pick up some Velocity Herbicide today. https://www.landmark.com.au/find-a-branch

More information about Velocity: https://www.crop.bayer.com.au/find-crop-solutions/by-product/herbicides/velocity-selective-herbicide

Southern DIRT is a grower group that aims to create and sustain, vibrant, healthy prosperous farms and communities.

In this podcast - produced in conjunction with long term Southern DIRT supporter - Bayer Crop Science, Craig White talks with the Southern DIRT CEO, Tracey Hodgkins and newly appointed Project Officer, Marissa Maitland about the mission and activities of Southern DIRT. These include the 2019 Techspo on 7-8 August,2019 (www.techspo.com.au ), Cropping Challenge and many more interesting activites coming up this season.

More information and contacts can be accessed at

www.southerndirt.com.au

www.crop.bayer.com.au

www.gga.org.au

Craig White, Customer Adviser and Leader of Integrated Weed Management for Bayer Australia is talking to Jarred O'Brien on Rural Focus Radio about Dry sowing Crops.

Craig talks about the key attributes of Sakura and urges listeners to check out the important information about getting the best from your investment in Sakura by reading and watching the resources available on www.sakuraherbicide.com.au

Craig also talks about the value of early weed control with Velocity Selective herbicide, that can be used from the 2-leaf crop stage in wheat and barley. www.crop.bayer.com.au

On this episode, Ben and I talk about renovating bluegum plantation for crops, knockdowns, the importance of glyphosate and the Bayer transparency program www.bayer.com/glyphosate, precision agriculture, with view to Variable rate seeders that can adjust seed, fertiliser and banded liquid rate, and digital Agticulture.

Theres also some APP reviews and a little bit of humour as well.

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Craig White and Matt Wills discuss early season issues, along with results from 2018 trials. Sakura Herbicide (Sakuraherbicide.com.au), EverGol Energy seed treatment for Smut, Rhizoctonia etc. and the recently released data for "Roundup" on the Bayer Transparency website for, the importance of Glyphosate for world food production. ( www.bayer.com/glyphosate) . There's also some humour and trivia thrown in as well