Listen to our podcast from last year with GOA's Maurie Street re canola diseases & fungicide applications, based on trials GOA has conducted.

We have a quick introductory chat about the risk of sclerotinia in 2025 & if you should be rushing out on the spray rig. 

Podcast has some good facts & figures on:
     -What diseases may be an issue in 2025 & their lifecycle.
     -Fungicides: to spray or not to spray.
     -Is spraying economic or not?

GOA's Maurie Street gives us the good oil on clethodim use in canola, based on 20+ trials GOA has conducted.
-How to avoid damage.
-Timing (it's not as easy as you think).
-What damage looks like.
-The impact of damage on yield.

The importance of good water quality for good spray results.

 Maurie Street from GOA has a chat about the importance of water quality and spraying:

-Do you know the quality of your water source for spraying?

-What impact is it having on your spray job?

-What can you do to if you have sub optimal water?

 AND you don't always need adjuvants!

Maurie Street chats to us about canola phosphorus placement.

Based on 22 trials since 2015 have shown that modifying starter P placements can: 

• Avoiding establishment losses whilst maintaining yields 
• Achieve more reliable and predictable establishments 
• By ‘SPLITTING’ starter fertilisers growers can   
• Spread fertiliser in less busy periods  
• Reduce fertiliser handling at sowing   
• Streamline sowing operations  
• Risk management strategy- dry sowing etc 

In this podcast Maurie chats to us about:

• Non-chemical options for weed control using crop competition - it's cheap & relatively easy to do!
• Does increasing sowing rates lead to increased screenings?
• What happens to yield in dry years in the more marginal areas of the CW when you increase plant populations?
• What yield are you leaving in the paddock? Lower sowing rates often result in lower yields than higher ones.  

GOA's Maurie Street chats to us about canola diseases & fungicide applications, based on trials GOA has conducted.
     -What diseases may be an issue in 2024 & their lifecycle.
     -Fungicides: to spray or not to spray.
     -Is spraying economic or not?

GOA's Maurie Street gives us the good oil on clethodim use in canola, based on 20+ trials GOA has conducted.
-How to avoid damage.
-Timing (it's not as easy as you think).
-What damage looks like.
-The impact of damage on yield.

Maurie Street from GOA has a chat about the importance of water quality and spraying:
-Do you know the quality of your water source for spraying?
-What impact is it having on your spray job?
-What you can do to if you have sub optimal water?

AND you don't always need adjuvants!

Listen to Maurie Street talk us through the work GOA has done on P placement in canola.....the results might surprise you!
-Results based on over 16 trials on alternative P placement.
-P fertilizer with the seed can decrease germination by up to 80%.
-Placing P on the soil surface - is it available to the canola plant? Sure is!

Listen to our chat with GOA's Ben O'Brien as he talks us through:
-The impacts of plant population on crown rot.
-What part N plays.
-Varietal interactions
In low-moderate yield conditions