Talking CTF

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In this episode, we talk to Dr Jeff Tullberg and Dr Chris Bluett about the results of a five-year project titled “Application of CTF in the Low Rainfall Zone (LRZ)” funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and co-funded by participating partners.

Jeff is an Australian agricultural engineer with broad experience in research, teaching, extension and consulting on technical and economic aspects of farm machinery and its impact on soil, cropping systems and the environment. Chris is an agriculturist with broad experience in grain crop agronomy and farming systems, primarily in the High Rainfall Zone of Southern Victoria. His work includes new crop development ie canola, raised bed farming and controlled traffic farming.

This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X: “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series.”

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Josh Pearse works at Vantage WA and is an expert in precision agriculture and controlled traffic farming. Josh established the WACTFA Facebook group and is an ACTFA board member. In this episode, we talk to Josh Pearse about finer details of matching machinery for CTF such as common operating and track widths and ratios and options for machinery guidance. His top tip is “Measure, Measure, Measure”.

This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project

Tim Rethus is a farmer from Horsham whose family business Rethus Broadacre has run a controlled traffic farming system for more than 20 years. Tim shares with us their machinery configuration, the benefits, and the challenges of CTF. Rethus is one of the few farms in Australia that produce hay with equipment matched to their 12m CTF system so that all hay operations run on the wheel tracks.

This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series” You can listen to the series here

In this episode, we chat with ACTFA board members Dr. Jeff Tullberg and Dr. Dio Antille about the benefits of controlled traffic farming from a research perspective. Jeff is an Australian agricultural engineer with broad experience in research, teaching, extension, and consulting on technical and economic aspects of farm machinery and its impact on soil, cropping systems, and the environment.

Dio is an Agricultural Engineer who has expertise in soil and water conservation engineering, land rehabilitation, farm mechanization, soil nutrient, and fertilizer management.

This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series”

Ben Beech Farms on a mixed sheep and cropping enterprise located in Frankland River down in the Great Southern of WA. Which is located northwest of Albany. Ben is a relative newcomer to CTF and in this episode he tells us about the transition to CTF and the challenges he faced. Ben also presented to the 2022 National CTF Conference in Perth to fellow farmers and researchers. More in the episode and thank you for listening to talking CTF.

ACTFA would like to Acknowledge the following funders who made this podcast interview possible.

ACTFA-National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X "Resilient mixed farming systems In Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming.

For further information on ACTFA and CTF please visit our website www.actfa.net

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Luke Clark is a partner in a family farming business at Jamestown, in the Mid-North of South Australia.

Their cropping enterprise is a full CTF zero till operation, retaining 100% of stubble to achieve constant ground coverage. There is a separate enterprise of a self-replacing merino flock. Luke has also worked as a broad acre cropping agronomist.

He learns a great deal from other like-minded farmers, and fits it all to their environment, using his degree as he puts it from the “You-tube Uni” and his master's from the “Google Institute of Time-wasting.

In this episode Luke tells us how he got started in farming and made the transition to CTF. Luke also offers some insights into setting up a CTF system and the benefits that CTF has bought to his family farming enterprise.

ACTFA would like to Acknowledge the following funders who made this podcast interview possible.

ACTFA-National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X "Resilient mixed farming systems In Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming.

For further information on ACTFA and CTF please visit our website www.actfa.net

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In todays episode we look ahead to the 2022 Soil Amelioration/Controlled Traffic Farming Conference on August 3-4 in Perth. Dr David Minkey EO of WANTFA and Bindi Isbister Chair of ACTFA give a preview of what to expect at the conference. 

To register for the conference and view the program go to www.wantfaconferences.com.au. Take advantage of the steep discount for early bird registration.

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Industry interested in exhibiting at the conference please e-mail [email protected] for the prospectus.

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