AFTER growing some of their best ever crops following application of chicken manure in addition to their base fertiliser previously, the Hassell family between Pingelly and Wickepin in Western Australia turned to pig manure this season and the crops are again shaping up very well.
NOT much tends to surprise growers after many years farming their land, but Jeff Edwards was in shock when he took a closer look at deeper subsoils on the family’s east Brookton property.
Fortunately, Jeff has since had a similar reaction – in a positive way – to trials of a unique soil amelioration program implemented last year to address the problem.
GROWERS keen to enhance their deep ripping and soil amelioration programs, soil health and nutrient availability and uptake can take advantage of special discounts for on-farm trials next year.
Developing carbon and liquid fertilisers company, Carbon Ag, is offering discounts to growers interested in undertaking their own coordinated trials of its product range.
INTEREST is building towards grain yield results from another year of trials investigating the performance of a range of new carbon products and high concentrate liquid fertilisers across the State’s agricultural region.
Carbon Ag is coordinating the trials from Latham in the northern wheatbelt through to Kulin in the eastern wheatbelt, south to Borden and across to Esperance in the south east. The company has engaged independent research businesses, SLR, a new development and extension research entity, and South East Agronomy Research, to manage fully replicated plot trials at the Liebe Group site at Latham, as well as at Tammin and between Wittenoom and Neridup in the Esperance region.
STRONG crop responses to a range of carbon products and high concentrate liquid fertilisers on farms across the State’s agricultural region can be viewed by growers, agronomists and advisers on a number of properties next week.
Participants will also gain an understanding of how the products are being used for seeding and foliar applications, their performance in State-wide trials and important soil carbon and health benefits.
THE Liebe Group in Western Australia is hosting an innovative trial this season that aims to prove if a high concentrate carbon compost product is the boost needed to kickstart crops on light sandy soils throughout the State’s northern agricultural region.
Liebe Group member and Latham grain grower Dylan Hirsch, who is hosting the Group’s main trial site this season, said crops struggled to get going on the light sandy soils, where there was low carbon and the country may have blown previously when running livestock.
MOVES by a number of graingrowers to adopt a range of high concentrate liquid fertilisers for both seeding and foliar applications, in addition to extended trials with the products that also include the banding of a carbon pellet, could usher in a new cropping system in WA broadacre agriculture.
WA company Carbon Ag Solutions is offering a range of products to growers including liquid phosphorus and potassium fertiliser, DKP, immediately available calcium, magnesium and nitrogen product, CalMag, and the Bioprime line-up of soil microbial stimulants.