12 rows, 9 different combos of press wheels. Ready for the paddock demos next week at Foundation farm.

View from the ground tells a different story to the overhead shot. Precision vs Airseeder. #Foundationfarm #growingpossilities

Guso didn’t get the memo about funky shirt Friday. Anyway our first sorghum trial is getting planted. Happy Friday all.

Tripping around today. Plenty happening. 1. Exp silage forage near Condamine. 2. Sentinel near Billa Billa. 3. MR Bazley Harvest near Yetman.

📢A new 5yr $11.6m joint project will aim to address lodging in sorghum – an issue that is consistently rated as the most significant concern facing Australian sorghum growers. Project partners: GRDC, Pacific Seeds, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland and UQ News QLD Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation
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NEWS: Pacific Seeds has joined forces with ClimateAi and Goanna Ag to create Skip, a new on-farm decision-making tool that combines climate analytics with a regional weather network to help growers identify and manage on farm climate risks. bit.ly/3fqzE7P

‘What’s that Vulcan you’re happy to see the end of sorghum harvest’. Thanks again to the Von Pein family at Macalister, Qld for hosting another Pacific Seeds trial. Yield data to follow. #resolutedominace #morethanseed Kurt von Pein Luke von Pein Matt Naumann

Frosted corn from the weekend’s cool weather. Growing point seems to be ok.

“From little things big things grow”

Some may still be planting winter crop. Not here at Warra summer crop 2020 is going in the ground. Pacific Seeds 606IT corn is the choice. What are your thoughts? To early, just right. We’ll see how it goes.

Have you ever wondered where our summer hybrids are produced. Check out this video. youtube.com/watch?v=uM1oOe…

My wife has been #isobaking . Sorghum flour sourdough. I’m looking forward to the taste test. #sorghumthesmartchoice #growmoresorghum

Unfortunately our ⁦Pacific Seeds⁩ field day is cancelled. Sorghum guru ⁦Trevor Philp⁩ was excited to talk about sorghum hybrids, demo press wheels and other trial results. Stay safe out there. ⁦Pacific Seeds⁩ field days will be back and we’ll see you soon.

New IMI tolerant quick maturity low tillering Sorghum bred for the tougher environments. MR Bazley on the right Halifax on the left

Looks like a warm Autumn for those thinking of late planting, double edged sword will need good follow up rain to support the higher ET and low starting water

Which press wheel do you prefer? Coil press wheel, Furrow force, Fast Trac, Cast press wheel. Pacific Seeds research farm testing. Trevor Philp

And that’s a wrap 2018-19 Pacific Seeds sorghum trials are done. Thanks to our fantastic trial cooperators. You all make our job easier. Now on to the data.

Quality data from row spacing trial. 50cm 13.6% M, 77 TW, 3.3% Scr. 100cm 13.5% M, 77 TW, 9% Scr. 4 samples taken from both treatments. Tim Fraser

Compare the pair. Same hybrid, same pop, different row spacings.
100cm v 50cm. What comes out on top? Same trial run across multiple Pacific Seeds sites.

Applications for the Ben Coleman Memorial Award for Growers at #ASGC19 are now open. Eligible entrants must be a practising full time farmer, and be nominated by industry or their peers. Noms close 1st Mar '19. Visit the Conf Website:buff.ly/2SHskKT for more info