EPISODE · Sep 2, 2012
Conservation Farming
from GRDC - Driving Agronomy Podcasts · host Grains Research and Development Corporation
2011 Conservation Farmer of the Year, Grant Byrne, from Peak Hill in central NSW uses summer cropping in an area where summer cropping is virtually unknown to fight herbicide resistance. Grant’s shift to conservation farming has seen his yields increase significantly and his inclusion of summer cropping into his rotations has reduced the threat of resistance problems that were developing over his 4000 hectare farming operation.
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2011 Conservation Farmer of the Year, Grant Byrne, from Peak Hill in central NSW uses summer cropping in an area where summer cropping is virtually unknown to fight herbicide resistance. Grant’s shift to conservation farming has seen his yields increase significantly and his inclusion of summer cropping into his rotations has reduced the threat of resistance problems that were developing over his 4000 hectare farming operation.
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