Two key soil-borne diseases suspected to be emerging threats for South Australian pulse crops are the subject of laboratory research, DNA sequencing and efforts to develop PREDICTA® B testing framework.
Growers in South Australia’s low rainfall cropping regions could soon have access to better-suited lentil varieties with unique traits, with a South Australian Grain Industry Trust funded project underway.
With spring just around the corner, growers should be starting to keep an eye out for winged pest insects in grain crops.
Significant differences between productivity and profitability of break crop options have been highlighted in Mallee Sustainable Farming’s SAGIT-funded project, ‘Adopting profitable crop sequences in the SA Mallee’, with high-value legumes proving their ability to offer farmers considerable benefits for diversity over continuous wheat.