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Summer grains field walk

12-February from 08:30 to 16:00

Details

Date: Friday 12 February 2016
Time:
8:30am-4:00pm
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Venue Gatton Research Station
Warrego Highway
Gatton, Qld 4343 Australia

Program

8.30 am Breakfast

9.45 am Field walk

  • Twin row versus solid maize configurations for high yields
  • High yielding sorghum
  • Multi-cobbing maize for high yields in rainfed cropping
  • Drought tolerant maize demonstration
  • Stress wheels for sorghum and maize demonstrations
  • Can on site rapid soil testing kits replace soil lab testing?
  • Using drones to support on farm agronomic research

1.00 pm Lunch

2.oo pm Keynote presentations

3.00 pm Moderated discussion with a panel of farmers

For more information including free bus travel from Toowoomba download the Summer grains field walk flyer (PDF, 2MB).