Pulse Australia

Mackay cane grower Ray Abela has learnt lessons direct from the grains industry to improve his fallow cropping, and has put this knowledge to use by building a new air seeder to plant legume crops.

Follow this crop of Maki field pea growing through winter and intended for harvest just before planting cane in spring. Planted on a grey soil block south of Bundaberg, Qld.

Desiccation is a useful aid to harvest of legume crops but it involves careful management to ensure the grain is below the maximum residue limits (MRL) accepted in the destination market.

Peanuts have made an appearance for the first time on the Little Mulgrave property of HJ Way.

Alan Munro is a cane and soybean grower at Woodford Island at Harwood in NSW. He has been a long-term user of mill mud at his farm and hosted trials that looked at whether compost and mill by-products impact on yield and nematode populations.

<h2>Maximising nitrogen fixation in your crop</h2> <p><strong>Source Nikki Seymour, DAF Qld</strong></p> <h3>Good agronomy + Good inoculation = Good N fixation</h3> <ul> <li>Generally, N fixation is related to the biomass of the crop so the bigger the crop the more N is fixed</li> <li>Agronomic practices that optimise plant growth will maximise N fixation</li> <li>Inoculants need careful handling as they contain live bacteria </li> <li>Poor nodulation can lead to N deficient crops, reduced grain protein and yield</li> </ul> <p><img src="/storage/app/media/blog%20assets/rhzobium%20nodules.jpg" alt="" /> <em>Rhizobium nodules on roots.</em></p> <h3>Good Agronomy</h3> <ul> <li>Good drainage – waterlogging can reduce N fixation and increase denitrification</li> <li>Minimise or eliminate N fertilise...</li></ul>

Fungicides registered for use in pulse crops during the 2019 winter cropping season.

Check in on the progress of this peanut crop on a red scrub soil near Kingaroy. Planted mid December 2018.

Maximum residue levels (MRL) and withholding periods are essential safeguards for human health and international trade. We can't afford to ignore these regulations.

An extreme weather event in January and February 2019 had a huge impact on crops and livestock in far north Queensland, including summer pulse crops in the Burdekin.