Pulse Australia

Innovation and sustainability drives long-term farming success By Brad Pfeffer, SRA The Walsh family at Woodburn in northern NSW are passionate about sugarcane farming, and doing everything they can to make their farm profitable and sustainable for the long term. With more than 100 years of cane growing history, the Walsh family has seen plenty of changes and innovations to the industry. Farming at Woodburn in the Broadwater mill area, Tom is fourth generation at the family property and son Marty is fifth generation. They farm about 440 hectares of cane over several farms in the area, with th...

NSW grower Robert Quirk is one of the growers with a trial site on his farm for the mixed species fallow, and said he was keen to learn more about something that was novel to NSW.

The Australian soybean plant breeding program is focussed on continual improvement of agronomic and end use traits.

When it comes to managing plant parasitic nematodes, legumes are a poor host (and therefore a good choice) compared to many other crops grown in coastal farming systems.

Check in on the progress of this PBA HatTrick chickpea crop on heavy black/grey soil near Byee, Inland Burnett. Planted late June 2019, following cotton.