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Echunga | To other aussie farmers how are crop conditions, moisture and your gut feel about yields and weather prospects over the critical aug/sept period.
Here in South Australia were are probably one of the driest areas of the state and are currently in a rainfall deficiet of around 35 to 40%.
Good rains fell in april but just light falls since and crop is losing potential by the day add to that hostile soils, and rampant rhizoctonia we all looking at below average crops here. A fair part of eastern south australia in in similar shape.
The rest of South Aust is good to excellent
Edited by Malleefarmer 8/18/2009 17:48
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Victoria, Australia | Sorry to hear things are a bit crook over your part of the world malleefarmer. Here in the southern Wimmera of Victoria things are looking good, but like you we are still well behind on avg rainfall and the days are getting longer and warmer. The Wimmera plains are in the best shape they have been for a while as is the Mallee, but I hear there are parts of the Mallee which are on a knife edge now. Hope things turn aroundfor you soon.
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Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia | Darling Downs, Southern Qld.
Crops still looking good on the Downs but rain required very soon to maintain potential. Crop was planted with excellent moisture and has had only 25mm rain in one fall n late June since planting. Almost two months since that rain has the crop growing entirely on stored moisture at the moment. Days have warmed up earlier than we would like and crops will be pushing heads out in the next 2 weeks. With 2 inches rain shortly (unlikely) we would grow above average crop but without rain likely to be slightly below average.
Most of Qld is on a knife edge now, must rain in next 2 weeks or crop size in this state will halve. |
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Echunga | To avoid confusion to non australian nat viewers
There are two regions called mallee,in South Australia and Victoria, the region overlaps the border hence victorian mallee and south australian mallee.
Being a parochial south aust i should say our mallee is better but of late im doubting it, i go to murrayville just over the border for sport and they never seem to miss out.
North winds here again today but with promise of some much needed moisture over next 7 or so days.
It right on cue as we start shearing next week.......... |
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Blvd d'Espair Bowhill, Sth Aust | Peter..
post some shearing pics please...
You can't imagine how much I miss it......
Edited by Ham 8/19/2009 04:00
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nw nsw australia | Northwest nsw a mixed bag Walget-Coonamble good to great, Narrabr- Moree good,dry around Wee Waa. Went to nth qld (st george roma emerald claremont mackay) 2 weeks ago didnt see many dryland crops in 2000km i would like to own only good stuff was within 100 km of the boarder.Liverpool plains are good but like the whole east coast nedds rain yesterday |
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| We're in the mid north, some good along the the hills but most of the plains will be stuffed in a week or two. 4 years running now. Is there a god??? |
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Tamworth NSW Australia | We planted at the optimum time here, mid to late May with full moisture profile. 40mm in June and 28mm mid July. Crops look terrific at the moment on the plains and will last another few weeks before losing yield potential. It wont put out a head for another month and yield potential will drop rapidly then if it stays dry. Crops on the lighter soils are desperate for rain and some have been given over to grazing stock, as winter pastures have been burned off by hot dry weather. The forecast here is for 30 degrees C (86F) here this weekend, so looks like spring is here early.
Pics taken today, no clouds in sight.
Edit: Forgot to say Gairdner barley.
Edited by Emu 8/19/2009 05:50
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Nth New South Wales Australia | North of Walgett we need a rain now too,early crops just at head emergence and have tapped into subsoil moisture but rain would add a lot of yield,later planted crops and chickpeas looking for rain to fully develop secondary roots to access subsoil.
Another two dry weeks will soon show what fallow weed control last summer/autumn was done on time or not.
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far sNSW , Australia | Southern NSW 60 km from Vic border, crops are looking excellent, cereals 2 or 3 nodes, canola starting to flower. Unfortunately when you add up the rainfall so far we're about a decile 1 growing season so far, so will take at least 4 inches to get us anywhere near our normal averages of 4t/Ha. 4 years in a row of bottom 10% of historical rainfalls is impossible surely. Never had 2 in a row before. |
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