Faba Bean Breeder and PhD Candidate at The University of Adelaide. Views are my own.
Waite Campus, Adelaide.
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Variety factsheets now available for our new faba bean varieties FBA Barmah and FBA Coorong. seednet.com.au/products/faba…
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@GRDC_NVT would like to announce the release of the NVT results for FBA Coorong faba bean, bred by Adelaide University! For all the NVT results on yield, quality, and disease ratings head to nvt.grdc.com.au.
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@GRDC_NVT would like to announce the release of the NVT results for FBA Barmah faba bean, bred by Adelaide University! For all the NVT results on yield, quality, and disease ratings head to nvt.grdc.com.au.
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Talk about resilience! 🫛Faba beans that copped a battering from hail a few weeks ago have managed to not only keep flowering but also start podding despite the broken branches 💪🏽 @SouthernFS #fababeans #haildamage #flowering
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The faba bean aphid season has officially started. FBAs have been found on fabas in NSW and Vic, with colonies in patches. Regularly monitor your crop, they can spread rapidly with the wind.
More info
grdc.com.au/__data/assets/pd…
@NSW_AGRONOMY @theGRDC @cesaraustralia @PestFactsSARDI
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💻 NEW RESOURCE
The new Grain Legume Extension Hub website provides info on pulse research incl trial sites, upcoming events & field days.
Hub ▶️ spahub.com.au
More ▶️ bit.ly/4fn7R5t
@Moodie_ag @jasonbrand @VicGovAg
#GroundCoverOnline #Pulses #Research
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Consultant Kirrily Condon @grassrootsag told growers & agronomists at a GRDC–Brill Ag faba bean workshop that in the past 2yrs their clients in low-medium rainfall areas had only applied one fungicide spray to faba beans each year.
Find out how
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bit.ly/4c6QMu3
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Are faba beans being underestimated?
Rising interest in the potential farming system benefits of faba beans saw 75 growers and agronomists attracted to a focus session at Ganmain in southern NSW in March.
More ▶️ bit.ly/4cC30M4
📷 Nicole Baxter #GroundCoverOnline
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GROWER STORY 🌾🌾
Stephen Cooper and his family bought a half share in a deep tillage machine to drive lime into an acid subsurface soil layer and improve their faba bean production.
Read more: bit.ly/4cxlFsD
📷 Nicole Baxter/GRDC
#GroundCoverOnline #GrowerStory
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The @nswdpi "Managing diseases of faba bean" guide is out NOW...
Includes:
🦠Major diseases overview.
📸Great photos as a reference.
👩🌾Management tips.
LINK⬇️
dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets…
@theGRDC @GRDCNorth @vanleurj @Mark_RichardsAG @s_simpfendorfer
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Pulse trials at Kiata just starting to appear… Acid Sandy vs Alkaline cracking clay in same paddock. Looking at different varieties of lentils, peas, beans, vetch, and lupins.. nutrition and inoculation as well…some rain please🤪 @SC_Catt @Moodie_ag
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We're sorry Wimmera farmers... we know you hate filling out surveys & we hate asking you to do them BUT the info we get is super helpful in working out how we can grow better beans. Just ask @JasonBrand - if you've got 5 mins, we'd love your input
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bit.ly/48PN9XO
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Attention Wimmera farmers
Is faba bean yield instability a problem for you? You can help by completing this five minute survey so we can better understand the barriers to growing consistently high-yielding faba bean crops in the Wimmera.
surveymonkey.com/r/fababeans
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Are you looking to improve the performance of your faba beans?
Join leading Wimmera agronomists for 3 new discussion groups in Woorak, Douglas and Bungalally starting late Feb
@zordsinhorsh @matthew_sparke @JasonBrand @Moodie_ag
👉 Register bit.ly/48oWB46
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The @theGRDC NVT 2023 long term yield results for Faba Bean North have been released! Visit app.nvt.grdc.com.au/lty/tabl… to see how varieties performed across different locations.
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What’s next for faba bean varieties? Interested in seeing what varieties are coming through and what might be next after PBA Amberley? For an update come to AgriFocus on the 18th to hear @SC_Catt chat all things variety in faba beans! @SouthernFS
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Canola on right after fabas and on left after wheat - crop on right coming home with wind in the sails on extra water and N. Effects on yield, costs, inputs, profit, weeds, disease, all important to track over the years in the @GRDC @NSWDPI @CSIRO Farming Systems Project
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Grain Producers SA has issued a please explain to both the federal and state governments in the wake of the apparent pulling of funding for a $378 plant protein project.
stockjournal.com.au/story/83…
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Cercospora leaf spot on faba bean crops around Bordertown (SA & Vic) has been reported. @CropWatchSA
Soil borne disease, more common in paddocks with long term bean cropping & promoted by rain (eg. June rainfall).
React where necessary.
Thanks to @buckets4444 for photo
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It’s that time of year when some varieties are just starting to bud. Our time of sowing x variety trials takes a look at the phenology of faba beans through flowering and podding 🫛😎 #fababean #phenology #southwestvictoria
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