Cropping and Tillage — March 2021

March 2021 16-page feature

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announced the appointment of Adam Inchbold to its board of directors.

Mr Inchbold, who joined the board on March 1, owns and manages a 5000 ha mixed farming enterprise with his family at Yarrawonga.

The operation comprises wheat, barley, pulse and oaten hay cropping as well as cattle and sheep breeding and finishing.

In addition to managing his own farming operation, Mr Inchbold has been influential in working with the grains industry to assist with the development and delivery of beneficial research outcomes for adoption by growers.

He completed a Bachelor of Rural Science honours degree in 1998.

Mr Inchbold has supervised multiple Grains Research and Development Corporation investments in the Riverine Plains region, including zonal management, improved winter cropping systems, improved WUE efficiency and the stubble initiative.

A Riverine Plains Inc inaugural committee member in 1999, he served five years as the organisation’s chair and 14 years as its research sub-committee chair.

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Pest worries for winter crops

By Daneka Hill

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n a matter of weeks optimistic farmers will begin sowing their first winter crops, kicking off a season that many expect to pale in comparison to last year’s record harvest.

Larcombe Agronomy’s Bruce Larcombe said the real issue this sowing period wasn’t the weather, but instead rodents. ‘‘Farmers need to be looking in their paddock and counting the burrows to see if they are going to have a problem,’’ Mr Larcombe said. ‘‘Be prepared to order bait beforehand because as soon as sowing starts supply could get really tight.’’

The Dookie-based agronomist

also said it was important to be mindful of the impact last year’s crops had on the soil. ‘‘The big crops might’ve removed a lot of nutrients from the ground, such as phosphorus, nitrogen and sulphur,’’ he said. ‘‘Phosphorus in particular will be tricky to deal with because it’s going to be in short supply and expensive.’’

Agriculture Victoria seasonal risk agronomist Dale Grey wisely hedged his bets when asked to predict the weather over winter. ‘‘This time of the year is the poorest time to make predictions,’’ Mr Grey said. ‘‘Most likely I suspect we’ll have a neutral year . . . however there is something uncommon happening, which is that the models are predicting a wetter

autumn. Normally at this time all the forecasts are on the fence.’’

Summer storms in north-east Victoria have left some farmers with favourably high moisture content. ‘‘Moisture probes are coming back half to three-quarters full,’’ Mr Grey said. ‘‘If we end up with a dry winter the moisture will be a benefit, but if we have a wet one they will get waterlogged quicker.’’

That same scattered rain means pests, such as aphids, will be in high numbers due to feed being around.

Mr Grey said it was important to time weed kills right with such high numbers of pests around. ‘‘It can take a while for pests to die or move on, so sometimes when your crop comes through it

could be the first green thing they’ve seen in three weeks. ‘‘That won’t end well.’’

In the world of regenerative agriculture much of the above advice stays the same.

Woodstock West no-till farmer Steve Stone plans to sow 1600 ha of wheat, oats, barley and canola this season. ‘‘The season is too unknown to say much at the moment, but we’re unlikely to get a repeat of last year,’’ Mr Stone said.

The cropper’s biggest issue in the summer was fall armyworm, which he is warning anyone in the Bendigo area to be vigilant about. ‘‘We actually had quite a bit of damage from them,’’ he said.

Mr Stone maintains yearround groundcover on his

paddocks, which protects nutrients and encourages soil density, but decreases moisture content.

For those farmers who missed out on scattered rain and aren’t seeing the same moisture in their paddocks, Mr Stone recommended dissolved urea as a soil drench. ‘‘I spread that out and it’s always very good,’’ he said. ‘‘With using no-till methods you usually end up with better crops in dry times and are able to build soil up to a more stable, better quality.’’

Mr Stone is part of the Victorian No-Till Farming Association, established during the millennium drought by Wimmera farmers.

Updating growers on latest research otential challenges and the latest P research findings, new knowledge and advice has been shared at a

Victorian grains industry event to prepare the industry for the year ahead.

About 180 advisers, growers, researchers and industry personnel attended the Grains Research and Development Corporation Grains Research Update at Bendigo in late February, which also attracted 300 registrations for the online live-stream service.

GRDC southern grower relations manager Tom Blake said after the limitations of face-to-face events last year imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, it was refreshing for industry personnel to network in-person and speak with leading researchers. ‘‘The Bendigo update was an important platform for extending critical information to the state’s growers and advisers ahead of sowing this season’s crops,’’ Mr Blake said. ‘‘Among the top line messages, delivered at the update from a line-up of industry experts, was the need for growers to eliminate the ‘green bridge’ of weeds and volunteer cereals that summer rainfall events have promoted in some regions. ‘‘By removing the green bridge growers can better manage pests and diseases to reduce the risk to yields.’’

The update also discussed the GRDC’s

National Phenology Initiative, which by 2022 will deliver a tool for growers and advisers that will be able to predict optimal sowing dates for different cultivars across Australia at the point of release, as well as a new DNA soil testing service that has been developed to measure Group E and F rhizobia numbers in soil to assist growers in identifying the need to inoculate field pea, faba bean, lentil and vetch crops.

Stripe rust in wheat, which is likely to be an important disease in 2021, especially where summer rain has supported disease carryover, was a key topic at the event.

Field experiments have found the new StripeRustWM app to be a useful tool to support in-crop fungicide decisions.

The update also discussed concerns about severe blackleg crown canker in canola plants infected during early seedling growth, with growers and advisers also encouraged to use PestFacts south-eastern to remain informed about invertebrate pests and beneficials in broadacre crops and pastures during the winter cropping season in Victoria. ➤ More information is contained in papers delivered at this year’s Bendigo Grains Research Update, and these can be found at: grdc.com.au/resources-and-publications/ grdc-update-papers ➤ Recordings from sessions that were livestreamed at the update are also available via the GRDC website.

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Good cropping season predicted he 2021-22 cropping T season is unlikely to reach the highs of the record-

breaking harvests of 2020-21 in Victoria and NSW, but the outlook is still positive, according to Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences.

Significantly larger harvests in every Australian state are forecast to result in a 59 per cent increase in the gross value of grains, oilseeds and pulses compared with the 2019-20 season, leading to a forecast increase in product of 12 per cent to $24 billion.

Although production is unlikely to match the high figures of this year, ABARES predicts cropping regions will benefit from residual soil moisture and replenished water storages ‘‘Broadacre and irrigated crop production will remain highly dependent on variable seasonal conditions,’’ the Agricultural Overview: March quarter 2021 report from ABARES said. ‘‘Crop production is forecast to sit between recent record highs (2016-17 and 2020-21) and drought-affected lows (2018-19 and 2019-20). ‘‘Prices for crop and crop products are forecast to fall in

The upcoming 2021-22 cropping season is unlikely to reach the record-breaking highs of 2020-21.

2021-22 before resuming trend growth. ‘‘Despite recent tariffs on barley and wine, China is still expected to remain Australia’s most significant agricultural trading partner.’’

A faster than expected recovery from COVID-19 will also buoy Australia’s export opportunities according to ABARES, with favourable seasonal conditions likely to combine with the recovery to deliver higher prices.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology’s climate outlook for March to May, there is a high chance of recording close to average March to May rainfall in 2021 across northern Australia and parts of eastern, western and southern Australia.

Across most southern cropping regions, there is a 50 per cent chance of recording close to average March to May rainfall in 2021.

With average or better levels of soil moisture across most

cropping regions, this rainfall is likely to be sufficient to support close to average crops as the summer cropping season ends.

By recharging soil moisture profiles, rainfall is also expected to support close to average crop and pasture production as winter crop sowing begins.

Although the 2020-21 summer crop season is forecast to be much improved on the drought-affected season in 2019-20, the latest ABARES

crop report expects it will still be below average.

Below-average spring rainfall in most summer cropping regions prevented the planting intentions of summer crops from being realised.

Planting in NSW was also constrained by the lack of fallow land following an exceptional winter crop season.

Yield prospects of summer crops are expected to benefit from favourable rainfall outlook and mild temperatures forecast for autumn.

Planting area of summer crops is estimated to be 1.04 million hectares, which is nearly three times larger than in the heavily drought-affected season in 2019-20.

This is a 6.1 per cent downward revision from the forecast ABARES published in the December 2020 Australian crop report, largely reflecting much more unfavourable seasonal conditions during spring than expected.

Summer crop production is forecast to increase to 3.3 million tonnes in 2020-21, which is 13 per cent below the 10-year average to 2019-20, largely because planted area is below average.

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Changes may future-proof food ould changes in fertiliser C application help futureproof food from pests and

climate change?

That’s the question a team of Agriculture Victoria scientists are hoping to answer in worldfirst research.

The research by technical assistant Eva Carreras Navarro and research scientist Piotr Trebicki specifically looked at wheat under future-projected levels of carbon dioxide and

different nitrogen application rates to understand the effect of these factors on the growth and quality of wheat and its susceptibility to insect pests.

Dr Trebicki said in the right conditions, higher levels of carbon dioxide could increase wheat yield, but could also diminish its nutritional value. ‘‘The impact of these changes on insect behaviour is poorly understood,’’ Dr Trebicki said.

Ms Carreras Navarro said the

Updates to focus on innovation riving innovation and adoption D of improved farm-business management practices will be the

focus of two upcoming events.

Held in Bendigo on Wednesday, March 17, and Yarrawonga on Thursday, March 18, the Grains Research and Development Corporation Farm Business Updates will see presenters discuss a number of topics.

AgProfit’s Jane Foster and Eric Nankivell from Farmanco will put land values under the microscope, discussing what factors are at play in the property market for agricultural land, how local land values and profit correlate over the past 10 years and how this compares to different grain growing regions.

They will discuss the trends and data supporting the current market dynamics and the potential implications.

Rabobank global strategist Michael Everly will discuss the global outlook for the grains industry, giving practical advice to farm business owners on where to focus their attention, to manage the current uncertainty and to set themselves up for success in the future.

Paul Blackshaw from Meridian Agriculture will explore the opportunities generated from strong production and financial results of past seasons.

He will provide direction on how to ensure the benefits are leveraged to set the stage for the future.

A guest agronomist — Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Chris Dunn at the Bendigo event and Southern Ag Management’s Tim Pilkington at the Yarrawonga event — will discuss whether now is the time to add some well-managed risk to the rotation in order to strengthen your farming system in the longer term.

The agronomic benefits of diversifying rotation for sustainability and rejuvenation to tackle the resistant rye-grass threat will be explored, as well as the agronomic benefits of adding more legumes in the rotation in a bid to answer the question: How does including more crop diversity effect whole farm performance over three to five years?

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research modelled a number of different scenarios. ‘‘We grew wheat under current and future-projected levels of carbon dioxide and added different amounts of fertiliser to see how it impacts wheat growth and its suitability as a host for insect pests, particularly aphids, one of the major pests of cereals in Australia and worldwide,’’ she said. ‘‘Our research shows that future carbon dioxide levels

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growing population, it is essential to continue investigating the impacts of climate change on food production.’’

The results will help Agriculture Victoria researchers anticipate what can happen in the future and act, despite the complexity around maintaining food quality and keeping pests at bay. ➤ Read the full research paper, at: www.frontiersin.org/articles/ 10.3389/fpls.2020.605337/full

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Know disease risk before sowing now your disease risk before you K sow needs to be a common mantra among cereal growers this year if they

are to avert costly losses from diseases, such as Fusarium crown rot, according to a NSW DPI senior plant pathologist.

Cereal diseases were prevalent in 2020, particularly in NSW, following favourable seasonal conditions during winter and spring which, when combined with increased cereal stubble loads across much of the region, could lead to elevated pathogen levels in paddocks this year.

NSW DPI data shows the major cereal diseases impacting crops last year were wheat stripe rust, with widespread distribution of the newer Yr198 pathotype, spot form net blotch in barley, scald in barley and Fusarium crown rot in different winter cereal crops.

Cereal disease management was a key discussion topic at recent Grains Research and Development Corporation Grains Research Updates with plant pathologists urging growers to assess the range of pathogen inoculum levels within individual paddocks to help guide crop and varietal selection.

NSW DPI senior plant pathologist Steven Simpfendorfer said growers could minimise the yield impact of cereal diseases by managing three key factors — the host, the pathogen and the environment. ‘‘Disease levels in 2021 will still be based around the disease triangle, which requires a combination of pathogen inoculum, susceptible host and

NSW DPI senior plant pathologist Steven Simpfendorfer says growers can minimise the yield impact of cereal diseases this year by managing three key factors — the host, the pathogen and the environment.

environmental conditions conducive to disease development,’’ Dr Simpfendorfer said. ‘‘Cereal disease risk is likely to be higher due to pathogen build-up in 2020 and the likely increased area of cereal-oncereal in 2021. ‘‘All three components of the disease triangle should be considered when developing management strategies, which will help to minimise losses and

determine if fungicide application is warranted. ‘‘NSW DPI is available to assist advisers and growers in obtaining correct diagnosis and developing management options prior to sowing and as required throughout the season. ‘‘To manage disease risk effectively, growers need to know what they’re dealing with prior to sowing — the nature and incidence of inoculum and whether

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Dr Simpfendorfer said it was critical any growers adhering to a cereal-on-cereal rotation use the latest varietal resistance ratings and prioritise high-resistance ratings for the pathogen most prevalent in the region and/or likely to cause the greatest yield loss if they have a situation where multiple pathogens are present.

He said it was also important to recognise that barley, bread wheat, Durum, oats and triticale were not break crops for each other because of the fact they all hosted Fusarium crown rot, takeall and Rhizoctonia.

The GRDC is encouraging growers to undertake a quantitative assessment of cereal disease risk in the lead up to this year’s winter cropping season by undertaking PREDICTA B DNA-based soil tests to gauge the risk of soil-borne and foliar diseases.

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The new Case IH Magnum 310 tractor arrived on the Moama farm last month.

Nearly 25 years separate these two Case IH Magnum series tractors.

New tractor has big tyres to fill

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eliability was what made R farmer Heath Rinaldi hold onto his last tractor for 24

years.

The 1996-built Case IH Magnum 7240 helped run his cereal crop and hay operation in Moama faultlessly, but age was one obstacle the old tractor couldn’t overcome. ‘‘It was a very reliable tractor but it was time to upgrade,’’ Mr Rinaldi said. ‘‘I have been looking for a new

tractor for years, and then the new Magnum came along.’’

Mr Rinaldi said he stuck with the Wisconsin-built Case IH brand because of the excellent service provided out of Echuca and because the Magnum series had proved itself.

The Case IH AFS Connected Magnum 310 is one of Echuca CIH’s newest toys. ‘‘Echuca CIH sales and services are excited to announce they have a MultiControl Armrest Simulator arriving to the

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Mr Rinaldi’s new 310 arrived only two weeks ago.

‘‘I ordered it early, so I managed to snag one but I know it’s hard to get one now,’’ he said.

The farmer admitted he didn’t know too much about all the gadgets he now has to learn, but the two on-board cameras were a big hit. ‘‘The cabin is beautiful and a lot larger than the last one. ‘‘There are also cameras on it so you don’t have to break your neck turning to look at stuff. ‘‘The kids probably love that

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Despite only owning it for a matter of days, Mr Rinaldi said the showroom shine on the 310 was gone. ‘‘It’s pretty dirty at the moment. It’s doing the work.’’

Other features on the tractor included being able to adjust cab suspension from the display screen, brake-assisted steering and advanced telematics (navigation).

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Mr Jackson said the decision to allow GM — which Australia had traditionally been reluctant to do — could play a key role in reaching agriculture’s $100 billion by 2030 goal.

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Focus on frost risk management series of workshops will A be conducted across the southern cropping region this

month to enable grain growers to better manage frost risk.

The Grains Research and Development Corporation’s Better Frost Decisions workshops in Victoria will explore the practical aspects of managing frost on-farm and will assist growers in developing locally relevant frostmanagement strategies.

GRDC southern grower relations manager Tom Blake said the free-of-charge workshops aimed to increase grower awareness of the options available to reduce frost risk and the importance of mapping frost risk across an entire farm. ‘‘The workshops will cover all frost-related considerations for growers, from the impact of a changing climate, climate and temperature scenarios, zoning strategies on-farm, whole-farm frost-risk management and the impact on profitability,’’ Mr Blake said. ‘‘These highly interactive workshops will allow for plenty of opportunity for questions and answers and grower discussions.’’

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Bureau tips wet autumn bove-average rainfall is expected during ABureau autumn in northern Victoria. of Meteorology climatologist Jonathan

What do you get when you combine a robotic tractor and a machine-learning sprayer? An autonomous sprayer.

Robot sprayer on way

wo Australian-owned companies T have joined forces to create a fully autonomous sprayer with

green-on-green weed detection.

Victorian-based Goldacres and Queensland-based SwarmFarm Robotics have combined two of their products to create the technology.

SwarmBot Uniform is a fully autonomous tractor powered by a Hatz four-cylinder diesel producing 83 hp.

The tractor has a hydraulic drive with articulated steering and a top speed set to 10 km/h.

The tractor will tow the custom-built Goldacres 2500 litre 18 m Prairie Special set-up with Weedetect spot

spraying green-on-green or green-onbrown camera technology with the added ability for blanket spraying when required.

The sprayer features a Raven controller with RCM, 16 boom sections, four 1.5 m sections and 12 1 m sections with six cameras mounted 3 m apart.

Getting the three systems provided

by French company Bilberry, Raven and Goldacres to work together has been a challenge for the team.

Bilberry’s technology focuses on teaching the cameras what is a weed and what is not.

Guillaume Jourdain, co-founder and

chief executive officer of Bilberry, said their algorithms can now detect broadleaf weeds in wheat, oats and barley.

Goldacres’ David Tuppen said the technology had the potential to provide substantial chemical savings as opposed to blanket spraying, enabling the user to get the spraying done using substantially less chemical, in the ideal spraying conditions, without a physical operator, ready to spray 24/7.

The full system is expected to be operational early this year and, if successful, will be the first fully autonomous green-on-green sprayer operating in the world.

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Pollock said large parts of western and eastern Australia, including the northern half of Victoria, were likely to receive above-average rainfall during autumn. ‘‘There are higher chances of a wet March, with no strong push towards wetter or drier than average for most of the state in April,’’ he said.

Mr Pollock said extra cloud cover was likely to make days cooler than average in March across the state, however, there was ‘‘no strong push either way’’ for minimum temperatures.

This comes off the back of a summer that saw overall cooler days and nights, according to Bureau of Meteorology figures.

Rainfall was close to average for Shepparton and parts of the north, including Tatura and Yarrawonga, during summer this year.

In Shepparton, rainfall was above normal figures in January, but below average in December and February. December saw 19.6 mm of rain in 2020, well below the mean historical rainfall for the month of 32.5 mm.

January’s rainfall was well above average this year, with 43 mm, compared with 28.8 mm historically, mainly thanks to one quite rainy day. In February this year, only 7.4 mm fell for the month, compared to the historical mean of 35.2 mm.

However, the Bureau of Meteorology reports there was above-average rain for parts of the north-east, including Strathbogie and Rutherglen, during summer.

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Riverine Plains 2021 board members Murray Scholz, Melissa Brown, Fiona Marshall and Ian Trevethan (absent from photo John Bruce).

Chair re-elected

iverine Plains Inc has re-elected Ian R Trevethan as its chair, with several constitutional changes also passing at

the group’s annual general meeting.

Held at the group’s Mulwala offices on February 25, the 2020 AGM was delayed until this year because of border closures and COVID-19.

At the meeting, Fiona Marshall was elected vice-chair, Murray Scholz was elected treasurer and John Bruce was elected public officer. Melissa Brown was also elected to the board.

Several constitutional changes were passed, which related to membership eligibility and board structure.

Riverine Plains chair Ian Trevethan said the changes were important for enabling

a more focused, efficient organisation, with a sharper focus on delivering value to members, partners and research associates.

In his 2020 chairman’s report, Mr Trevethan thanked the outgoing 2020 committee of John Bruce, Melissa Brown, Adrian Clancy, Barry Membrey, Jan Davis, Paul Gontier, Fiona Marshall, Brad Stillard, Eric Nankivell, Curt Severin and Daniel Mol for their work and support throughout the year. ‘‘I believe the group met last year’s significant challenges exceptionally well and, with a smaller board and a new CEO, Riverine Plains is well placed to meet future challenges and capitalise on new opportunities,’’ Mr Trevethan said.

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Fresh look at fertiliser toxicity GRDC-backed PhD student A is encouraging growers to consider the type of fertiliser applied and its separation from the seed when they sow their crops to avoid fertiliser toxicity that may hinder establishment and early crop performance.

This advice is one of several tactics growers can take to reduce the likelihood of fertiliser toxicity occurring.

Some fertilisers are more damaging than others, with current advice largely based on the ‘‘fertiliser salt index’’ first developed in the 1940s.

University of Adelaide PhD student Jacinta Dockerill is challenging the salt index approach, which relates a fertiliser’s toxicity risk with its impact on salinity measured in a laboratory.

Ms Dockerill, whose studies have been supported through a Grains Research and Development Corporation Research Scholarship, said her work was focused on directly measuring plant responses to fertiliser toxicity, rather than predicting the likely impact based on a laboratory test. ‘‘We’re trying to develop a method where we look at the overall crop response including both salt and toxicity effects,’’ she said.

University of Adelaide PhD student Jacinta Dockerill is challenging the salt index approach which relates a fertiliser’s toxicity risk with its impact on salinity measured in a laboratory.

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Toxicity can occur when the fertiliser product is not rapidly diluted by soil moisture or rain.

As the fertiliser granules dissolve, they temporarily increase the soil salinity around the seed, which impairs its uptake of water and the germination process.

In addition to this salt effect, some fertilisers, such as urea, also develop compounds that are highly toxic to germinating seeds.

As part of her honours research, Ms Dockerill examined the effect of 12 different

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Evidence of fertiliser toxicity is seen as patchy or delayed emergence, and weak seedlings with poor early root and shoot growth. ‘‘We found that there’s a few fertilisers that have a very different toxicity response than indicated from their salt index,’’ Ms Dockerill said.

‘‘For instance, urea has a salt index of 75, which is lower than sodium nitrate with a salt index of 100. ‘‘That tells us urea should be less toxic than sodium nitrate, but we found that urea was actually our most toxic fertiliser in the experiment.’’

Ms Dockerill said sulphate of ammonia also had a larger, more toxic effect than expected based on its salt index. ‘‘With urea and sulphate of ammonia fertilisers we saw a response that suggested ammonia was adding to their

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Big release of new John Deere ohn Deere has announced Jrelease its largest simultaneous in a decade, with the

unveiling of a future-focused line-up of new spraying equipment and air seeding tools.

New John Deere 400 and 600 Series sprayers with See and Spray Select advanced spraying technology have been launched.

An all-new line-up of Hagie self-propelled sprayers, designed to help manage challenging field conditions, also comes to market and will include three models.

Key updates have also been made to air-seeding tools including the addition of the John Deere RelativeFlow Blockage detection system, TruSet In-Cab Downforce adjustment and Quick-Change Blades.

John Deere Australia and New Zealand managing director Luke Chandler said the release delivered on-farm results through innovation. ‘‘Our focus has always been, and will continue to be, to lead the development of technology that supports farmers in achieving more with less,’’ he said.

Three new 400 (408R, 410R and 412R) and two new 600 (612R and 616R) Series sprayers have been introduced to deliver enhanced operator comfort,

John Deere will bolster its precision agriculture offering with See and Spray Select technology.

high-quality application and the most machine uptime possible with tank sizes ranging from 3000 to 6000 litres, depending on model.

Prioritising quality spray application, the new boom recirculation feature ensures liquid solution is kept in suspension, so the boom is always primed and ready to spray. The air purge system

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Factory-installed John Deere AutoTrac keeps the sprayer in the row for precise product placement, while John Deere ExactApply technology means operators can more accurately control droplet size, spray pressure and individual nozzles.

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John Deere 400 and 600 Series sprayers have the fuelsaving CommandDrive powertrain that reduces engine revolutions to save fuel while maintaining a consistent speed and spray pattern.

To ensure farmers can leverage the power of their data, the sprayers come standard with

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Key updates for the model year 2022 line-up of air-seeding tools will see proven John Deere technology rolled out across more models.

New features include the addition of the John Deere RelativeFlow Blockage detection system to help farmers ensure product is being accurately and evenly distributed during seeding.

TruSet In-Cab Downforce adjustment allows settings to be changed from the Generation 4 Display and eliminates the need for the operator to make manual downforce adjustments.

It improves seed-to-soil contact, plant emergence and maturity, and helps operators to maximise uptime in the field compared to manually adjusting downforce at the tool.

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