AgLife – October 30, 2019 edition

October 30, 2019

Optimistic Victorian Farmers Federation president David Jochinke believes the Wimmera-Mallee represents one of the few bright spots amid nationwide predictions of a grim grains harvest.

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he Wimmera-Mallee represents one of the few bright spots amid nationwide predictions of a grim grains harvest.

That’s the assessment of Victorian Farmers Federation president David Jochinke.

World-leading food and agriculture financing group Rabobank last week predicted a dire harvest for most of Australia, with the winter crop tipped to yield just 27.7 million tonnes – a figure that would be the smallest since 2007-08.

While regions such as the Western Australia ‘bread basket’ are faltering, Mr Jochinke said many farmers in

Victoria’s west were optimistic of good seasons.

The Murra Warra farmer said the region was still a ‘mixed bag’, but most district farmers were doing better than counterparts across Australia.

“When you look at the national grain crop, it is a pretty hard space to be in at the moment,” he said.

“We’ve got areas that aren’t going to have a harvest and others that are barely going to get their seed back.

“But mainly in Victoria just north and especially south of the ranges, we’re seeing some excellent crops for the amount of rain we’ve had.

“It’s absolutely one of the bright spots around the country.”

Mr Jochinke said above-average

rain in December last year had saved many crops through a drier than usual spring.

“We’ve been fortunate to have the finish and the rain when it fell for us,” he said.

“Because of the rainfall we had in late December, it has given us a lot of opportunity and potential through the districts.

“It’s still very much a mixed bag, but I wouldn’t say anywhere around the Wimmera-Mallee region is down and out.

“There are a few who have had a couple of challenges, especially around not getting the rain when they would regularly have had it.

“We haven’t had average rainfall and

if people weren’t able to get that summer rain last year, that’s the difference between being up or down right now.”

Mr Jochinke said frost had also been a factor in parts of the region.

“It varies across all crops. I’ve seen some in field peas, I’ve seen some in barley and I’ve seen some in canola personally, but I am hearing some stories around the state as well,” he said.

Mr Jochinke said he expected many growers to start their harvest in the next week or two, with harvest ramping up by the second and third weeks of November.

He said a good harvest would help offset a pair of lean seasons for the Wimmera-Mallee.

“It really was the luck of the draw

for that December rainfall last year, which has given us the ability to get through what has been a relatively dry spring,” he said.

“Hopefully everyone can have a reasonable season and catch up a little bit with the couple of bad seasons we’ve had.

“Even though we’re sitting on a good one now, we’ve had two hard ones.

“It’s a game of swings and roundabouts, but we’re very fortunate to be in the position we are in currently.

“But with just the growing season rainfall and without that December rainfall last year, we’d be in a fair bit of strife.”

Webster backs conduct code

FARMING FUN: Above left, Mikayla Farmers and Olivia Dart steward entries at the Nhill Show, and Jonathan Whitehead helps his brother Izaha roll his whip at the Dimboola Show.

Pictures: PAUL CARRACHER

Agriculture show season winding up With only two more agricultural shows on the region’s calendar, another season of farming machinery, shearing competitions, animal displays and home-made crafts is drawing to a close.

Following on from Nhill, Dimboola and Jeparit shows, Stawell and Ararat show committees hosted their annual shows at the weekend.

Ararat Show president Gwenda Allgood said the event had struggled in past years with a lack of committee members and volunteers.

This year however, she said things were looking up.

Ms Allgood said the committee had plans to revitalise the event to become bigger and better each year to continue the show’s near 160-year

history. “We are really surprised by the way it has picked up over the past few years, and we really would like to thank everyone for coming,” she said.

“You can work your tail off trying to get things going, but unless people are coming in, it just falls on its feet.

“And in a community like ours, you can’t afford to lose anything.

“We’ll certainly continue with what we’re doing.

“I think there is a real move out there in the community to keep it going.”

Edenhope Annual Show on November 16 and Beaufort Annual Show on November 17 will round off show season until next year.

Member for Mallee Anne Webster is confident a mandatory code of conduct being introduced from January 1 next year will improve business operations in the Australian dairy industry.

Dr Webster said the introduction of the code, underpinning contractual arrangements between dairy farmers and processors, would be in place ahead of schedule.

“As the member for Mallee I understand the need for clear safeguards which outline how farmers are treated as members of the supply chain and therefore the need for the code to be in place as soon as possible,” she said.

“Ahead of the code’s formal introduction the dairy industry is on notice to make sure that the contracts offered to farmers are appropriate and fair.”

The mandatory code is an election promise and is an outcome of the April 2018 Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s report into the dairy sector.

“The dairy industry has had a huge role in developing the code and I look forward to the release of the exposure code later this week,” Dr Webster said.

“Consultation on the code will be open for four weeks and, from January 2020, the industry will be bound by the new code.”

Dr Webster said further information was available on the Department of Agriculture’s online survey site.

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INSIGHT: Alan McKay is pictured leading a workshop for agronomists in Perth. ing several reports of southern region pulse-crop failures in 2017, due to suspected root rot disease, which prompted further investigations of soilborne diseases of pulses,” he said.

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South Australians ramp border fruit security One in five Victorian drivers at a random fruit-check roadblock at Bordertown this month were fined for transporting fruit across the border.

Each paid fines of $375. The result has prompted a warning from South Australian Primary Industries and Regional Development Minister Tim Whetstone.

Mr Whetstone said fruit fly represented one of the greatest threats to South Australian horticulture and his government would be policing the roads on the state’s borders to stop people bringing fruit in from

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ome canola growers reported boosting their profits by more than $50,000 in 2018.

This came simply by regularly adjusting harvester settings after measuring canola losses from the back of their harvesters.

A new Grains Research and Development Corporation fact sheet outlines the experiences of these growers.

It also contains information about how to improve profits by setting up harvesters correctly, in order to minimise canola falling to the ground.

Planfarm consultant Peter Newman led a GRDC project last harvest aimed at addressing the issue of canola losses from the rear of harvesters and results from his work are in publication.

“An estimated $191-million of canola is lost in this way nationally every year – based on average losses of 150 kilograms per hectare or $75ha across about 2.5-million hectares of this high-value crop grown across Australia every year,” he said.

“This estimate is based on measurements made by Western Australian canola growers and is consistent with what has been found in western Canada where canola harvest losses have been measured extensively.

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“They were then encouraged to adjust their harvester settings and share their findings and dollars saved using the Twitter handle @harvestloss.”

Mr Newman said one setting at a time should be changed and actual losses measured again after each adjustment to assess impact.

“Harvester settings that influence canola lost include the rotor speed, the gap between the rotor and the

concave, the cleaning fan speed, the openings of the upper sieve and the openings of the lower sieve,” he said.

“It’s advisable to measure actual canola losses once or twice a day during harvest, given changing conditions, and to involve the harvester drivers who can pride themselves on aiming to hit the ‘sweet spot’.”

Mr Newman said all harvesters were capable of achieving minimal losses with the right set up and settings, and the aim was not to produce the lowest

losses per hectare, but the lowest cost of harvesting per tonne of grain.

“The ideal is to find the optimum point at which harvest efficiency is high and losses are low – the sweet spot,” he said.

The project focussed on canola losses from the rear of the harvester and did not consider front losses.

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African swine fever is a deadly disease of pigs and has spread rapidly throughout Asia over the past year and was recently detected in Timor-Leste.

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Dr Webster said the government had increased farmer support through the Farm Household Allowance.

“Minister for Agriculture Bridget McKenzie has listened to the concerns of our community and is extending farming families’ access to the Farm Household Allowance to four years in every 10,” she said.

“Other changes will lift the amount families can earn off-farm to $100,000 a year in recognition of the reality that much of the income earned off-farm goes straight to servicing debt, as well as allowing farmers to count income from agistment against their losses.

“A one-off drought-relief payment of up to $13,000 for a farming family, and up to $7500 for an individual, is designed to help people with decisions about whether they will be sustainable, should look at succession options or, in some instances, choose to sell.”

Dr Webster said the government realised that in a country of extremes, farm-

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ers might need to access Farm Household Allowance more than once in their lives.

“We don’t want our local farmers to have to worry about how they’re going to pay the next bill, we want them to be able to focus on what they do best, which is producing fantastic, clean, green product,” she said.

“The Nationals have been standing by Australia’s farmers for 100 years and we’re not about to change that now.

“We’re delivering these improvements as soon as possible to make sure our farmers and their families can continue to access much needed support.”

The Farm Household Allowance has been supporting Australian farmers since July 2014.

It has provided more than $365-million to about 12,700 recipients in that time.

The Bill introduced to the House of Representatives changes the Farm Household Support Act 2014 and the Farm Household Support Minister’s Rule 2014.

SOIL COVER: AGF sales and research agronomist Jade Killoran and Mark McLean from Concongella Landcare are pictured with participants of a cover-crop workshop at Joel Joel.

Cover crops topic of discussion Farmers have heard about ways to increase farm productivity through the use of cover crops.

Concongella Landcare group organised two sessions, the latest at Joel Joel, during March and October.

Cover cropping is the practice of planting a crop between cash crops for the protection and improvement of soil.

The Landcare group’s Mark McLean, who helped host the events, said cover crops were gaining recognition from growers internationally as a plan for rebuilding soils

and reversing the effects of wind and rain erosion.

“Cover crops can be used to help build soil and minimise exposure to the elements, especially during the dry, harsh summer months,” he said.

The sessions included presentations from Jade Killoran from AGF seeds, who has studied cover crops at La Trobe University and has had several years of experience helping growers choose options that suit district conditions.

Ms Killoran provided information on the use of crop options that

can be sown outside the conventional autumn sowing times.

These included, sorghum, millet and forage brassica that could be sown in late spring to provide ground cover over summer and a source of stock feed in late summer, when pastures were usually completely grazed.

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ictoria’s farming peak body has welcomed new national quad-bike safety standards and mandatory operator protection devices.

Victorian Farmers Federation president David Jochinke said the Federal Government changes had answered a call from various industry bodies.

“Workplace safety is non-negotiable,” he said.

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injury and death on Australian farms.

This year they have already claimed nine lives, including three children, and caused an average of six emergency department visits a day.

“The new quad bike safety standards, including mandatory operator protection devices, OPDs, on all new quad bikes are a significant step towards safer workplaces for our farmers, their employees and families.”

Mr Jochinke said it was vital that OPDs were fitted on all quad bikes

and that they were engineered to a minimum safety standard.

He said it was important quad-bike users were well-trained and careful.

“However, the new safety standards will only apply to new quad bikes,” he said.

“So there will still be thousands of quad bikes in use without OPDs. “For those who already own a quad bike, the VFF has negotiated an extension of the successful Quad Bike Safety Rebate Scheme to June 2020.

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“Quad-bike owners can improve their safety quickly and easily by applying for a $1200 rebate today.

“This rebate can cover the cost of up to two OPDs or it can go towards the purchase of a safer side-by-side farm vehicle.”

Mr Jochinke said farmers could apply for the rebate by calling the VFF on 9207 5517 or visiting website www.vff.org.au/quadbike before the rebate scheme closes on June 30.

“While these new standards are a

welcome improvement, they won’t address all of the safety issues associated with quad bikes,” he said.

“Of the nine quad-bike deaths this year, three of them have been children aged 10, seven and three. There are also hundreds of children each year who suffer life-altering injuries inflicted by quad-bike accidents.

“This is entirely unacceptable. If you own a quad bike, please never allow a child to ride or be a passenger on it.

The cost is too high to take the risk.”

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