Trials Looking Good

James Enjoying the Sorghum

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Barley beside Sorghum (Fri 24th May)

The barley is just about to pop into head, this photo shows the barley and Sorghum planted the same day.

I think this WAS a big Puff Adder

We have 117 people employed weeding out volunteer Sorghum from Sorghum (to many plants), one group found this fellow, they claimed self defence. Click on the photos to see his fangs.

Removing Volunteer Sorghum Plants by Hand

I asked my right hand man, Samson on Friday to organize 60 people to hand rouge about 450 acres. When we arrived this morning (Monday) we had 106, probably a good thing, get it done quicker.

Sorghum Looking Happy

I did some more plant counts today in the Sorghum, they range from 40,000 plants established per hectare to 60,000. Or 4 to 6 plants per square meter. Very happy with these numbers.

Barley Looking Good (whole 1 ha of it)

Above, my boot in the barley

Above, Barley on 75cm rows (30 inch) almost row closure

 

 

Small Scale Trials

 

Above, Wheat

Above, Field peas

Above Canola

Great growth over the past 7 days (the crop not John)

I took a photo of James (on right) and John together although a sorghum plant leaf was in front of johns face and James had his eyes shut, so this photo was my back up. I took it today Sat 12th May.

Two happy boys

The Current Crop At 35 Days

 

 

 Above Photo is of photo of the sorghum I took a couple of days ago, it has got a real go on lately

 

Above photo is of the barley we planted the same day as the Sorghum in the background, there is only 1ha of barley, it is really just to see how it grows in our environment.

Above photo is a couple of barley plants, between 10 and 20 tillers per plant (day 35) seems to be going OK.
We finished planting the small scale trials this week, we have 9 different variety/crop type trials plus 6 different nutrition (foliar) trials in the commercial Sorghum area.