scf podcast

April 2022

The 2021 season was challenging, exceptional, unique, wet, waterlogged, unprecedented and I could go on and on trying to describe the past season we all experienced. Throughout the year and during harvest the SCF team had many interesting discussions with members and agronomists.

They say crisis breeds innovation and I think we have saw a lot of innovation and adaption last season. This panel discussion will cover the 2021 season, strategies that were utilised in response to waterlogging, and the performance of late and reseeded crops. We will discuss what lessons can be learnt from this unique season, and how this will effect management

decisions moving forward.

Stirlings to Coast Farmers Podcast 2

August 2020

SCF Smart Farms coordinator Philip Honey discusses Smart Farms technology applications with Craig White, Market Development Agronomist at Bayer.

Phil and Craig talk about practical application of Soil moisture probes, rain-tank sensors, Multi-Year Standardized Analysis of yield data, nitrogen management and sub-surface drainage.

Stirlings to Coast Farmers Podcast 1

May 2020

Stirlings to Coast Farmers (SCF) CEO Nathan Dovey & Smart-farms coordinator, Philip Honey talk with *Bayer Australia Market Development Agronomist Craig White about a range of projects and topics underway in the SCF area. In this "Hands-Free" podcast, we discuss Closing the yield Gap in the High Rainfall Zone, Mid-row banding of nitrogen to bring about greater N utilization by plants and a Non Wetting Soils trial being undertaken as part of a larger project managed by Southern Dirt grower group.

Smart-farms Coordinator Phil Honey talks about the Ag-technology project covering a 100% cropping farm and a mixed crop and livestock farm, with the goal of Smart-Farms being to test Ag-Tech in a real farm situation and understand the usefulness in terms of; creating efficiency, time saving and making money. Future SCF podcasts will feature in-depth discussion about some of the Smart-farms technology and what it is bringing to the farming operation.