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Rebekah Allen and Jessamy Bennet from Kalyx braving the cold, wet and windy conditions today to take another cut from the herbage plots in the LA Variety trial.

35 Grower members and associates attended the 2019 AGM held at Henry & Rose Cafe in Keith on Tuesday 25th October. Guest Speakers prior to the AGM were: Aaron Freeman- Each year, LA Gold sponsor – Rabobank conducts the Rabobank Farm Manager Course. Lucerne Australia has for the past few

PROTECTION PROJECT: Lucerne Australia chairman Josh Rasheed with NSW DPI researcher Ainsley Seago, who has just completed a project aiming to find ways to reduce the impact of lucerne seed wasp. By Catherine Miller, The Stock Journal, 31st August 2019 Lucerne seed wasp is an economic threat to the industry,

Almost 40 members attended the session which released the first year of data from the Variety Trial. LA executives, Simon Allen and Scott Hutchings gave an overview of the trial and in particular the water management. Nic Amos from Kalyx presented the data for the seed and herbage yields. Dr

LA executive committee members hosted a visit from the AgriFutures Pasture Seeds Advisory Panel on 10th July. The panel were interested see first hand the progress of the AgriFutures Funded Variety Trial near Keith and toured the PGG Wrightson facility where they learned about the seed cleaning process. LA thanks

Jessamy Bennett and Rebekah Allen From Kalyx.

Seed Production Results

Great day at the Variety Trial Field Day near Keith – 27th Feb. Almost 60 people attended to see how well the crop looks. After, speakers covered more stats from the trial, water unbundling, the area sown to certified seed this year and the latest satellite technology which can make

Over 40 people attended the “Bale hay in 7 days with stem moisture not dew” workshop at Brecon, just south of Keith on Friday 9th November. Representatives from Feedworks, Gazeeka, and Palmer Ag along with Scott Campbell, owner of Brecon explained how making hay can be much faster and produce