Farmer in Focus: Terry Cox

Dr. Yolanda Plowman sat down with Dr. Corinne Celestina to discuss the findings from RiskWi$e's nitrogen (N) field trials. Corinne and Yolanda cover three main findings from the trials including the value of calculating your partial N balance. This is as easy as calculating N input as fertilizer or fixation (if you are growing a legume) and export as grain. This partial N balance can help you figure out whether you are losing or building N in your system. We hope you enjoy! To learn more head to: RiskWi$e | Birchip Cropping Group See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For Episode 2 of Decision Fit, Claudia returns to the kitchen table to chat with her family. In this episode she dives into the decision making processes that occur between Terry and Charlie and gains insights into how they approach machinery purchases, nitrogen decisions and communication methods. We hope you enjoy! To learn more head to: RiskWi$e | Birchip Cropping Group See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For Episode 1 of Decision Fit, Dr. Yolanda Plowman has a chat with farmer and farm advisor Cam Nicholson to discuss what it means to be a good decision maker, how you can train your decision-making skills, and what role biases and rules of thumb play in all of this. Cam also shares insights into the value of new technology and the importance of having business partners that think differently to one another. We hope you enjoy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Decision Fit! The Birchip Cropping Group is launching a new podcast series exploring the thinking behind on-farm decision making. We will be interviewing farmers, researchers and industry experts to talk about decision making in the face of risk and uncertainty in agriculture. This series is made possible by RiskWi$e, a CSIRO led and GRDC funded project. Learn more about RiskWi$e here: RiskWi$e | Birchip Cropping Group. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“A lot of us at harvest, when pressure's on and we're trying to get more harvest hours in a day, more grain in per day, if we're limited by a grain moisture, we go and look at, I'll get a contract harvester in, I'll buy a bigger header next year, I'll go to a second or a third header next year. What if we could manage moisture in grain do it with less headers? Because we get more hours in a day. “So we can start harvest a few hours earlier or run it a few hours later or those overcast days where the moisture is just sitting, a percent above our deliverable. What if we could run our headers on those days and not have as much infrastructure, capital tied up in harvest equipment aeration cooling to blend moisture in storage. “So then, all of a sudden, we get grain storage paying itself with harvest logistics.” Chris Warrick In the final episode of the series Planning for Prosperity, BCG’s Janine Batters chats with grain storage expert Chris Warrick about the economics of grain storage and some of the key things to consider before investing in grain storage. The conversation covers aeration cooling, cone and falt bottom silos, grain sheds, bunkers, grain bags, logistics and people management.” This podcast is sponsored by Action Steel. Visit https://www.actionsteel.com.au/ today For more information on chemical storage visit: https://www.actionsteel.com.au/downloads/standard-chemical-sheds-brochure-size-price-guide/ Resources Call 1800 WEEVIL (1800 933 845) Grain Storage GrowNote manual including economics https://storedgrain.com.au/grdc-grownotes-grain-storage/ Research report by the Kondinin Group on ground level storage options https://storedgrain.com.au/ground-level-grain-storage-2024/ Recent grower examples https://groundcover.grdc.com.au/farm-business/grain-storage/grain-storage-keeps-harvest-operations-on-a-roll https://groundcover.grdc.com.au/farm-business/grain-storage/the-automatic-advantage-of-grain-cooling