Fields of gold bloom at Boorowa CSIRO Research Station

The Land

Canola crops across the state's south have drawn the attention of tourists and technical officers. CSIRO site manager Georgie Constance and Technical Services Officer Tom McLucas discuss their research at the Boorowa Agricultural Research Station.

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00:00This is a paddock of trifecta TT canola. So we utilize canola and weed as part of our rotation

00:06readying our paddocks for trials each year. We utilize the mixture of TT, conventional canola

00:13to assist in controlling weeds. Moving forward we'll be looking at using drones to sort of

00:18estimate biomass, predict yield damages from frost events or weather events like that and then also

00:24detect sort of damage that's caused by disease. Here we're sort of right on the edge of the main

00:29sort of cropping zone of New South Wales sort of further west you go the more into it you get.

00:33We're quite a mixed enterprise area here. I think it's really important that we sort of showcase that

00:38in this area as well like what can be done and that we sit in with sort of the local systems and

00:43going on like we utilize livestock and grazing in our rotation as well and that allows us to give

00:48sort of a broad range of knowledge and information that we can pass on to locals like this area that

00:55they can relate back to their own farm. We have a long-term trial here and there's quite a few

00:59different systems that we test out in that trial and it's produced like on farm scale so that we've

01:04got one hectare strips and it's produced at farm scale so it's sort of a bit more adaptable to

01:08farmers as opposed to small pot trials and I think with that some interesting results come out of

01:14that on sort of different varieties novel type varieties that we can grow in this environment

01:18that otherwise sort of wouldn't have been tried or has been tried and failed in the past and sort of

01:23we can adapt that and yes I guess give producers some different options moving forward the things

01:28that can be done properly. It can be done.

01:31It can be done.

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