Armed with up-to-date growing information, Koshihikari is producing great results in the Murray Valley.

Innovative paddock preparation in a wet year combined with conventional aerial sowing ensures rice is sown on time.

Far north Queensland rice growers share their experience of growing top yielding rice in the tropics. 

This edition is the very first to be published in a digital format. The Farmers’ Newsletter has been a prominent publication for irrigators of the southern Murray–Darling Basin since the 1940s, keeping them up to date with new research and cutting-edge technology.

Irrigation water was scarce last season so Les Gillespie drill sowed Langi into fallow moisture to limit his crop inputs including water until the seasonal outlook improved.

When Clinton Brill’s great grandfather started growing rice in 1924, he would have been mad to think that rice could yield 15 t/ha. But Clinton is one of a number of growers who achieved a rice yield of 15 t/ha or more in the 2015-16 season.

Rob believes in working towards rotations that are agronomically sound & make the best use of water available. In the 2015-16 season, Rob planted rice straight into his canola stubble, two days after the canola crop harvest was complete in November.

This drill sown Reiziq(PBR) crop used 1.2 ML/ha less than an adjoining dry broadcast crop with the same yields & soil type but there are also other advantages to drill sowing.

A snapshot of seven growers in the Murray and Murrumbidgee valleys. This publication includes case studies on a range of irrigation layouts in action.

Rice Extension followed the Bryce Family during CY14 where they were able to achieve over 1 T/ML with a total yield of more that 12.6 T/ha in drill sown crop.