subject: Australian farmers have been at the mercy of the El Nino effect [print this page] Australian farmers have been at the mercy of the El Nino effect
Copyright (c) 2010 Wayne PaddisonThere is an ever-growing threat on the horizon that of grain pests to Phosphines now at 48% and growing across most states in Australia we are simply using far to many applications to kill insects simply because as resistance grows we need more and more applications of the pesticide to achieve a result (much like giving our children antibiotics to the point were the drugs become less effective because of overuse) it is the same with Phosphine application overuse is creating resistance1. Areas that were once safe farming areas in Australia have in most cases, been reduced to marginal cropping areas at best. Farmers have been forced to face change in order to survive our ever changing seasons. As a farming nation we have all seen major changes in the way our crops are grown in Australia.2. Our growers have embraced change in the areas of GPS systems, smarter more cost effective methods of growing crops, becoming moisture managers (who essentially farm moisture from direct drilling), to stubble mulching. Gone are days of endlessly fallowing our paddocks to prepare a seed bed, we have found this technique to be a waste of sub soil moisture.3. Whilst as a Australian grain producing community we have all seen change in preparing, sowing and stripping our crops. Equally we have seen little or no change in the way we store our crops! We have headers that are capable of stripping up to 100 hectares of crop a day. Most producers find it necessary to travel huge distances from the paddock to the Bulk head, which can mean the most valuable asset, the header itself, can lay idle waiting for the trucks to return before the process of getting the harvest off can resume.4. Farmers are spending huge amounts of money on chaser bins, grain bags, additional field bins, and trucks to keep their headers at capacity. Whilst as a nation of growers we have all embraced change in order to survive seasonal conditions, there has been little change in the way we store grain. And little wonder with the cost of gas tight sealed upright storage out of the reach of most grain growers! 5. There is an ever-growing threat on the horizon! Grain pests to Phosphines is now at 48% and growing across most states in Australia, we are simply using far too many applications to kill insects! Simply, as resistance grows we need more and more applications of the pesticide to achieve a result. (Much like giving our children antibiotics to the point where the drugs become less effective because of overuse) it is the same with Phosphine application overuse is creating resistance.In Australia, a safe temporary storage (on-site) in the form of a grain bunker has moved forward and is a real solution for farmers now and in the future!
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