Becoming Decision Fit With Cam Nicholson

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 th…

Decision Fit: Trailer

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 seri…

Farmer in Focus: Terry Cox

BCG's Communications Officer Claudia sat down with her Dad, Terry for a conversation close to home. Terry is a fifth-generation farmer from Boigbeat.  On December 4, 2023, Terry sustained a serious hand injury during harvest. He reflects on what happened, how the farm has changed since, and how th…

Planning for Prosperity: Grain storage economics with Chris Warrick

“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.  Wh…

Planning for Prosperity: Mature fleabane control with Angus Butterfield

Controlling mature fleabane is tricky. With funding from the Hugh Williamson Foundation and the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund BCG’s Research Agronomist Angus Butterfield completed a research project on controlling mature fleabane.  The information shared is based on research conducte…

Planning for Prosperity: Paraquat and diquat implications and summer weed control tips with Professor Chris Preston

“I'm talking dry sowing because we've got a whole range of new pre-emergent herbicides, mostly from other groups, so group 13 and so on, and group 15, which have completely different properties to what we had 20 years ago.  “We've actually now got an opportunity where we can use that set of chemis…

Planning for Prosperity: Safety First: What’s the Rush with Warakirri’s Jono Robinson

“I find if you make the time, efficiencies come, if you're rushing around and always in a hurry to get to the next job, you find things break. Things happen, things go wrong, things get missed and that's when you lose time and then you're further behind.” Warakirri Farm Manager Jono Robinson.  In …

Planning for Prosperity: NetZero 2050: What farmers need to know with Professor Richard Eckard

“Because the fossil fuel sector has started reducing its emissions, the transport sector started reducing its emissions and agriculture stayed the same. Suddenly, this year, we're not 14 percent like we were last year, we're 17%. It's a percentage game. So what's going to happen over time is if agr…

Planning for Prosperity: IPM: will it work for you with Dr Paul Horne, Tim Pohlner and Casey Sim

“That price gap's a hurdle for a lot of farmers. I feel that I've probably got other farmers that would, but the majority of them would not be keen to spend that amount of money compared to what they could be doing with Trojan.    “Most farmers will want to see an economical return from that long …

Planning for Prosperity: You say La Nina, I say El Nino with Kate Finger

“This year, in terms of the IOD, it's just been sitting there in neutral. We've been just watching it, seeing if there's anything developing. At the moment, there's a slight hint that it's looking like it could go a little bit, negative IOD, which would actually increase our chances of some rainfal…