Dookie grower has a crack at Corack

摘要

Grain grower Ross Geddes saw enough promise in a small trial with new wheat variety Corack that he took the plunge in this year's planting by increasing from 1 Oha to 242ha - now all he needs is some rain. Dookie farmer Ross Geddes knows he could havebeen just as successful in the circus as he is on his cropping and crossbred lamb property. Because like most grain producers these days so much of his life is spent juggling. If it's not the weather, it's the varieties he plants. Then he has to managethe difference between yield and protein, before his assistant (agronomist Bruce Larcombe from IK Caldwell) throws a few more balls into the air with a planting strategy and varietal selection. At which point Ross has to also assess the risk with his perennial foes stripe rust and, in his thickened wheat, yellow spot fever - not to mention the rising issue of resistance.