Grower & GrainGrowers’ Director, Ashleigh Brooks, touches on the the first of three priority areas in GrainGrowers’ federal election priorities, ‘Making stronger grain regions’ and how the election represents a unique opportunity to deliver essential investment to regional

Who wants Oat Cookies!!! We're optimising workflow and stability issues of Oat flour for collaborative research Curtin University GRDC InterGrain #insideOats

Spring #Oats vs. winter wheat!! How early we can safely sow oats in WA to take advantage of improved floreat frost here? Note lower stem frost risk in WA vs. East Coast and hopefully give more farming systems options. #phenologyisfun

Was it tasty Allan Rattey? 🤪 #phenologyisfun

Oats are Just Right for early sowing into deep moisture. No rain in sight, Christopher Fuller put #Oat seed down fert tube ~2 weeks ago near Wagga. Happy days!!! Initial research with CSIRO + DPIRD for WA sand, but works in soil East Coast too 😁

Depth limit depends on seed size + quality, soil temp, and how heavy soil is. We've had no issues at 4" (100mm) in loamy sand for high-quality seed in April/May for #Oats.

Goldie, Koala seed on farm this year; so robust test. Minnie next year. GRDC National Variety Trials (NVT) shows yield upside+ strong milling grain package, especially Goldie. Link of lignin with feed value needs retesting and investment. Current info is old from small dataset (varieties and sites).

1st sowing looks great!!! Powering ahead with early start enabled by deep sowing

It's a conspiracy!!! No #Oat milk APBC2025 conference 🥺😅 But thxs for coffee AGT

It's that sort of night....

Right back at Ya, Brad. I'm 80klm north of Karratha

Yes, we definitely need a trial site in that area 👌 I'm sure it'd be different Env and suited for future proofing research into heat tolerance

3 amazing weeks camping thru Nth WA. Stunning scenery!!! Sunset and Stairway to Moon at Broome, Horizontal Falls. Plus Cygnet Bay, part of Gibb River Rd, Crocs at Windjana Gorge, 80 Mile etc. 7400klm, so 20klm detour to see Minnie #Oats worthy it!!

Across years and sites, Goldie and Minnie #Oats hold maturity well from early (often deep) sowing after 10th April in WA. GRDC National Variety Trials (NVT) today. Flag leaf and great biomass vs dry sown wheat in back. But sowing earlier than 12-hour day needs testing.

Oops. Correction. Emergence for Oats before 12-hour day *ENDS* needs testing!!! That's ~4th-10th April, depending on latitude. Thxs

Interaction of #Oats sowing depth and pre-Em safety is exciting research GRDC in WA Facey Group and NSW. Sowing #Oats deeper as mesocotyl+coleoptile length is >110mm from WA 2023, and utilised Marrar 2025 for deep sowing late April InterGrain breeding trials.

This is probably too late to graze. The key to grazing #Oats needs research, as per Wheat/Canola farming systems investment. Some research has shown early April sowing clip graze at stem elongation appears ok + delay phenology, if enough rain and N added back in.

On my way AFIA on GC. No #Oats here, but thanks Qantas pilot QF934 for heads up when we'd fly over Kati Thanda Lake Eyre. Quite spectacular 👌 and vegetation change with water is amazing 👍🏻