Agronomists, service providers and researchers in feedbase came together in Moama in October for the fourth workshop in a series provided by the Accelerating Change project. The series is designed to strengthen relationships across the dairy industry, enhancing collaboration and capability in all areas of feedbase, providing participants with a range of information they can use to support dairy farmers in a changing environment. The focus of the October workshop was to give p

Accelerating Change, in partnership with Agriculture Victoria, has developed a new fact sheet to assist you to understand how soil moisture monitoring could improve your irrigation management and crop or pasture performance. The factsheet, written by DEDJTR Irrigation Officer Rob O'Connor, who also manages the soil moisture monitoring sites for Accelerating Change, describes the types of soil moisture monitoring technologies available, how they work, and what data they can pr

The Accelerating Change Lucerne Masterclass drew a large crowd of dairy farmers, contractors and service providers to Scott Fitzgerald’s farm in Tongala last week. We saw some sunshine after a few days of heavy rain, making it the perfect opportunity to get into the paddock to have a look at how the lucerne was performing both above ground and how the crop was performing beneath the surface, with some soil pits. Many farmers in the Murray Dairy region have been using lucerne