🌧️With welcome autumn rains come uninvited #snail & #slug pests 🐌🐌
Manage populations NOW before they lay eggs⏰
Interrupt the lifecycle with #Axcela ® bait & enter for a chance to win a #HarleyDavidson ® Fat Boy® motorcycle🏍️ agspec.org/AXCELA
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The aphids and slugs will like this projection

🎬 GRDC VIDEO

Slugs have been a problem across the southern region. Join slug expert Dr Michael Nash whatbugsyou to discuss best management practices and the hunt for smarter slug control to help keep numbers at bay.

▶️ bit.ly/43Rpghl

#GRDCVideo

Digital ID | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

Get ready for the Albanese Government to begin the hard sell of their new government-controlled digital ID system.

Prepare for another round of 'safe, voluntary, and effective' as they attempt to harvest your biometric information…

Slay the Slugs workshop at Furner. Controls are applied based on conditions & monitoring data. There’s still time to register for Wolseley mackillopgroup.com.au

Second Slay the Slugs workshop today at Wolseley.

Key message make sure you get your bait out at the right time - when snails are moving around.

#MFMG

My favourite post in this great thread. Balanced plant nutrition can apply to many different contexts/outcomes…

6 paddocks x 2 transects x 10 mats = 120 opportunities to learn more about slug species, populations, behaviour, breeding and season influence - particularly for some newer areas. The beginning of ~3 years research… Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) GRDC Nick Zordan Tim Pohlner

Slay the Slugs Workshops, Wed 3 April, Furner & Wolseley. whatbugsyou Dr Michael Nash, applied invertebrate ecologist will present on strategies to manage threats from slugs & snails. Register mackillopgroup.com.au/events pic.twitter.com/fTXjw0n6zt

Great to be able to participate online too! :)

Pioneer Creek, home to an undescribed species of the trechine carabid genus Tropidotrechus, so far known from a single make specimen. It’s easy to think that we know Australian biodiversity, but there are more unknown than known species.

bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Victoria’s new habitat law fails to protect a tiny endangered species pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/victo…

Our new study showing that a fungal pathogen can enhance aphid fitness at low doses is now published!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps…

Excitement over insects is a common occurrence in our labs. A fresh project involves identifying #thrips , and as seasoned insect specialists, many of our team were keen to join in 🙌 👀

#CesarinAction

The ‘Alpine Ecology Course’, hosted by LaTrobe Uni’s Research Centre for Applied Alpine Ecology, has trained land managers since the late 1980s. This week, the brilliant geomorphologist Neville Rosengren reminded students that we have globally unique soil mountains in Oz

Today’ Shiraz samples. Bit of work to go.

13.4 Bu, 7.95 TA, 3.27 pH
13.2 Bu, 7.98 TA, 3.29 pH

🔥🚨New Product Release🚨🔥Kingsways new style triple roller has finally been delivered and put straight to work. Like everything lately the deadline for this project blew out but it was definitely worth the wait. Big thanks to the Kingway boys for getting this machine up and…

A national #biosecurity initiative announced by GRDC Chair John Woods at the #GRDCUpdates in Perth today is set to transform the effectiveness and responsiveness of Australia’s grains biosecurity system: bit.ly/3wDMZoH
NSW DPI DPIRD Broadacre - WA Grains & Livestock PIRSA DEECA Victoria Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Queensland

Full house at our Members' Only Trials Review Day.

Thank you to all our collaborators, sponsors, partners, presenters, our researchers and of course, you, our members!

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