March 18, 2013
The rain may have come at the right time for local peanut crops but it also brought a headache for growers … the need to spray.
Anyone out and about anywhere around Kingaroy or Kumbia during the past week would have seen cropdusters hard at work spraying paddocks with fungicide.
All this made the latest Burnett Cropping Update, held at the Redvale Research Station in Kingaroy today, very relevant.
BGA Agriservices, in conjunction with the Grains Research and Development Corporation, demonstrated how to correctly set up boom sprayers and what nozzles to choose for effective delivery.
There was also a discussion about peanut fungicide strategies and a demonstration of peanut spraying using different nozzles and water volumes.
The 35 growers in attendance also had the opportunity to inspect peanut crops which had been treated using different fungicide strategies.
The field day was was part of the GRDC Grower Solutions Group Project.
