Barley windrowing to take off

Gregor Heard
Updated December 16 2020 - 10:24am, first published October 25 2016 - 6:00pm
Drone footage of barley windrowing on the Wundersitz family's 'Anna Binna' property near Maitland on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. Photo: Ben Wundersitz.
Drone footage of barley windrowing on the Wundersitz family's 'Anna Binna' property near Maitland on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula. Photo: Ben Wundersitz.

FOLLOWING the wet and cool finish to the growing season and significant instances of crop lodging, farmers are looking for an option to bring barley crops into maturation evenly.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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