Rain puts pressure on chemical supplies

By Megan Cechner
Updated March 3 2017 - 11:52am, first published 11:31am
YEALERING farmer Shane Hill has just started spraying after already receiving 170 millimetres of rain for the year, including 140-150mm in recent weeks. “I’ve done a few hundred hectares but a lot of it I haven’t checked because some of the paddocks have been a bit risky to drive around in the ute,” he said. Following a hefty knockdown program last year which included between four and five sprays
YEALERING farmer Shane Hill has just started spraying after already receiving 170 millimetres of rain for the year, including 140-150mm in recent weeks. “I’ve done a few hundred hectares but a lot of it I haven’t checked because some of the paddocks have been a bit risky to drive around in the ute,” he said. Following a hefty knockdown program last year which included between four and five sprays

HERBICIDE supplies are tight as growers start the first of their knockdown sprays following widespread rain across the State.

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