The 2020 growing season has kicked off and along with it, several innovative and interesting projects throughout the Liebe Group region, including The Gen Y Paddock Challenge.

The world wheat market is certainly at the whim of the weather right now with futures markets bouncing sharply off an eight-month low set early last week as concerns for the state European Union (EU) winter crop start to outweigh those of the Russian crop.

The Planfarm Academy, which started in 2018, was developed in Western Australia and is one of the country's leading agri-related learning platforms, providing a gateway to professional development for farm businesses and agribusiness professionals.

Despite local barley coming under pressure from China's boycott, the global barley balance sheet hasn't changed, in that the supply and demand ratio is still relatively even.

Gleaner has its 'shingle' out with a limited production run of S9 Series headers with a guaranteed delivery to Western Australian farmers by October.

AgImports director Tony Seabrook, York, has launched a new seed and fertiliser bin which doubles as a grain bin at harvest.

According to DE Engineers principal Kevin Prater "hundreds of farmers across WA have been using our standard silos to store granulated fertiliser for decades without any problems".

Many growers view harvester-integrated weed seed control technology as the ultimate step in further improving their harvest weed seed control (HWSC).

In one way or another we are all connected by food and every single one of us is heavily reliant on our agricultural supply chains to support our existence.

The system was touted as the biggest storm to hit WA in a decade at this time of the year and was similar to an event in June 2012, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said.