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Shared Ag Solutions by BCG

This show is for those curious to hear the latest news and agricultural research and how to apply it on-farm to improve profitability, decision making, safety, community development and overall wellbeing. BCG Podcast is focused on the listener"s needs with BCG staff and renowned agricultural scientists unpacking growers" agronomic and business challenges for the fortnight. For more information, please visit https://www.bcg.org.au/podcasts/.

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16:53

Nitrogen, What's Next? With Dr. Corinne Celestina

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2026/10/01

Dr. Yolanda Plowman sat down with Dr. Corinne Celestina to discuss the findings from RiskWi$e's nitrogen (N) field trials. Corinne and Yolanda cover three main findings from the trials including the value of calculating your partial N balance. This is as easy as calculating N input as fertilizer or fixation (if you are growing a legume) and export as grain. This partial N balance can help you figure out whether you are losing or building N in your system. We hope you enjoy! To learn more head to:

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27:27

The Coxes: On Farm Influencers

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2026/09/23

For Episode 2 of Decision Fit, Claudia returns to the kitchen table to chat with her family. In this episode she dives into the decision making processes that occur between Terry and Charlie and gains insights into how they approach machinery purchases, nitrogen decisions and communication methods. We hope you enjoy! To learn more head to: RiskWi$e | Birchip Cropping GroupSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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28:10

Farmer in Focus: Terry Cox

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2026/04/22

BCG's Communications Officer Claudia sat down with her Dad, Terry for a conversation close to home. Terry is a fifth-generation farmer from Boigbeat. On December 4, 2023, Terry sustained a serious hand injury during harvest. He reflects on what happened, how the farm has changed since, and how the accident has shaped Terry’s outlook on the future and retirement.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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14:28

Planning for Prosperity: Mature fleabane control with...

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2024/11/26

Controlling mature fleabane is tricky. With funding from the Hugh Williamson Foundation and the Australian Government's Future Drought Fund BCG’s Research Agronomist Angus Butterfield completed a research project on controlling mature fleabane. The information shared is based on research conducted for the purpose of exploring flea bank control options and should not be considered direct advice. Please note, some herbicide rates and applications discussed may not align with registered labour

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31:30

Planning for Prosperity: Paraquat and diquat...

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2024/11/25

“I'm talking dry sowing because we've got a whole range of new pre-emergent herbicides, mostly from other groups, so group 13 and so on, and group 15, which have completely different properties to what we had 20 years ago. “We've actually now got an opportunity where we can use that set of chemistry to deal with our ryegrass issues and add to that our crop competition from getting our crop in early in the season. So it's just thinking, I think, about the whole system and saying, well, instead of

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19:51

Planning for Prosperity: Safety First: What’s the...

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2024/11/17

“I find if you make the time, efficiencies come, if you're rushing around and always in a hurry to get to the next job, you find things break. Things happen, things go wrong, things get missed and that's when you lose time and then you're further behind.” Warakirri Farm Manager Jono Robinson. In the fifth episode BCG’s Janine Batters chats with Warakirri Farm Manager Jono Robinson. The conversation covers why the corporate farm always puts safety first, what structures and procedures the team have

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48:50

Planning for Prosperity: NetZero 2050: What farmers...

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2024/11/03

“Because the fossil fuel sector has started reducing its emissions, the transport sector started reducing its emissions and agriculture stayed the same. Suddenly, this year, we're not 14 percent like we were last year, we're 17%. It's a percentage game. So what's going to happen over time is if agriculture does nothing, we'll become the only sector of greenhouse gas emissions while all the other sectors go to zero.” Professor Richard Eckard. In the fourth episode of our series Planning for

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26:52

On the Horizon: Farm Tech - Batching machines with...

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2024/09/01

“Just put all your chemical in as per order. The important thing is to give it the granules time to dissolve, get into the solution. “we've got scales so we can measure all the chemicals in, especially your bulk chemicals out of shuttles. “We need to know the specific density of each chemical which is all different so you need to know that before you're doing it. I've used the scales and I also put a mark on the shuttle to know that I'm getting the right volume. Using the scales properly I think

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30:11

Planning for Profit: Soil health with Dr Rob Norton

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2024/02/28

“One of the issues with P allocation on, say, lentils or chickpeas is that they're not that responsive in terms of yield, but they do respond, in terms of nitrogen fixation. So phosphorus will stimulate growth, which stimulates nitrogen fixation. So your pulses, and even some of the medic pastures and vetch, for example, they're usually the first things we cut phosphorus off, in our crop budget. But in fact, what happens is, by doing that, you actually reduce some of the nitrogen input from the

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31:06

Planning for Profit: Spot spraying AI technology with...

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2024/02/21

“…he's got individual nozzle controls, so Hawkeye, he's only spot spraying. That's all he uses the machine for. He's got a few sprayers. This is just his spot sprayer and he thinks that there is no other way to spray. He said he kicks back, watching the footy on his iPad. He's got his height controller controlling the boom. He's got his weed detect turning on and spot spraying his weeds and that's probably the best case scenario.”In the seventh episode of our eight-part Planning for Profit series

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33:22

Planning for Profit: Nitrogen planning with Professor...

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2024/02/14

“So say 2022, where we had good starting soil water, a very good timing of the break, a very positive forecast, then Yield Profit was really gung-ho and put on by, I think it was 150 kilograms of nitrogen Curyo, which is, well, very few farmers are going to do that commercially, that's over 300 kilo's per hectare of urea, whereas the nitrogen bank treatment tends to only put on about 60, or thereabouts, kilograms per hectare of nitrogen, so about 130 kilos of urea, pretty much year in, year out,

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39:33

Planning for Profit: Agronomic planning with Rik Maatman

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2024/01/31

“So once you've had a reasonable population that's got through, it's just taken moisture off the predominant crop, which in this case, we're talking about wheat, and that yield loss, let's call it, uh, 400 kilos at a, you know, 300 gross value per ton. There's a big input there that they could have factored in. He's talking 120 gross return for a 30 input. It's just such a smart move. And there was a reason why we put it in the plan.” In the fifth episode of our eight-part Planning for Profit series

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23:59

Planning for Profit: Drought proofing with Fiona Best

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2024/01/17

“It's not something that you implement and then you're finished with. You have to keep thinking about it… keep talking about it. It's a marathon, not a sprint, and you probably are going to have to change the tactics along the way. It's about that re-evaluation process,” - BCG CEO Fiona Best. In the fourth episode of our eight-part Planning for Profit series we caught up with BCG's Fiona Best to learn how we can better prepare our farm business (and ourselves) for the next inevitable drought. About

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39:36

Planning for Profit and worklife balance with Carmen...

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2024/01/03

“In terms of profitability and working more hours to make more profit. The first thing I tell people is at what point do you reach maximum? You max out pretty quickly because you can only work a certain number of days in a row at a certain number of hours before you just collapse from physical exhaustion. So you reach maximum pretty quickly. Now, if you're talking about making good decisions, you don't max out. And that essentially is where you make more money.” Is there such a thing as work-life

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33:43

Planning for Profit: How to attract and retain good...

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2023/12/20

Are you focusing on what you need as a business in terms of labour? Do you know specifically what tasks a prospective employee might be undertaking and have you thought about how much farm culture can affect your staff and long-term profitability? In this podcast we caught up with people and safety expert Denise McLellan who shares her insights on how to attract and retain good employees and how they directly relate to running a profitable business. https://denisemclellan.com.au/resources You can

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33:38

Planning for Profit: Farming for profit with Daniel...

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2023/12/06

Farming and Profit: While we know the weather plays a huge role in whether a season comes off or not, knowing where your money goes and why, as well as where you want your farming business to be in five, ten years, is crucial in running a profitable farm business. This is the first episode in an eight part series “Planning for Profit”, featuring Daniel Toohey, a Farm Business Advisor at Planfarm Advisory, who uses his wealth of knowledge and experience to provide strategic guidance and support to

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2:08

Trailer

Shared Ag Solutions by BCG ·

2023/12/04

Welcome to the Shared Ag Solutions podcast by BCG, with your host Janine Batters. Janine is a partner in a mixed farming operation in the northern Wimmera and looks after media and communications at BCG. She has been busy revamping the BCG podcast and is excited to present a new, eight part series: Planning for profit. Janine will be talking with farmers, researchers and experts in their field, covering topics such as how to organise your farm for profit AND work/life balance, how to attract good

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14:39

Incorporating standing crop pasture rotations into...

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2023/09/27

Grain paddock feed and timing operations to make the best use of that feed are key determinants for the production and profitability of a livestock enterprise. This podcast explores standing crops within a pasture rotation, and we hear from local farmer Bailey Petering and how he implements grazing of standing crops within his families mixed farming business. This project is funded by the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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21:03

Meet the Team: Senior Manager – Corporate and...

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2022/12/19

“It's important to stop and take stock of where you are and what you're doing. It's easy to become consumed by a task or in a series of events.” BCG Senior Manager – Corporate and Business Services Vin Delahunty on how he stays grounded and focussed on his goals. He also shares his passions, and why, as a highly skilled ag professional, he chooses to work at BCG.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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24:19

Meet the Team: Genevieve Clarke

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2022/10/04

BCG Research and Extension Officer Genevieve Clarke shares why she loves long distance running and what spurs her on to complete the last few kilometers, the real reason she loves to travel and the unexpected profession that inspires her to be the best version of herself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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