CROPPING

Slumped serradella creates harvest challenges

SERRADELLA has proven itself as a valuable legume pasture phase in cropping rotations and Merredin, WA, farmer Paul Madaffari has been growing it for years. But when he went into a paddock to harvest pods and seed this year, he ran into some difficulties.

Jill Griffiths
Slumped serradella creates harvest challenges

The season being what it was, the serradella was so thick and heavy it had all fallen over and Paul was having trouble lifting it up to get it into the front of the header. Department of Agriculture and...

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