CROPPING

Cool heads needed to assess frosted crops

Looking back on a tough time can reveal insights to guide future situations.

Jill Griffiths

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The first reaction croppers often have when hit by frost, or any other calamity for that matter, is despair and then they want to leap into action.
 
This was the observation Esperance, Western Australia-based farm management consultant Ben Curtis, Farmanco, made last year after frosts. The lessons from that experience are worth remembering, Ben said.
 
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The DPIRD frost evaluation guide for cereals can be found here

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