Paddock Chat
Local knowledge from a paddock near you. Paddock Chat is a West Midlands Group Original Podcast created to support local growers and help solve farming challenges without having to leave the paddock. The West Midlands Group is a not-for-profit grower group located in Dandaragan, two hours North East of Perth.
Paddock Chat
To Chickpea, or not to Chickpea - PART 1
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With the high cost of crop input prices weighing on most farmers minds at present, we put the focus on chickpea this week as a potential high value legume option for the coming season.
Over the last three years, West Midlands Group trials have found that chickpea have yielded consistently and have had a competitive Gross Margin in our region despite not being a traditional chickpea growing area.
In this episode, Nathan Craig (WMG Executive Officer) sat down with Mark Seymour & Harmohinder Dhammu from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, to answer the two most asked questions about chickpeas:
- How well do they yield across WA
- What are the weed control options now available to keep the crop clean?
This conversation covered a lot of good information and so it will be a two-part episode. Be sure to download and listen in to part 2 which is available right now:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1067260/10154568
*Harmohinder Dhammu would like to note that at 17:13 of this episode, he should have said "susceptible ryegrass" rather than "resistant ryegrass".