Rawlinson & Brown's agronomists are part of the Active Agronomy support network. This network of CRT agronomists is kept up-to-date with the latest products and farming techniques. This ensures that we can help you quickly adapt to the latest use patterns and market requirements, keeping your operation efficient and profitable.
CROPPING
Our agronomists will provide on farm advice for all your cropping needs. This includes:
- Crop monitoring
- Weed identification
- Insect threshold analysis
- Disease assessments
- Crop rotation and paddock planning
- Chemical and fertiliser recommendations; and
- Whole farm planning
Our experienced team can provide you with a range of cropping solutions, from dryland and irrigation, to summer and winter production.
BUDGETING
To fail to plan, is a plan to fail.We will assist you with your budgeting requirements, to ensure that your farm business remains viable and sustainable. This advice includes:
- Pre-season meetings with market outlook discussions
- Crop gross margin budgeting
- Back Paddock Software to plan all aspects of your operation
- Water budgeting
- Nutrient budgeting
- CRT finance options
- Yield estimations for harvest and insurance needs
FERTILISERSCROPPING
Rawlinson & Brown use specialised products from reputable suppliers to help push your production to its maximum sustainable level. Our agronomists can advise you about the most economical and best suited product for the situation. Our range of diagnostic, planning and technical services helps clients improve the productivity of their summer and winter broadacre crops.
Loads of granular fertiliser can be delivered on farm, with extremely competitive freight options direct from port. Alternatively, pickup can be arranged from local fertiliser depots. These depots are useful when custom blends are required, or smaller quantities of fertiliser are needed.
FOLIAR FERTILISERSIndustry trends have seen a rise in the usage of foliar fertilisers. Plant Tissue and Sap tests allow us to accurately detect plant nutrient deficiencies including both macro and micro nutrients. A foliar spray allows you to correct deficiencies, or enhance crop quality at different plant stages. Liquid fertilisers offer different use patterns to traditional granular fertilisers, and are more efficient in certain situations.
Rawlinson & Brown source quality foliar fertilisers from Agrichem, Growforce, Incitec Pivot and Nipro. We also bulk store Easy N, which is a liquid nitrogen equivalent of urea, and Easy NP, a liquid MAP style formulation. Easy N and Easy NP can be picked up at our shop in 1000 litre shuttles, or via bulk tanker loads direct on farm into suitable storage.
LIME & GYPSUMLime is sourced from Omya Australia. Omya's Superfine Limestone F70 has long been recognised as the agricultural lime to which others are compared. It is renowned for its high purity of calcium carbonate, its consistency, lack of contamination and guaranteed fineness. Product specifications can be sourced from Rawlinson & Brown.
Gypsum is sourced from Riverina Gypsum Balranald. It is the major commercial form of calcium sulphate and is used locally by farmers as a soil conditioner.
Rawlinson & Brown can arrange transport for on-farm loads of lime and gypsum direct from suppliers. There is no local bulk pickup currently available.
SOIL TESTINGRawlinson & Brown provides a soil testing service that has access to a number of reputable independent laboratories. These results aid our agronomists in giving accurate recommendations for your fertiliser requirements. GPS units allow us to specifically target certain paddock areas, or take us back to the exact location for follow up tests in proceeding years.
Discuss your soil testing requirements with one of our agronomist, as we have over 20 types of tests to choose from. Our soil testing service includes collection of the sample, express postage to the laboratory, interpretation of results, a printout for your records, and a recommendation for your paddock.
Plant and water testing services are also available.
SPREADINGRawlinson & Brown can arrange for your granular fertiliser, lime or gypsum to be spread. We have various local spreading contacts, and will liaise with them to ensure the job is carried out correctly and on time. Variable rate prescriptions for you paddock can also be produced, and for further information see the Precision Agriculture section of this website.
