Strathalbyn, SA

Site Introduction

The BASF Innovation Site at Finniss is just around the corner from Strathalbyn and 73 kms from Adelaide city. Finniss is our flagship South Australian demonstration site for the 2021 cropping season. BASF is eager to showcase our new herbicides Voraxor and Luximax, along with the new herbicide tolerant canola variety, LibertyLink. Our wheat and barley demonstrations will compare BASF’s new herbicides with industry standards in various circumstances and in different herbicide mixes. We’ll also showcase BASF’s post-emergent herbicide Frequency and new cereal and canola fungicide.

Site at a glance - Wheat

Sowing date: 18 May 2021
Conditions at Sowing: Marginal moisture
Soil Type: Sandy loam
In-Season Rainfall: ~180ml 
Weed/Disease focus: Dock, capeweed, radish, ARG, clover, prickly lettuce and volunteer wheat.
Product focus: Voraxor, Luximax, Frequency, Opera and InVigor canola varieties, including Truflex and LibertyLink stacks (LT= Liberty + Triazine Tolerant & LR = Liberty + Truflex) with Podguard trait.

Site at a glance - Canola

Sowing date: 14 May 2021
Conditions at Sowing: Marginal moisture
Previous crop / stubble:  Scepter wheat stubble
Fertliser applied: 100 kg/ha DAP 18:20 (at sowing), 120 Kg/ha Urea, 100 Kg/ha SOA
Other treatments: Mouse-Off @ 2kg/ha – PSPE, 10 Kg/ha Slug Bait -  PSPE, Pyrinex Super @ 1.5L/ha – PSPE
Herbicide treatments: Overwatch 1.25L/ha + 3L/ha of Roundup + 45ml/ha of Hammer application IBS
Weed/Disease focus:  Annual ryegrass, volunteer wheat, crassula, dock, radish, prickly lettuce, capeweed, milk thistle and fumitory. The disease present is blackleg. 
Product focus: Liberty Herbicide, ILeVO seed dressing, InVigor Hybrids, Liberty canola and TruFlex canola

Site at a glance - Barley

Sowing date: 18 May 2021
Conditions at Sowing: Marginal moisture
Soil Type: Sandy loam
In-Season Rainfall: ~180ml 
Weed/Disease focus: Dock, capeweed, radish, ARG, clover, prickly lettuce and volunteer wheat.
Product focus: Voraxor