Victorian grain grower Ben Clark's property, Inverness, has received less than 40 millimetres of rain since the start February.
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00:00 So we had good so 30-40 mil back in around Christmas/New Year period
00:04 with our inter-row sowing and summer spraying we've tried to retain as much of that moisture
00:10 as we can and we had about an inch at the start of April and then we started sowing and we just
00:18 continued on as normal with our whole program and that moisture that we've retained we've managed
00:23 to get some crop up and then this nine mils we've had overnight will be fantastic it should help us
00:30 get the rest up and we've done soil tests now we know our soils are down on nutrients and that so
00:37 we've upped our fertilizer rate at sowing and then we've just finished three quarters of our top
00:42 dressing to try and with nitrogen and then we use granular locket sowing to try and yeah try
00:48 and get those levels back up so we can try and get the nutrient levels to a target yield that
00:55 we're aiming for because we know we've got to do that and yeah just a bit we don't need a lot more
01:01 follow-up rain this is a great time like this time of year all you're aiming to do is get the crop up
01:07 and try and get it through to the spring time and hopefully fingers crossed to get some spring rain
01:12 and to finish the crops yeah.
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