AUSSIE AGRI SOLUTIONS PTY LTD ABN 74 686 064 013
Quality agricultural solutions for your farm needs.
AUSSIE AGRI SOLUTIONS PTY LTD ABN 74 686 064 013
Quality agricultural solutions for your farm needs.
At Aussie Agri Solutions, our mission is to provide exceptional agricultural services that enhance productivity and sustainability. With over 30 years of hands-on experience in cotton farming and vineyards, our team understands the unique challenges face by the growers and we are dedicated to supporting local farmers and businesses.
Removing debris before planting helps ensure proper soil aeration and allows for easier planting and cultivation.
Methods of Stick Picking:
Hand Raking, Tractor-Mounted Rakes, Loader Buckets: Tractors with loader buckets can be used to pick up larger branches and logs.
Planting
Cotton seed is planted in the spring as soon as the soil is warm enough to be sure of satisfactory seed germination and crop establishment. The soil is warm enough when the temperature reaches 14 degrees Celsius at a depth of 10 cm for at least three days in a row.
Australian irrigated lint yields are now the highest of any major cotton producing country in the world, being about three times the world average. Most of the irrigation is done via syphoning the water from the channel on to the rows in 8 to 12 or 24 hr cycle or through the channel banks, with “gates " to better control water flow into furrows. About two months after planting, flower buds appear on the cotton plants. In another three weeks, the blossoms open. Their petals change from creamy white to yellow, then pink and finally, dark red. After three days, they wither and fall, leaving green pods which are called cotton bolls.
Inside the boll, which is shaped like a tiny football, moist fibers grow and push out from the newly formed seeds. As the boll ripens, it turns brown. The fibers continue to expand under the warm sun. Finally, they split the boll apart and the fluffy cotton bursts forth looking like white cotton candy.
The crop is harvested by machines, either a Picker or a Stripper.
Cotton Pickers have spindles that pick (twist) the cotton seed from the burrs that are attached to plants’ stems. Doffers then remove the cotton seed from the spindles and knock the seed into the conveying system.
Cotton Stripers have rollers or brushes that dislodge the entire boll from the plant, including leaves and stems.
All harvesting systems use air to convey and elevate the cotton seed into a module-building mechanism that roll the cotton into a round shape(bale)
Once the bale is formed, it's covered in a purpose-made plastic wrap, which helps to protect the cotton and maintain its shape. The finished bale is then ejected from the harvester.
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Pruning and training are performed in order to optimize the production potential of the grape vine. Your objective is to maintain a balance between vegetative growth and fruiting.
Each year the shoots, or canes, that grow vertically are pruned back to form spurs At each spur choose the best or lowest cane and cut it back to two buds
The aim is to identify 2 strong canes to be left for the following year’s crop.
Cut the ends of these long fruiting canes so they reach about halfway along the adjacent vine. The end of the cane might need to be tied to the wire.
Aim for pruned canes to be about a hand's width apart along the permanent branch of each vine.
De-suckering is the viticultural practice of removing unwanted young shoots
Typically, the shoots removed are either on the trunk or in the head of the vine, and grow in spring from buds surviving in the old wood. These shoots are termed water shoots and for the majority of vine varieties have no bunches of grapes.
The work is relatively tiresome, as for many vineyards the shoots can be near the ground.
Water shoot, is a shoot that arises from the wood of the vine, not from buds left at pruning. In fact they mostly arise from basal buds embedded in the wood and are generally not fruitful. Suckers are a type of water shoot which arise at the base of the trunk at or below soil level
Controlling the size and structure of the vine's foliage to optimize sunlight exposure and air circulation, which helps with disease prevention and fruit ripening.
Mechanical harvesting substantially brings down the cost of getting the grapes from the vineyard to the winery. However the control mechanical harvesters lack is in deciding what to pick (dirt, leaves, bird poop, insects, eggs, wood, etc.).
Adjusting the parameters on those beater bars – height, speed, oscillations – helps, but the machine can’t choose only perfect ripe clusters and leave a second crop or moldy grapes behind the way a trained team can.