April 2021: Accu-spread and more served up at Gate 2Plate

This year’s Harvey Beef Gate2Plate Challenge field day was a huge success and OHCG activities were featured in a number of sessions.  In the sponsors stands Sayah (with brother Sean's help – thanks Sean) set up an interactive display with the catchment model resulting in a few people getting a bit wet while learning about catchment management and feral/native animals.  Dave Rogers from DPIRD gave a presentation on results from the uPtake trials.  At the end of the day, attendees enjoyed some refreshments while viewing and participating in an Accuspread demonstration.  There was a lot of interest in the pattern produced by the 2 different spreaders and how machines can be adjusted/modified to get a better result.  On the school's challenge day, Bruce gave a presentation using a practical demonstration model developed by David Weaver (DPIRD).   Students participated by adding phosphorous to different soils to see the relationship between soil PBI, phosphorous retention and yield.  Well done to the Gate2Plate committee for organizing such a fantastic event