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canola varie es for them to test. I thought I needed to know more about each<br />
variety, so I measured germina on rates, disease, the maturity, by coun ng the<br />
flowers per sq. metre when they first developed. When they harvested them, I did<br />
up all my informa on, added it to the harvest results and presented it to them.<br />
They were very pleased with my effort for them.<br />
FARMER SOWN CANOLA TRIALS AT SUNNYSIDE 1997<br />
Some weeks I would receive up to four phone calls from other growers around the<br />
state about how to grow canola.<br />
I did canola judging with someone from the Department in our area down as far as<br />
south Kojonup.<br />
In my farming, I would enter compe ons to learn. I would be able to compare<br />
myself against my farming peers and if I didn’t win I would see how the winner did it<br />
to improve my farming. One example of this was in the hogget ewe compe on. I<br />
liked what Ross Crosby did with his breeding which gave me a vision of where we<br />
should go in our sheep breeding.<br />
I always said if I won something it was a bonus. We did win many bonuses in our<br />
farming career. These came from The Nyabing and Katanning Shows in wool, sheep,<br />
crop and inven ons. Also, local wheat and barley compe ons, hogget ewe and<br />
wether trials.<br />
Canola trial plots at Sunnyside<br />
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