Clearfield® Canola Challenge

The Clearfield Canola Challenge is a valuable tool for growers to compare weed control and gross margins of Clearfield canola with other herbicide tolerant canola systems.

Clearfield canola yield challenge demonstrates the high gross margin and weed control available in canola growing areas of Australia. Participants conducted a side by side large scale paddock demonstration and measured results with the header. Most growers who have participated are now trying to grow more Clearfield Canola in their rotations without restricting future herbicide options.

Average Gross Margin increase over TT in 2010 was $320.34

• Dec. 10 2010

  

  Murray Witcombe, Inverleigh - Winner VIC

  Murray Witcombe is no stranger to Clearfield canola, but that didn’t stop him entering the recent Clearfield Challenge to really see what it could do. Murray, from Inverleigh, near Geelong, liked what he’d seen in his previous two years of sowing the hybrid crop and wanted to know how it would stack up in a tightly regulated and searching trial.

  He sowed Pioneer 45Y82 and the same amount of ground to Hyola 751TT. And he was pleased with what he saw.

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• Dec. 10 2010

  

  Rick & Mike Swarbrick - Winner WA

  Despite a very tough season in Western Australia, one farmer has been delighted with his first foray into Clearfield® canola.

  Rick Swarbrick and son Mike farm 1600 hectares at Gairdner, about 50km south-east of Jerramungup.They entered the Clearfield Canola Challenge to compare the local gross margins of Clearfield and Triazine Tolerant (TT) canola in WA.

  The Swarbrick’s Challenge was between Pioneer Clearfield 45Y82 and the TT Tawriffic, each planted on a minimum 12 ha’s by the grower.

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• Dec. 10 2010

  

  Jim Cronin, Landmark agronomist, Forbes

  It’s all down to the dollars. That’s the bottom line when it comes to canola options, according to Landmark agronomist Jim Cronin, of Forbes.

  Jim, who also contracts to Mercer Creese Farming to run 2250ha under crop, has been pushing Clearfield Canola for two years now, mainly because of its much better yield potential when compared with TT varieties.

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• Apr. 13 2011

  

  Neil Mattiske, Forbes, NSW

  When it comes to a choice between a shorter crop and higher yield, Neil Mattiske, of Forbes, knows where he stands.
  
  Neil has 1500ha under crop, 530ha of which is canola.  Last year was the first time he had sown Clearfield, sowing Pioneer 46Y78 on 114ha. It may have cost more money to put in, but Neil believes he has seen real benefits.

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• Dec. 10 2010

  

  Scott Mattiske, Forbes, NSW

  Even windrowing at night, Scott has only been able to do about 2km/h, simply because the hybrid is so bulky.  What’s more, he could only take half a cut at a time for the same reason.

  “It has unbelievable vigour,” he said.

  Scott paid $39.20/ha for the Clearfield seed (against $24/ha for Cobbler TT) and admits he was taken aback at the price, but it did produce a very high crop (6 to 7 feet).

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• Dec. 10 2010

  

  Nick Ennis, Howlong, NSW

  Standing two metres high and with stalks like tree trunks, Clearfield canola has emerged as the stand-out hybrid in a crop trial conducted at a number of sites around Victoria and southern NSW.

  Several local growers in the saturated country around Albury took part in BASF’s Clearfield Canola Challenge, to grow the highest gross margin Pioneer Clearfield hybrid canola crop possible.

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• Dec. 10 2010

  

  Duncan Williams, Forbes NSW

  As far as Duncan Williams is concerned, Pioneer’s 46Y78 canola is a winner -literally!

  Duncan took the honours in one of the local cropping competitions around Forbes last year with one of his crops of Pioneer 46Y78 that the judges estimated would yield 3.2 tonnes per hectare.

  “These hybrids are bloody big crops,” Duncan said. “The windrowing contractor couldn't see ahead of himself.

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