Lower Blackwood LCDC | Will McGirr | Activity https://lowerblackwood.com.au/members/will/activity/ Activity feed for Will McGirr. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:20:17 +0800 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.21.0 en-AU 30 hourly 2 6e0a0cb2a00dce93fdedc2681dfed67b Will McGirr posted an update in the group Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures: Advice on Sweet Vernal GrassI have some paddocks with […] https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/5454/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:02:57 +0800 Advice on Sweet Vernal Grass

I have some paddocks with a serious infestation of sweet vernal grass. How do i displace it without using herbicide?

]]> 1 a9c86dfbd0326faa1fb512bf3995422a Will McGirr posted a new activity comment https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/4313/#acomment-4334 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:24:22 +0800 @Mark Tupman thanks Mark

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I have a question about fertiliser and seeding. Is it better to apply fertiliser together with the seed, or is it better to apply post-emergence?

]]> 4e331875c8cfc2deeb6338467710dbe9 Will McGirr posted a new activity comment https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/4320/#acomment-4322 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 05:00:38 +0800 @Lower Blackwood LCDC will it be accredited?

In reply to - Will McGirr posted an update in the group Soil Secrets

Question/ Recommendation: could any one recommend a good soil course / agronomy course to do in WA or online? One that has regenerative principles included

thanks

]]> 35b6bb55ba248ac8963a554b586ee762 Will McGirr posted an update in the group Soil Secrets: Question/ Recommendation: could any one recommend a […] https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/4320/ Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:42:35 +0800 Question/ Recommendation: could any one recommend a good soil course / agronomy course to do in WA or online? One that has regenerative principles included

thanks

]]> 3 aae3e07096610b37d67b965e2c96d48d Will McGirr posted an update in the group Grazing Management: I have a question about fertiliser and seeding. Is it […] https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/4313/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:48:53 +0800 I have a question about fertiliser and seeding. Is it better to apply fertiliser together with the seed, or is it better to apply post-emergence?

]]> 2 532572dbb75b49c4039a896e5c1526fb Will McGirr posted an update: Any developments on starting a micro abbatoir for our area? https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/3788/ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:41:11 +0800 Any developments on starting a micro abbatoir for our area?

]]> 2 248d64df1b21b1c2af10bb9a91d3b70b Will McGirr posted a new activity comment https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/3767/#acomment-3769 Sun, 08 Dec 2024 09:57:50 +0800 @Eric Dobbe Hi Eric – that’s was very helpful.

somif I’m understanding you correctly- direct drill my pasture mix with fert as normal – then put on MAP at the rate recommended by soil test?

we have virtually no phosphorus available.

In reply to - Will McGirr posted an update in the group Grazing Management

Sweet Vernal Grass

I have several paddocks that are dominated by this – any advice I was there on how to vastly reduce it?

I’m working on my soil, […]

]]> 3b05b24a1c3452bcd1f5c5b4ff4d87a1 Will McGirr posted an update in the group Grazing Management: Sweet Vernal GrassI have several paddocks that are […] https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/3767/ Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:32:31 +0800 Sweet Vernal Grass

I have several paddocks that are dominated by this – any advice I was there on how to vastly reduce it?

I’m working on my soil, amendments and liming every year.

any particular amendment I need to increase?

in the autumn, should I till it and then seed? Or direct drill into it?

]]> 3 172cf8ae2654d3aa5aefd352a875bb98 Will McGirr posted a new activity comment https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/3740/#acomment-3742 Tue, 22 Oct 2024 02:34:04 +0800 That’s me alright – low phosphorous and low potassium. Thanks for that Eric

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Pretty nube question here – what kind of grass is this? I have a lot of it & stock not eating it at this stage.

]]> e4547411b509a20480085553ce1ca8e7 Will McGirr posted an update in the group Grazing Management: Pretty nube question here - what kind of grass is this? […] https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/3740/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:11:54 +0800 Pretty nube question here – what kind of grass is this? I have a lot of it & stock not eating it at this stage.

]]> 3 173f9ba2ed42a14cfa52a7840d5bf740 Will McGirr posted an update in the group Plant Nutrition: When to start putting on Foliar sprays I haven’t heard […] https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/3662/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:05:40 +0800 When to start putting on Foliar sprays

I haven’t heard this discussed very much – what time of year to begin applying Compost tea brews etc. at the moment it’s very wet and in a lot of our paddocks you couldn’t take anything heavier than a quad on them as they are so waterlogged. So it’s seems that winter is mostly out? So is it then spring…

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]]> 1 b388ad34e339cf045621211ac543e8ad Will McGirr replied to the discussion Grazing before leaving for hay in the forum Grazing Management https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/grazing-management/forum/discussion/grazing-before-leaving-for-hay/#post-12595 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 01:36:42 +0800 Reply to Grazing before leaving for hay

Thanks Mark – this is what I was leaning towards. So will give a good grace

]]> c0131e98fde332680a36c9d9f177503b Will McGirr started the discussion Grazing before leaving for hay in the forum Grazing Management https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/grazing-management/forum/discussion/grazing-before-leaving-for-hay/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 06:18:49 +0800 Grazing before leaving for hay

We have fairly poor soils and growth of an oats and pasture mix that was sown in autumn, is fairly patchy right now – some areas are great others look bad. In a paddock we want to cut hay in, is it a good practice to give it one light graze over with cattle and then leave it till hay time? Or just keep the gate locked until hay cutting time?

]]> b209cc856667fc38a645ab2c533aa76b Will McGirr replied to the discussion Guilford/Onion Grass in the forum Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/perennial-pastures/forum/discussion/guilford-onion-grass/#post-12400 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:56:45 +0800 Reply to Guilford/Onion Grass

Is the key then to get the other grass/legume species to be the most dominant & to out compete the Guilford grass?

]]> dcfc6084c1baf61532d585cab22554a2 Will McGirr replied to the discussion Red Legged Earth Mite in the forum Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/perennial-pastures/forum/discussion/red-legged-earth-mite/#post-12385 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:25:39 +0800 Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite

Thanks Kate – that’s helpful

]]> ff2860781d776d8ae8ecb300a8b43787 Will McGirr replied to the discussion Guilford/Onion Grass in the forum Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/perennial-pastures/forum/discussion/guilford-onion-grass/#post-12384 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:24:50 +0800 Reply to Guilford/Onion Grass

Thanks Eric – I’ll look into it

]]> 14e05651b765aa9fc505495cfbd757c1 Will McGirr replied to the discussion Red Legged Earth Mite in the forum Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/perennial-pastures/forum/discussion/red-legged-earth-mite/#post-12383 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:24:02 +0800 Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite

Ok – will put some on today 🙂 thanks

]]> 025486751321fd6af0cb05394651bcd5 Will McGirr started the discussion Guilford/Onion Grass in the forum Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/perennial-pastures/forum/discussion/guilford-onion-grass/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:39:49 +0800 Guilford/Onion Grass

I have thick mats of it on some paddocks & it’s clearly choking out/retarding the growth of what has been sown in. How to deal with it without herbicide?

in one paddock in year one – we put free range pigs across it and that cleared some patches.

year 2 I tilled the whole paddock with an offset disc & sowed into that.

year 3 it’s back again -…

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]]> 1688a7fa237e8f2da7c414a4b6c5ed8f Will McGirr replied to the discussion Red Legged Earth Mite in the forum Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/perennial-pastures/forum/discussion/red-legged-earth-mite/#post-12376 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:32:36 +0800 Reply to Red Legged Earth Mite

Hi Mark,

thanks for the reply and input. After emergence last year I sprayed on your suggested mix – does it need to be put on every year? I didn’t put it on yet this year.

]]> 5ac8a5d7dffdd83bfe4c626a11cf85ee Will McGirr started the discussion Red Legged Earth Mite in the forum Perennial & Biodiverse Pastures https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/perennial-pastures/forum/discussion/red-legged-earth-mite/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 05:12:15 +0800 Red Legged Earth Mite

I’m having a severe infestation on my broad leafed plants/seedlings – on radish, clovers & Vetch.

Any non chemical ways of halting this?

]]> dafba5c6848ee0b0c2df0c1a35a2432a Will McGirr posted an update in the group Plant Nutrition: Applying foliar nitrogen timingif your soil is low in N […] https://lowerblackwood.com.au/news-feed/p/3521/ Thu, 09 May 2024 08:47:01 +0800 Applying foliar nitrogen timing

if your soil is low in N and you have used a fertiliser at seeding with a low % of N – when is the best time after plant emergence to apply foliar nitrogen?

]]> 2 08905be3aabd3d6b89fd4bbe238e362c Will McGirr started the discussion Potassium in our soils in the forum Plant Nutrition https://lowerblackwood.com.au/groups/plant-nutrition/forum/discussion/potassium-in-our-soils/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:34:21 +0800 Potassium in our soils

My soil tests are showing a severe lack of potassium (no shocks there!) – saying I need to apply 80kg/Ha. Question is – how do I improve potassium levels in my paddocks without using NPK / chemical fertilisers?

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