Talking CTF Australian Controlled Traffic Farming Association

Southern Regional Manager from Australian Tyre
Traders Geelong, Vic has more than 20 years of experience working in the tyre industry around Australia in retail, wholesale and original equipment. In this episode, we chat with Matt about optimizing tyre management in controlled traffic farming systems, including choosing the right tyres, optimizing pressure, minimising wheel rutting, and planning tyre management. Australian Tyre Traders is a national wholesale tyre business specialising in tuck, bus and agricultural tyre ranges for Australian conditions.



This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X
“Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series

In this episode, we talk to Dr Jeff Tullberg and Dr Chris Bluett about the results of a five-year project titled “Application of CTF in the Low Rainfall Zone (LRZ)” funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and co-funded by participating partners.

Jeff is an Australian agricultural engineer with broad experience in research, teaching, extension and consulting on technical and economic aspects of farm machinery and its impact on soil, cropping systems and the environment. Chris is an agriculturist with broad experience in grain crop agronomy and farming systems, primarily in the High Rainfall Zone of Southern Victoria. His work includes new crop development ie canola, raised bed farming and controlled traffic farming.

This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X: “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series.”

Research has shown that nitrous oxide emissions were, on average, 2.2 times greater on wheeled soil compared to unwheeled zones in controlled traffic farming around Australia. In this episode, we chat with ACTFA board members Dr Jeff Tullberg and Dr Chris Bluett about the results of a project funded by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources investigating the potential for controlled traffic farming to reduce nitrous oxide emissions. The project was part of its Carbon Farming Futures Action on the Ground Program (AOTGR2-62:Nitrous oxide
emission reductions from controlled traffic farming Jeff is an Australian agricultural engineer with broad experience in research, teaching, extension and consulting on technical and economic aspects of farm machinery and its impact on soil, cropping systems and the environment. Chris is an agriculturist with broad experience in grain crop agronomy and farming systems, primarily in the High Rainfall Zone of Southern Victoria. His work includes new crop development ie canola, raised bed farming and controlled traffic farming.This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National LandcareProgram Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series”

In
this episode we chat to Jay Caroll at Civil Agricultural Design in Toowoomba
expert in drainage and surface water management. Jay explains why surface water
management is important in CTF, some of the key components to consider
designing layouts, useful data layers and surface water management options.

This
podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project
4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales
through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series”

Josh Pearse works at Vantage WA and is an expert in precision agriculture and controlled traffic farming. Josh established the WACTFA Facebook group and is an ACTFA board member. In this episode, we talk to Josh Pearse about finer details of matching machinery for CTF such as common operating and track widths and ratios and options for machinery guidance. His top tip is “Measure, Measure, Measure”.

This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project
4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales
through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series”

Tim Rethus is a farmer from Horsham whose family business Rethus Broadacre has run a controlled traffic farming system for more than 20 years. Tim shares with us their machinery configuration, the benefits, and the challenges of CTF. Rethus is one of the few farms in Australia that produce hay with equipment matched to their 12m CTF system so that all hay operations run on the wheel tracks.

This podcast was funded by ACTFA’s National Landcare Program Smart Farms Project 4-EALL5X “Resilient mixed farming systems in Victoria and New South Wales through controlled traffic farming. A workshop Series” You can listen to the series here
https://actfa.net/smart-farm-audio-workshop/