With the high cost of crop input prices weighing on most farmers minds at present, we put the focus on chickpea this week as a potential high value legume option for the coming season.
Over the last three years, West Midlands Group trials have found that chickpea have yielded consistently and have had a competitive Gross Margin in our region despite not being a traditional chickpea growing area.
In this episode, Nathan Craig (WMG Executive Officer) sat down with Mark Seymour & Harmohinder Dhammu from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, to answer the two most asked questions about chickpeas:
This conversation covered a lot of good information and so it will be a two-part episode. Be sure to download and listen in to part 2 which is available right now:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1067260/10154568
*Harmohinder Dhammu would like to note that at 17:13 of this episode, he should have said "susceptible ryegrass" rather than "resistant ryegrass".
With the high cost of crop input prices weighing on most farmers minds at present, we put the focus on chickpea this week as a potential high value legume option for the coming season.
Over the last three years, West Midlands Group trials have found that chickpea have yielded consistently and have had a competitive Gross Margin in our region despite not being a traditional chickpea growing area.
In this episode, Nathan Craig (WMG Executive Officer) sat down with Mark Seymour & Harmohinder Dhammu from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, to answer the two most asked questions about chickpeas:
This conversation covered a lot of good information and so it will be a two-part episode. Be sure to download and listen in to part 2 which is available right now:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1067260/10154568
*Harmohinder Dhammu would like to note that at 17:13 of this episode, he should have said "susceptible ryegrass" rather than "resistant ryegrass".