The 2011 crop – our best so far
North America Study Tour 2010
The 2011 crop – our best so far
China-Vietnam study Tour 2013
The 2011 crop – our best so far
13 T/Ha wheat crop in England, 2015 Ag Tour
The 2011 crop – our best so far
Factory tour, China-Vietnam 2013
The 2011 crop – our best so far
Finding ANZAC relations graves, Ypres Belgium, European Ag Tour 2015
Harvesting the 2009 crop
Cotton Rondonopolis, Brazil, South America 2016
Iguazu Falls, South America, 2016
On the Amazon, South America, 2016
The late James Crabtree (92) enjoying the fruits of our labour
North America Study Tour, 2010
Factory tour, China-Vietnam 2013

Archived WANTFA Newsletters

Newsletters from late 1993 to early 2003 are presented here in pdf format. Bill was the Editor from June 1993 to July 2002 and Scientific Officer for the WA No-Till Farmers Association for a five and a half-year term.

Index of articles

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
July	2002	Snippets	The power of furrows in dry starts	521	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Dense pastures struggle with dry starts	521	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Stubble holds fragile soil together!	522	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Agronomic potential benefits of hands free steering	522	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Field days – Hyden, Lake King, Lake Grace and Ongerup	523	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Press wheel design for dry soils!	523	Bill Crabtree

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WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
July	2002	Snippets	Herbicide resistance symposium	524	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Snake chains – for poor B2 seeders	524	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Straw has nutrients and energy	524	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Plowing every so often – mistake?	525	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Ants and ryegrass – again!	525	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Cadiz and repellent soils	526	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
July	2002	Snippets	All crop is most profitable than some pasture	526	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Harvest peas when warm for even cover	526	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Roundup Ready canola – how risky?	526	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	RR canola in seasons like this would be nice	526	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Goucho and Gassen!	527	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Snippets	Meckering on 23rd July and 18th September	527	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
July	2002	Topical	10 years of WANTFA	528	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Topical	Staff Issues	528	Bill Crabtree
July	2002	Topical	From the President	529	Neil Young
July	2002	Topical	WANTFA’S website traffic	529	Graham Langley
July	2002	Topical	Gene flow and canola	530	Steve Powles
July	2002	Topical	Maize and sorghum encourage fusarium	531	Greg Shea

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
July	2002	Topical	Graincare – on farm quality assurance	531	Charles Willerby
July	2002	Topical	ZeroTillage begins in Pakistan	533	CIMMYT
July	2002	Science	Wider row spacings in lupins is an advantage	534	Geoff Fosbery
July	2002	Science	Tissue tests relate to soil test data	535	HF de Wet
July	2002	Science	Stirling and Gairdner can tolerate phenoxy’s	536	Hamohiner
July	2002	Farmer	Yilgarn Shire – good country for hardy people	538	Neil Dodge

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
July	2002	Farmer	One pass operation	539	Tyronne Henning
July	2002	Farmer	Farming rules keep changing	541	Mike Thomas
July	2002	Farmer	Meckering information	543	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	More organic carbon with no-till	497	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Organic carbon improves with agriculture	498	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Pacific Northwest farmers paid for carbon	499	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
April	2002	Snippets	Deep ripping re-think	499	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Sub-soil acidity and no-till	501	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Glyphosate resistance and full-tillage!	501	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Some other ways to kill ryegrass!	501	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Erosion in Brazil improves	501	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Soil damage from sheep	502	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
April	2002	Snippets	Apply K now!	502	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Beware 2,4-D upsets warm season grasses	502	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Weed seeker	502	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Pesticide free production	502	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Insights from Brazilian entomologist	502	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	South American study tour again	504	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
April	2002	Snippets	Hooded sprayers - three available	504	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Snippets	Department trials show pea response	504	Bill Crabtree
April	2002	Topical	Presidents Report	505	Neil Young
April	2002	Topical	Machinery investment in cropping systems	505	Ken Sevenson
April	2002	Topical	Future farming improvements	507	Dr Nigel Wilhelm
April	2002	Topical	Meckering 2001 Trials summary	508	Bill Crabtree & Matt Beckett

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
April	2002	Science	Fauna and pests with no-till cropping systems	510	Dirceu Gassen
April	2002	Science	Fertilizer placement innovation	513	Dr Nigel Wilhelm
April	2002	Science	Overcoming subsoil constraints	514	Matt Beckett
April	2002	Farmer	A second chance with resistant weeds	515	Tony Seabrook
April	2002	Farmer	Caution urged with Roundup Ready crops	516	Robert Stevenson
April	2002	Farmer	Claying with high rates in SA	518	Roger Groocock

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
January	2002	Snippets	Wide row lupins work!	477	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Snippets	The 10th Annual Conference	478	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Snippets	Organic matter increases with stubble retention	478	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Snippets	Summer floods-what can we learn?	479	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Snippets	Wide rows lupins and N distribution	479	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Snippets	Rip the edges of crops - good money	480	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
January	2002	Snippets	Blanket applicator can be selective	480	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Snippets	More on South America	480	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Snippets	Warm season crop progress	481	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Topical	Presidents Report	482	Neil Young
January	2002	Topical	No-till brain transplant - Beck style	483	Ben Hobley
January	2002	Topical	Diamond back moth control	484	Wayne Smith

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
January	2002	Topical	Warm season crop field days in February	485	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Topical	Weed wipers in South Australia	486	Michael Richards
January	2002	Science	Soil quality indicators for WA farmers - Part 1	487	N Milton, M Braimbridge and D Murphy
January	2002	Science	Preliminary Meckering R&D Site Results	488	Bill Crabtree
January	2002	Science	Sulphur nutrition of wheat	490	Dr Geoff Anderson
January	2002	Science	Classical Sulphur deficiencies	491	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
January	2002	Farmer	Changing tillage through time	492	Miles Obst
January	2002	Farmer	No-till 18 years on	494	Ray & Tim Harrington
November	2001	Snippets	Meckering attracted 550	499	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Blanket wipers - their time has come!	450	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	GRDC offers TAFE Scholarships	450	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Do you spray aphids in Canola?	450	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
November	2001	Snippets	Another reminder of erosion	451	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Another interactive field day	451	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Wide rows improve lupin flowering	451	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Warm Season Crop Project begins	452	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Cultivated crops look best early!	452	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Apology to BASF	452	Bill Crabtree

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
November	2001	Snippets	Soil testing made simple	453	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	10th WANTFA Conference - Perth and Katanning	453	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Sunn Hemp - might have potential!	454	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	Topdressing urea in wet areas	454	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Snippets	No-Till with Bill (Study tour poem)	454	Vivienne Lee Steere
November	2001	Topical	Presidents Report	455	Neil Young

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
November	2001	Topical	Letter - Why I am not afraid of RR crops	455	Wayne Smith
November	2001	Topical	Response to letter - WANTFA activities with resistance	456	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Topical	2001 WANTFA Study Tour	457	Angie Roe
November	2001	Topical	Agronomic View-less ryegrass!	460	Wayne Smith
November	2001	Topical	Spectacular claying trial - imaged!	461	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Topical	2001 Meckering Field Day proves bigger and better	462	Matt Beckett

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
November	2001	Topical	Northern South Africa agriculture and more!	464	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Topical	Thinking of growing a summer crop?	466	Andrew Hills
November	2001	Science	Fertilising and farming to 2cm	467	Grant Thompson
November	2001	Science	Tramlines and no-till a good match	468	Dr Paul Blackwell
November	2001	Science	Timing of nitrogen for no-tilled wheat	470	Bill Crabtree
November	2001	Farmer	Towards discs and residue managers	471	Murray Gmeiner

WANTFA Farming Systems
Month	Year	Section	Article	Page	Author
November	2001	Farmer	Weed wiping has role	472	Trent Tyler
November	2001	Farmer	Forage sorghum survived a dry spring	474	Ashley Jones
August	2001	Snippets	No-till fights the WA drought!	425	Bill Crabtree
August	2001	Snippets	Grazed capeweed are hard to kill!	427	Bill Crabtree
August	2001	Snippets	Stuart Bee and Terry Andreoli Scholarships	427	Bill Crabtree
August	2001	Snippets	Knife-points get the crop up!	427	Bill Crabtree