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e-newsletter edition 6, July 2008

Welcome

The 2008 Spray Charts are now available and can be purchased either from us at Roseworthy Information Centre or your local Rural Solutions SA office for $7.50 per chart. Call us on 1800 356 446 Toll Free to order your copy or do so through the online shop.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at the Cleve Field Days on Eyre Peninsula 12, 13, 14 August (Lisa and Kate attending), and the busy period continues with the Adelaide Show in early September!

A special upcoming event is the Roseworthy Campus 125th Open Day entitled 'The Science behind the Product' on Sunday, 2 November 2008. What better way to celebrate the rich history and welcome the exciting and transforming developments Roseworthy faces than with a festival that brings together science, agriculture, viticulture and education in one beautiful location. For further details visit www.adelaide.edu.au/roseworthy125.

Nicky has finally settled back in and is looking forward to catching up with everyone after returning from extended sick leave. Let us know your news, upcoming events or book orders

Regards, Lisa and Nicky.

Rural Books and Resource Material

Jackie French's Top 10 Vegetables

Jackie French

Our Price: $16.95

There are few strangers in Jackie French's selection, but her thoughts on growing and preparing these vegetables are both delectable and entertaining, and kind to our stomachs as well as the environment.

Ute Guide - Winter Cereal Nutrition

Primary Industries and Resources South Australia

Our Price: $27.50

This guide is designed to help farmers, advisers, researchers and students identify cereal nutrition disorders and other disorders that they are likely to encounter when monitoring cereal crops across Australia. It covers both nutrient deficiencies and toxicities and environmental, chemical and physiological disorders which can give similar symptoms to nutrient disorders. An emphasis has been put on ease of diagnosis with disorders giving similar symptoms being placed together. The guide focuses on wheat, barley and oats.

Field Guide to Weeds in Australia

Charles Lamp & Frank Collet

Our Price: $89.00

In this field guide plants are listed in alphabetical order of scientific name. To this extent it is self-indexing. However an index of common plant names is also included so that the plant can also be located by that known name. Each weed is accompanied by a colour photograph.

Viticulture and Environment

John Gladstones

Our Price: $66.00

A study of the effects of environment on grapegrowing and wine qualities, with emphasis on present and future areas for growing winegrapes in Australia.

Winner of OIV Award for Viticulture. An analysis of the interaction of environment with viticulture, with special emphasis on site selection, variety selection and cultural practices. Detailed climatic analysis of Australian and world viticultural areas, which allows evaluation of potential new viticultural sites, taking into consideration possible future climatic changes.

Create an Oasis with Greywater

Art Ludwig

Our Price: $49.95

Create an Oasis with Greywater describes how to choose, build, and use 20 types of residential greywater reuse systems in just about any context: urban, rural, or village.

It explains how you can put together a simple greywater system in an afternoon for under $30.00.

It also includes information for taking your greywater reuse to the next performance level.

Keeping Livestock Health - Fourth Edition

N. Bruce Haynes, D.V.M.

Our Price: $39.95

Comprehensive veterinary guide to preventing and identifying disease in horses, cattle, pigs, goats and sheep. Includes information on nutrition, housing, reproduction and restraint.

Now completely revised and updated, this fourth edition draws on the very latest research from experts on each of the five animals covered - horses, cattle, pigs, goats, and sheep. It presents new information on vaccines, artificial insemination, ultrasonography, disease testing, drug treatments, and diseases such as Lyme disease, Potomac fever, bluetongue, foot-and-mouth disease, and mad cow disease.

Ute Guide - Crop Insects

Grains Research & Development Corporation

Our Price: $27.50

Pocket sized coloured guide that helps you identify the most insects that you are likely to encounter in crops.

This guide is aimed to help farmers, researchers and students identify the most common crop insects in southern Australia. Insect descriptions and photographs have been provided to enable the identification of the pests and to ensure effective and timely control. The guide is designed to be used in the paddock, and is a full colour and waterproof identification guide which will enable growers to achieve the first steps in achieving effective integrated pest management outcomes in their farm business.

2008 Spray Chart Set

Rural Solutions SA

Our Price: $28.00

Complete set of 4 Spray Charts: Field Crops Disease Spraying Chart Pulse & Canola Weed Spraying Chart Cereal Weed Spraying Chart Insect Spraying Chart, Field Crops & Pastures

Covers everything from a guide to field crop disease control, lists the most commonly used herbicides registered in SA for the control of weeds in, wheat, barley, oats, triticale, rye, chickpea, faba beans, lentils, lupins, field peas, vetch & canola crops. Also the most commonly used insecticides registered in SA for the control of insects in field crops & pastures.

Read More

The Online Bookshop and Resource Centre provides access to our publications, software and video sales 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Visit the Online Shop now: http://www.ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au/bookshop

We are located at Norton Rd , Roseworthy Campus, Adelaide University , Roseworthy.
Office Hours: 8:45am - 4:30pm Monday - Friday.

Phone (Toll Free): 1800 356 446 or 8303 7624
Email: bookshop@ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au

The Centre has facilities available and can assist with:

Product launches
Conferences
Distribution of information products
Industry events
Information searching

Information is available from a wide variety of sources including PIRSA, DWLBC and other Government Agencies, CSIRO, Universities, Research and Development organisations (CRC's, RIRDS, GRDC), TopCrop, the Kondinin Group and many more.

www.ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au | 1300 364 322 | info@ruralsolutions.sa.gov.au

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Edition 6, July 2008