Kojonup

Great Southern Treasures put on the Bloom Festival, and there's events from Ungraup to Pingraup to Jerramungup.

A- all around, Kojonup.

Open gardens, lots of workshops, lots of studios, so, and that runs for four weeks.

So, um, book it in.

I think it was something I noticed when I worked in the Great Southern from being in the Northern Wheatbelt.

I went to an expo, and someone from the Northern Wheatbelt spoke about, um, grazing management, which they did in Charlton Valley, and the expo was in Kojonup, which was the first time I thought being an outsider is actually an advantage because people do things, as I said before, for a reason.

And if you haven't seen it done before, you're not often going to apply it in a new environment.

And I think that is an advantage because everyone has done something for a reason, and if they are making a profit, quite often you don't change it.

Uh, across northern parts of the Wheatbelt, not gonna see, uh, all that much rainfall, probably about three to 10 mils, uh, from Merredin on, uh, northward up through, uh, Beacon.

And then as you get to- further south from Merredin, there's a bit of uncertainty in terms of the, the rainfall, but especially when you get south of about, uh, Corrigin, uh, down towards Kojonup, uh, they're probably gonna do fairly well as there, there is gonna be a low-pressure system that may develop within this front.

And so especially on Wednesday night and Thursday, we could be looking at some pretty decent rain from Kojonup right across, uh, to the Esperance region, and s- some of those areas could see, uh, anywhere from about, uh, 15 to, to 50 mils.

Again, uh, fairly uncertain as far as the rainfall, but it does look like, uh, for the main ag areas, the Great Southern, uh, and across to Esperance is, uh, probably gonna do the best from this, this system.

Uh, and then we'll see the rain lingering around the, uh, Esperance region could see anywhere from about two to 10 mils on Friday, w- whereas, uh, western areas, uh, uh, up through the Wheatbelt and the Midwest will be drying out, and it looks like pretty dry weather over the weekend with a new ridge of high pressure.

So the, the pods should stay together and hold the seeds ready for harvest.

And in this one particular field on the Glenlosse Research Station at Kojonup, he found...

And this is another introduced variety, late-flowering, shattering.

And he found two plants that were non-shattering, which is quite remarkable.

Yeah.

And they were two plants that became the mainstay of the lupin industry in his varieties, UniHarvest, UniCrop, and so on.

Um, he came back from Glenlosse, Kojonup, and the next day went to the UWA, University of Western Australia, field station at Shenton Park, which ironically is where I work now, and he found another non-shattering lupin in New Zealand blue and combined the two and created the first fully domesticated narrow-leaf lupin of- ... history, in history.

Yeah, so this crop became well-known across Australia.