Roseworthy

Now is also the time for farmers to work out their fire plans.

You'll hear from Rural Assistance Commissioner Peter Toohey and a 50-year-old time capsule at the Roseworthy campus of Adelaide University is going to reveal how a fungal wheat disease has mutated.

Music On Country Today, let's take some time to talk about Dr Helen Haynes, the independent member for the federal seat of Indi, who we all know is in a critical condition after an attack outside her electorate office in Wangaratta yesterday.

Let's focus today on the incredible work she's done through the Voices for Indi movement, which really boosted the momentum in independents winning federal seats.

Thanks, Libby.

Rural Assistance Commissioner Peter Toohey.

A time capsule sealed 50 years ago at South Australia's then Roseworthy Agricultural College is about to provide a unique insight into how cereal crop diseases mutate.

The capsule holds the first samples of the then-emerging Septoria tritici blotch, a now common wheat disease.

Yeah, that's annoying.

Lauren in Roseworthy, a trivial dispute.

Morning, guys.

How are we?

The 50-year time capsule at the University of Adelaide.

now the Roseworthy campus of Adelaide University, I should say.

It was at Roseworthy Agricultural College 50 years ago and they put away some things they thought might be of interest in 50 years' time and we'll hear a little bit about what they uncovered over the weekend.

Also, we'll head to Keith for the offshore sale as well.

Prices were very realistic.

It just feels like a moment where we can finally breathe.

That was Isabella Kelly speaking there with Mieging Turner from South Australia's Eyre Peninsula, reflecting on what the agar bloom has meant for the oyster industry across South Australia, particularly on the Eyre Peninsula.

Now we're going to take a bit of a trip back in time to 1976 Roseworthy Agricultural College.

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... because Gawler 2.0 is either built out at Roseworthy or built up the road at Concordia in Barossa Council, and they have the benefit of building for cars-

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... and modern-day living expectations, but they can't rebuild the uniqueness that is the Town of Gawler.

But I think, um, we're only at the start of it.

Okay.

Like, so as rezoning happens, not only just in Gawler, but Roseworthy and Light Council and Concordia and Barossa Council, all that rezoning is-

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And so the harvester goes through, picks it up, takes it through the threshing machine, the grain goes into the tank, and the residue, which is chaff, goes out the back with the dust that's done in dusty conditions, yes, for hundreds of years when it's mechanised.

So we've got people around Roseworthy and Northern who've moved in, they don't want farmers sowing their crops at night because the lights shine in through their residents.

I don't want to hear the noise and the dust.

It's not going 24-7, Graeme, and you've got some North Terrace bureaucrat who thinks, here's a good idea to justify my position.

Be careful around Forreston Road, Norsworthy.

Or is that supposed to be Roseworthy? Norsworthy? Not sure.

Intersection of Forreston.

Mother Koala has somewhere to be walking around all over the road.

A stack of places around SA recorded their hottest September day on record this week, ten to fifteen degrees above average on Tuesday.

A lot went over the thirty-five degree mark, including Pirie, Murray Bridge, Roseworthy, Minlaton, Edinburgh, and Parafield.

Even KI managed twenty-eight.

Adelaide itself reached thirty-four point four, its second hottest September day on record.

We haven't even reached our time of maximum heating yet, and we're already starting to see some September records falling, particularly down around parts of, I guess, sort of central areas.

Places like Parrafield, Edinburgh, Roseworthy, Nooroopa, Noorlunga, Kite Po, Strathalbyn, Highmarsh Island, Minleton, all look like they might well be setting September, new September heat records.

So and obviously the temperature is still rising.

So very significant warm day today.