02 April 2004: The winners of the RASQ Toowoomba Show's dryland crop competitions have been announced with some very impressive yields in a difficult season.
Attendance at the presentations on Friday, March 26 was excellent, with the majority of winners traveling to Toowoomba to collect their awards for the State competition.

The champions of the dryland sorghum section, Glengallan Station at Allora won with an impressive yield of 10.99 ton/ha from the crop of Pacific MR43.
The second and third placings, Stephen Little of Dalby and Noel, Val and Ray Griffiths, Jandowae also chose Pacific MR43 as their variety, with their crops yielding 10.74t/ha and 9.97 t/ha respectively. Grain Sorghum variety, Pacific MR43 is produced by Toowoomba based seed company, Pacific Seeds.

Of the top nine placings in the dryland grain sorghum, eight were won by farmers growing Pacific Seeds varieties.

In the dryland maize competition, NR and RM Postle took out first place with a crop of Pacific DK689 yielding 8.42 t/ha. Second place was won by the Broxbourne Farming Co. (Bill and Rod Ferguson) at Bowenville with their crop of Hycorn 424 which yielded 7.75 t/ha. Third place in the dryland maize was won by Dalby grower, Ian Peterson with a crop of Hycorn 788. These were all also Pacific Seeds’ varieties.

Presentations were also made for the dryland sunflower competition, in which all three major placings were won by growers who chose to plant Pacific Seeds varieties. First was won by S and S Farming Trust at Nobby with a crop of Sunbird 7. Second went to Brian and Chris Kuhn, Clifton with a crop of monounsaturated variety, Hyoleic 40, while third went to AE and AD Kratzman of Clifton with their crop of Sunbird 7.

The major placings of all three of these dryland sections were won by growers who planted Pacific Seeds varieties. The yields achieved in the difficult dryland conditions last season demonstrate both the versatility of the sorghum, maize and sunflower varieties grown by these competitors, and the high agronomic skill of the growers.