Even though Romulo Lollato had traveled more than 9,000 miles and 30 hours away, he ended up in a climate and wheat-producing region that looked almost exactly like the one he had just left in Kansas.
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Kansas State University’s Romulo Lollato and sabbatical host Kenton Porker, farming systems agronomist with CSIRO, stand by a 208-bushel-per-acre wheat crop in Tasmania.
As part of his sabbatical, Romulo Lollato visited multiple experiments pushing the boundaries of crop productivity in drought-prone environments with challenging soils in Australia.
During Lollato's sabbatical leave in Australia, he visited John Kirkegaard’s research experiments, one of which is located by the Iandra Castle in New South Wales, Australia. The castle homestead is one of Australia's most historic and significant wheat producers.
John Kirkegaard and Romulo Lollato hope that their recent work across international datelines helps spur more collaboration between Kansas State University and Australian agriculture researchers.
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