Clay trials

A series of trials were set up in 2013 at our Inverleigh and Westmere sites to evaluate a range of commercially available varieties of barley that are either grown for malt, grown for feed or varieties that have the potential to be grown for yield but could still be accepted as malt at receivals.

To assess the yield of a number of agronomic treatments on barley varieties.

To determine the effectiveness of plant growth regulators and fungicides on barley yields.

To evaluate barley varieties under irrigated conditions.

Evaluation of barley varities under irrigated conditions.

To determine the effect of plant growth regulators on irrigated canola.

To determine the optimum management of canola plant type and phenology when sown earlier than traditional sowing time (25 April). To assess the response of canola varieties to high and low application rates of N on grain yield and grain quality.

To evaluate canola varieties under irrigated conditions.

Evaluation of canola varities under irrigated conditions.

To evaluate the effects of fungicide strategies and inoculants on the nodulation, root disease score and grain yield.

To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application.

To evaluate mixed species cropping on harvestability and input costs, which include weed and disease management, and, harvest desiccation. This work investigates the mixed species crop combinations most grown in Canada.

Chickpea, Sowing Time, MRZ Wimmera (Horsham), Victoria Chickpea, Sowing Time, LRZ Mallee (Ouyen), Victoria.

To investigate adaptability chickpea, faba bean, field pea, lupin, vetch and lentil varieties and breeding lines to spring sowing. Specifically, in chickpea there was a focus on new early flowering breeding lines with improved cold tolerance during the pod set phase.

To compare the yield and grain quality of barley varieties when harvest is delayed.

To investigate irrigated durum wheat in an agronomy trial.

To evaluate early maturing wheat varieties under irrigated conditions.

To determine the effect of molybdenum on faba bean nodulation and yield.

To assess the effect of plant growth regulators on irrigated faba beans.

To study the effect of plant population and row spacing on faba bean yields.

To evaluate faba bean varieties and breeding lines under irrigated conditions.

To evaluate the effects of fungicide strategies and inoculants on the nodulation, root disease score and grain yield.

To evaluate foliar fungicide spray strategies on disease control in new breeding lines and varieties.

To evaluate the response of the new ‘imi’ tolerant varieties, to novel herbicide strategies involving Group B and C herbicide products.

To investigate the response of faba bean to application of lime, macro and micro-nutrients

To invesigate the tolerance of a newly released faba bean variety PBA Bendoc to post sowing pre-emergence (PSPE) and in-crop application timings of Group B herbicides in comparison with PBA Samira.

Evaluation of faba bean varities and breeding lines under irrigated conditions.

To reduce lodging and increase harvestability and biomass. To assess fungicide efficacy on blackspot infection under different canopy structures (Hart ONLY).

To investigate the yield and quality effects of a delayed harvest on a range of barley varieties.

To assess the influence of additional Potassium fertiliser (Potassium Sulphate) used in crop on grain yield, tissue and grain concentration on soil with adequate K indices.

To test the effect on grain protein by late application of N fertiliser.

To investigate the best time for rolling lentils. This it to ensure that the paddock surface is in a state suitable for harvest whilst miniising the imnpact of rolling operation on the crop.

Experiment 1: To investigate the suitability of new and pre-release winter wheat varieties to the Wimmera and Mallee and define their optimal time of sowing.
Experiment 2: To investigate the amount of rainfall required to establish an early sown winter wheat crop in the Wimmera and Mallee.

To evaluate milling oat varieties under irrigated conditions.

To determine the amount of N contributed by a faba bean crop in the following season.

To evaluate the influence of plant population, row spacing and nitrogen rate on nitrogen use efficiency (NUE), dry matter production, grain yield and harvest index in grain maize.

To evaluate the influence of different rates and timings of 46 %N prilled urea applied N prior to later applications of liquid N applied as fertigation applied in grain maize.

To evaluate nitrogen use efficiency in grain maize under different rates and of applied N fertiliser applied at sowing and at V6 as urea (46% N).

To investigate the response of wheat to phosphorus fertiliser grown on an alkaline crumbly clay soil type.

To assess the effects of plant growth regulants (PGR’s) on crop growth and grain yield across variable soils in barley.

To determine the most effective application timing of PGRs to two barley varieties, and at what yield potential their application is economical.

To determine whether Moddus Evo, applied with and without fungicide at different timings, influenced the level of lodging and head loss in Scope CL barley, and to compare its performance against other PGRs when applied at GS31.

To identify the optimum plant populations for the grain maize Pioneer Hybrid 1756 at 500 and 750mm row spacing for grain yield.

To determine the effect that nitrogen applied to a barley crop that ‘hayed off’ has on wheat sown in the subsequent season.

To determine whether sowing direction influences wheat and barley grain yields in the southern grains region.

To determine whether sowing direction influences wheat and barley grain yields in the southern grains region.

To investigate the incorporation and breakdown of stubbles by adding nutrients.

To determine the effect of stubble type (wheat, peas and canola) and load (from Decile 2, 5 and 8
seasons) on subsequent soil and crop nutrition.

To evaluate various zinc strategies and compare liquid phosphorus in wheat on high pH soils.

To test the establishment effect of fertiliser sown 'down the tube' with canola.