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These trials aim to determine a yield and quality difference between oat varieties grown in the higher rainfall zone of Victoria.
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To provide growers with the tools needed to adopt site-specific weed management (SSWM) strategies as a result of a commercially viable weed ID and mapping system being demonstrated.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for growing conditions in the south east of Victoria.
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To evaluate a number of commercially available oat varieties for yield and grain quality. These reflect the most widely grown varieties in the area and include others that may be considered in the future.
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To evaluate oats in the system.
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To present a case study on oestrogenic clover from Robert Ham's Kangaroo Island farm.
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To investigate the herbicide tolerance of three new canola quality mustard lines.
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To compare the performance of older TT canola varieties (Tanami, Cobbler, Crusher and Snapper) under normal growing conditions in the Ballidu region.
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To assess water repellent soil amelioration options and to determine whether a one-way plough can be used to ameliorate non-wetting sand for much lower cost than mouldboard ploughing or rotary spading.
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To enhance the adaptive capacity of agricultural systems in order to deal with further changes expected as a result of human-induced climate change.
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To identify the options that farmers would, and in some instances are, using to manage climate variability and adapt to climate change.
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To test on-row or inter-row seeding with and without a pre-emergent herbicide package of trifluralin + metribuzin
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To compare and assess the effectiveness of one-off tillage treatments on soil water repellence, water infiltration, crop establishment and productivity on a water repellent gravel.
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Assessing practical soil management options for overcoming severe water repellence on sandy gravels in the West Midlands.
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To assess amelioration options for water repellent soil and to determine whether a one-way plough can be used to ameliorate non-wetting sand for much lower cost than mouldboard ploughing or rotary spading.
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Onion weed (Asphodelus fistulosusis) is a significant pest of crops and pastures on many soil types on upper EP. Onion weed that germinates in the pasture phase often results in thick stands of large plants that require repeated herbicide application and/or cultivation to control prior to a crop phase. Cultivation prior to sowing is a widespread… read more
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To investigate the optimum fertiliser placement when sowing wheat.
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To investigate how different summer crops influence soil moisture throughout their growing seasons and in the subsequent wheat crop
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To compare an opportunistic break crop against fallow and wheat to better define the pros and cons of fallowing.
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To compare an opportunistic break crop against fallow and wheat to better define the pros and cons of fallowing.
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To highlight the main challenges faced in continuous cropping systems, and provide some recent research outcomes on best-bet management to sustain profitable continuous cropping with current and foreseeable technologies.
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To screen alternatives for optical spray management of Fleabane.
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To screen alternatives for optical spray management of Fleabane.
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To evaluate the impact of water volume and nozzle setup on fleabane control using commercial camera sprays.
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To compare grain yields of early sown wheat with grazed (cut) wheat sown at the same time and that sown at a more traditional time, May. A further aim was to compare a commercial plant density for dual purpose and grain‐only production with reduced rates comparable to that used for early sowing in the UK.
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To determine the phenological response (flowering time) to sowing time for a range of barley varieties.
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To evaluate different sequences of pulses and canola after soil amelioration when transitioning into cereal cropping to capture maximum benefit from amelioration.
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To evaluate the rotational benefit of different sequences of pulses and canola after soil amelioration when transitioning back into cereal cropping following amelioration.
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To investigate whether Winter varieties bred for NSW can be grown successfully in SA.
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To investigate time of sowing for individual wheat cultivars with different maturities.
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To investigate optimum time of sowing for individual wheat cultivars with different maturities
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To explore the economic response to fungicide inputs in faba beans with contrasting genetic resistance and differing canopy sizes.
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To investigate the impact of standing stubble on disease progression and resulting yield loss in faba bean.
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To investigate the impact of standing stubble on ascochyta blight infection and resulting yield loss in chickpeas.
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To assess the optimum barley fungicide strategy for the different climatic regions represented in the project and to determine whether the likelihood of fungicide response can be linked to specific timings, disease and plant available water.
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The objectives of these trials are very similar to those pursued last season, those being to establish guidelines on the use of foliar applied fungicides in barley crops.
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These trials taking place in southern Victoria and Tasmania were conducted to examine the response of more disease resistant
varieties to triazole and strobilurin fungicides in the near absence of disease.
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With the large majority of wheat cultivars now deemed to be susceptible to stripe rust, in particular the new WA pathotype, this trial was set up to look at economic response to different foliar fungicide timings. In addition the trial continued the evaluation of the strobilurin fungicides (as part of project SFS 00006), the first of which was r… read more
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To compare the effectiveness of fungicide regimes on disease management in faba beans, including a regime based on an IoT sensor that uses canopy microclimate data.
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To evaluate the response to sowing time of 32 current and new wheat varieties within the central west region of NSW.
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To determine the optimum combination of sowing date, nitrogen management and variety for growth, grain yield and oil concentration in Canola.
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To assess a range of commercial rhizobia inoculant products, application strategies and sowing times to provide growers with recommendations that ensures adequate nodulation and nitrogen fixation in dry sown crops.
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The aim of this series of experiments was to deterimine if management of EGA Wedgetail should be different to that of spring wheats sown in May, and if grown for grain only or dual purpose use.
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Understand the critical nutrients required to achieve high yielding (>3t/ha) canola crops, especially when wanting to chase yields with high N in-season.
Background
Project staff ran a series of workshops in high rainfall areas in WA in 2019 to understand key constraints and knowledge gaps when cropping within the HRZ (450-80… read more
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To discuss optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates.
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To identify the critical P fertiliser rates for a broad range of crops on different soil types in the southern Mallee and northern Wimmera. This trial was also undertaken in 1999.
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To investigate phosphorus use efficiency in six crop types - barley, wheat, canola, lentils, faba beans and field peas. This is the third year of this BCG research.
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To investigate phosphorus use efficiency in six crop types - barley, wheat, canola, lentils, faba beans and field peas. This is the third year of this BCG research.
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To investigate phosphorus use efficiency in six crop types - barley, wheat, canola, lentils, faba beans and field peas. This is the third year of this BCG research.
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1. To evaluate the performance of commercial seeders in establishing canola and lentils by conducting a survey of paddocks.
2. To determine the effect of sowing density, row spacing and seeder type on plant establishment in canola and lentils and subsequent grain yield.
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By 2023, growers will have increased the value of the cropping phase in the HRZ farming system by 10% by addressing both crop yield potential and the gap between potential and realised yields.
This trial aims to explore ways to optimise crop production in the HRZ.
This trial looks at verity types, deep ripping and sowing times… read more
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To demonstrate how Yield Prophet can be used to optimise production with reduced risk.
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This project aims to determine if nitrogen supply is limiting uptake of sulphur in canola crops grown in the Riverine Plains region and whether sulphur uptake and yield is increased in canola when nitrogen is available in non-limiting quantities.
The 2017 project trial assessed the response to nitrogen and sulphur in canola crops of the R… read more
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This project aims to determine if nitrogen supply is limiting uptake of sulphur in canola crops grown in the Riverine Plains region and whether sulphur uptake and yield is increased in canola when nitrogen is available in non-limiting quantities.
The 2017 project trial assessed the response to nitrogen and sulphur in canola crops of the R… read more
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In 2018, field experiments were conducted across ten sites in the northern grains region in Central and Southern Queensland, and
northern, central and southern New South Wales to determine optimal grain yield potential of wheat genotypes.
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To evaluate five wheat varieties sown at three different times and assess how each one responds.
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This project aims to enable growers to make timely and efficient nitrogen decisions in the Esperance port zone by having a rule of thumb around the cost/benefit of feeding N to crops on waterlogged soils.
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To enable growers to make timely and efficient nitrogen decisions in the Albany and Esperance port zones by having a rule of thumb around the cost/benefit of nitrogen fertiliser for crops on waterlogged soils.
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To enable growers to make timely and efficient nitrogen decisions in the Albany and Esperance port zones by having a rule of thumb around the cost/benefit of feeding N to crops on waterlogged soils.
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By 2023, growers will have increased the value of the cropping phase in the HRZ farming system by 10% by addressing both crop yield potential and the gap between potential and realised yields.
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To test some of the commercial practices used in irrigated cotton growing. In the 2014–15 summer cropping season, three experiments were conducted at commercial farms located near Emerald (Qld), Moree (NSW), and Gunnedah (NSW).
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To compare identical plant population x cultivar trials under overhead and surface irrigation (lateral overhead trial)
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To compare identical plant population x cultivar trials under overhead and surface irrigation (surface irrigation trial)
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Assess the performance of durum grown at different plant populations under surface irrigation.
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The objectives were to:
1. reduce nitrous oxide emissions from dryland grains cropping.
2. improve nitrogen use efficiency.
3. validate and develop process-based biogeochemistry models.
4. simulate net greenhouse gas emission under current and projected future climate scenarios.
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Deep placement of organic matter and impact on lupin establishment.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of an organic fertiliser (chicken manure) compared to conventional synthetic compound fertilisers.
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To (i) establish a network of 100 engaged women from farm businesses across all port zones; (ii) increase confidence and capacity of women involved in farm businesses; (iii) increase engagement of women in local and industry organisations; (iv) increase sharing of farm business management responsibilities across various partners; (v) increase aw… read more
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To assess lentil production under constrained soils and conditions
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The aim of this research was to confirm that crop productivity can be substantially improved when subsoil chemical, physical and biological constraints in sandy soils are treated.
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To determine the ffectiveness of foliar sprays of copper fertiliser for maximum grain yield of wheat for a range of copper deficinet soil types in the Newdegate- lake Grace district.
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To explore the use of manganese fertilisers to overcome Mn deficiency in narrow-leafed lupins
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To overcome the challenges in setting up variable rate controllers
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To highlight some of the major issues of trifluralin use and present ways they can be resolved with a little additional care and forward thinking.
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To determine the effectiveness of foliar sprays of zinc fertiliser for maximum grain yield of wheat for a range of zinc deficinet soil types in the Newdegate- lake Grace district.
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The purpose of the experiment was to test the response of one new breeding line and two commercial varieties of soybeans at three row spacings and two plant densities to examine the effect of these treatments on dry matter production, harvest index, grain yield and grain protein.
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To investigate the response of wheat to phosphorus fertiliser grown on an alkaline crumbly clay soil type.
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To investigate responses to phosphorus and potassium in wheat.
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To compare the movement and potential availability of Mn, Zn and P when supplied as granular or fluid products in a calcareous and non-calcareous soil.
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To discuss PA management.
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To compare the effects of starter fertiliser (ZincStar) on wheat yield at Jil Jil in the southern Mallee district, VIC.
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To report on paddock yield and seeding depth optimisation.
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To present a summary of the recent history and state of pasture improvement due to soil fertility in high rainfall Victoria.
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To demonstrate that is possible to grow a viable winter crop and still maintain a productive lucerne stand over summer.
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To investigate the idea of Pasture Cropping (PC), which involves seeding a crop into an existing summer-active pasture stand without killing the pasture.
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To investigate herbicide options on newly sown pasture crops at three sites.
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The aim of this project was to assess parture herbicide tolerance at Charlton in 2000.
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This trial aimed to compare the production of different annual legumes in the West Midlands and the associated seed loss to native budworm particularly in regards to serradella.
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To discuss how to achieve a dense medic dominant pasture.
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To discuss options for pasture management.
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To assess the relative production of a range of commonly grown pasture species.