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To determine which ameliorant practice is the most effective and economic in remediating subsoil acidity at depth.
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To present actual farming results from a large cropping program in the Condobolin area in central NSW.
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To identify key ingredients of agronomic packages that deliver high yielding wheat crops with good quality in the Parndana environment.
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To investigate the quesion 'Can we reduce our P inputs?’
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To answer the question: can you affod to lime?
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To study the effect of a 1994 canola stubble on a subsequent wheat cop, and was compared against a 1994 chickpea stubble.
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To determine whether the chemical 'Cultar' was effective at reducing the lodging tendency of canola and to measure the effect on yield and oil content.
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To test a range of early maturing canola cultivars.
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To test the effectiveness of broadcasting canola into wheat stubble as a method of establishing a canola crop
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The aim of the trial was to determine the effect of growth regulators on crop height, grain yield and oil content of canola.
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To investigate:
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To discuss how to minimise risk while maximising yields.
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To investigate the effect of nutrition and disease management on canola yield and quality at Westmere in 2014.
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To determine the effect of plant growth regulators on irrigated canola.
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To evaluate options to manage risk in canola crops without yield penalty, such as:
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To evaluate a number of seed dressings in canola.
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To control weeds without compromising crop yield.
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To investigate the level of damage that may occur from clethodim applications and what factors might influence the degree of damage, over two seasons
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To comment on canola varieties for 2008.
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To evaluate different canola varieties for yield and grain quality.
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This trial compares a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that are potentially
suitable for growing in southern Victoria.
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The canola variety trial at Inverleigh compares a number of commercially available Triazine Tolerant and Clearfield canola varieties.
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This trial had the objective of examining how different crop canopies influenced the need for disease control in winter wheat.
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The aim of these experiments is to examine how tillage intensity influences allocation and stabilisation (storage) of newly assimilated C in canola crop-soil and wheat crop-soil systems at Wagga Wagga and Condobolin.
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An objective of this research was to create a water balance model for white clover seed production. In conjunction with the water balance investigation, determination of $return/ML applied to assess water use efficiency would be studied. Overlaying this research was the aim of assessing current, as well as historical, impacts of irrigation manag… read more
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To compare four locally grown wheat varieties at district practice and high seeding rates to assess their influence on reducing the impact of ryegrass in the whole farming system.
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To investigate the effect of Barley Yellow Dwarf virus on wheat and also to determine teh effect of different fungicide optionson leaf diseases on wheat.
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To assess the impact of BYDV on wheat yield and also the effect of a range of fungicide treatments on wheat yield during 2009.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To investigate the impact of On-Duty residues, both in the presence and absence of an in-season Glean application, on the subsequent wheat or barley crop and in doing so test for varietal tolerance differences.
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To examine the effect of increasing inputs for crop varieties representing APW wheat, oats, triticale and a new wheat investigating the prospects for ethanol production from wheat, on profitability for growers on a sandy soil with a highly acidic subsoil in the Liebe Group area.
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To investigate the impact that stubble treatments (burning, cultivation, harrowed/flattened or standing stubble) imposed towards the end of the fallow have on the yield of winter crops.
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To present the Cereal Variety Disease Guide for 2011.
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To provide a cereal variety disease guide for 2012.
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To explore chaff cart benefits in a mixed system
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To determine the level of herbicide resistance to selective in-crop herbicides in annual ryegrass across western Victoria using random weed surveys.
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To assess the effects of physical (spading), chemical (fertiliser) and biological (compost) treatments on soil organic carbon (SOC) in relation to changes in long term crop yields and quality.
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To observe the early growth and establishment of wheat as well as final yield when seed was treated with Rancona C compared to other products or the untreated.
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To economically, increase cereal crop yields on poor performing sand rises incorporating chicken manure at sowing in the in cropping paddocks.
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To assess the optimum fungicide management strategy for new varieties of chickpea.
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To screen fertiliser and plant growth regulators for biomass management and yield of chickpea.
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To screen fertiliser and plant growth regulators for biomass management and yield of chickpea.
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To screen fertiliser and plant growth regulators for biomass management and yield of chickpea.
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To evaluate yields and quality of new and existing chickpea varieties.
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To determine the optimum disease management strategy for Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To determine the optimum disease management strategy for Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To determine the optimum disease management strategy for Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To determine optimum disease management strategy, focussing on podding applications, in new resistant and moderately resistant desi and kabuli chickpea varieties.
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To maximise production advantages of new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties through the development of appropriate disease management strategies.
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To determine optimum disease management strategy, focussing on podding applications, in new resistant and moderately resistant desi and kabuli chickpea varieties.
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To report on chickpea disease management in the Wimmera, Victoria.
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To determine the relative herbicide tolerance of Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To determine the relative herbicide tolerance of Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To evaluate a range of varieties and advanced PBA breeding lines.
Phytophthora medicaginis, the cause of phytophthora root rot (PRR) of chickpea is endemic and widespread in southern QLD and northern NSW, where it carries over from season to season on infected chickpea volunteers, lucerne, native medics and as resistant structures (oo… read more
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To demonstrate the risk of sowing certain crop types in the year following application of common pre-emergent herbicide mixtures to chickpeas.
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To determine whether seed dressings are useful in suppressing disease and increasing yield in desi and kabuli type chickpeas.
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To determine optimum sowing dates and plant densities of Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To determine safe and effective techniques for uisng Simazine and Trifluralin in Desavic chickpeas.
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To conduct a chickpea variety trial.
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To test chickpea variety yields as part of the Pulse Breeding Australia and National Variety Testing programs.
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To improve and release new ascochyta resistant varieties that will restore the chickpea industry in south east Australia.
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To discuss chickpea variety development.
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To evaluate potential new foliar fungicide spray strategies and varieties for management of aschochyta blight in chickpeas.
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To evaluate fungicide strategies to manage ascochyta blight in chickpea in the low rainfall Mallee environment.
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To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application.
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To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application.
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To evaluate potential new foliar fungicide spray strategies and varieties for management of aschochyta blight in chickpeas.
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To investigate the response of chickpea to application of macro and micro-nutrients on a sandhill and swale soil.
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To look for chickpea plant types which are more competitive with ryegrass.
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To evaluate different commercially available forage crop varieties for their feed value and capacity to recover during winter and spring in a low rainfall Mallee-Wimmera environment.
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To assess changes in crop productivity as a result of overcoming the chemical, physical and biological constraints of a sandy soil at Cadgee.
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To overcome the chemical, physical and biological constraints of sandy soils, with the aim of achieving long term crop productivity gains greater than 70%.
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To compare different clay spreading and tillage methods for the amelioration of water repellent soils.
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To raise awareness and highlight the importance of cleaning boomspray equipment properly after using SU herbicides.
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To compare the yield, oil content and weed control of the CLEARFIELD* Production System (CL*) for Canola and TT canola systems.
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To conduct a pre-release evaluation (crop tolerance testing) of potential new canola quality Brassica juncea varieties (J05Z-08920 and J05Z-08960) for tolerance to the appropriate CLEARFIELD® (imidazolinone) herbicide products.
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To investigate the level of damage that may occur from clethodim applications and what factors might influence the degree of damage, over two seasons
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Trials were implemented to compare break crop productivity and profitability on major soil types in the northern South Australian Mallee. This information will help farmers in this region to select the most appropriate break crop for their farming system.
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Trials were implemented to compare break crop productivity and profitability on major soil types in the northern South Australian Mallee. This information will help farmers in this region to select the most appropriate break crop for their farming system.
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To compare break crop productivity and profitability on major soil types in the northern South Australian Mallee.
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To look at canopy management and its integration with disease management principles in the different climates of southern Australia.
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The trial was designed to investigate a range of techniques that may improve crop establishment and performance on non wetting sandy soils. The techniques tested included mouldboard ploughing, winged knife points, and H2O Lure. The trial also compared the second year affect of mouldboard ploughing to first year response..
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To determine whether crop establishment and grain yield gains from claying can be further improved by matching the clay rich subsoil application rate with the incorporation method.
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To compare the productivity and relative profitability of various low input/low risk cropping options with alternative high input/high risk, but potentially higher return crops.
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The aim of this project is for the Corrigin Farm Improvement Group (CFIG) to identify the best method to increase soil and crop performance in non-wetting soils in the Corrigin area.
This project was funded through the Wheatbelt NRM Sustainable Agriculture Trials and Demonstrations Project during the 2016 season.
This demonst… read more