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The aims of these experiments were to determine:

• the potential effect of natural enemies on insect pests

• any long-term effects from insecticide seed treatments on natural enemies

• any differences in natural enemies and pest distribution.
 

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Pest Management Pest Management Aphids
Wagga Wagga, ACT
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This paper addresses three issues:

  • The challenges facing high input farming systems,
  • How valid is biological farming as an alternative, and
  • Can high input farming and alternative methods be integrated?
None: No crop specified 1 trial Management systems Management systems Biological farming systems / Organics
Birchip, VIC
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To help put the grower in the best possible position to make decisions on the need for, and timing of budworm control.

None: No crop specified 1 trial Insecticide Insecticide Type Pest Management Pest Management Nematodes/other soil borne insects
Walpeup, VIC
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To quantify the contribution of sunflower leaves to yield and oil quality through the application of twelve leaf defoliation treatments.

Sunflowers are generally considered a minor crop in the NSW northern grains region. However, they play an important role in providing a broadleaf summer crop rotation option. An individual sunflower p… read more

Oilseed: Sunflower 2 trials Crop Crop Variety
Pine Ridge, NSW
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To quantify the contribution of different sunflower leaves to yield and oil quality by applying 12 leaf defoliation treatments.

Sunflowers are generally considered a minor crop in the northern grains region. However, they play an important role in providing a broadleaf summer crop rotation option. An individual sunflower plant produces… read more

Oilseed: Sunflower 2 trials Crop Crop Variety
Willow Tree, NSW
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To evaluate if direct heading canola lowers the snail population captured in the harvester.

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Harvest Harvest Method
Keith, SA
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to produce sustainable management guidelines to control pests, weeds and diseases while retaining stubble to maintain or improve soil health, and reduce exposure to wind erosion. The major outcome to be achieved is increased knowledge … read more

Forage: Medic 1 trial Stubble Stubble Management
Mt Cooper, SA Red loam
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Aims:

  • To assess the value of a number of treatments in controlling slug numbers.
  • To assess the impact of these treatments on canola yield. 

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Insecticide Insecticide Application Method Management systems Management systems Integrated pest management
Gnarwarre, VIC
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A long-term study was established at the Minnipa Agricultural Centre from 2008 to 2016 (EPFS Summaries 2008 to 2015) to assess the systems impact of grazing on crop and pasture production, and soil health. 

Cereal (Grain): Wheat 1 trial Fertiliser Fertiliser Rate Grazing Grazing Application Method Sowing Sowing Rate
Minnipa Agricultural Centre, SA Red sandy loam
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To maintain or improve crop production through applying alternative weed, disease and pest control options in pasture wheat rotations in the presence of crop residues. The trial was established in 2013 with different stubble treatments imposed at harvest and was sown either inter row or in row with wheat in 2014.

Cereal (Grain): Wheat 1 trial Sowing Sowing Method Stubble Stubble Management
Minnipa Agricultural Centre, SA Red loam
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to produce sustainable management guidelines to control pests, weeds and diseases while retaining stubble to maintain or improve soil health, and reduce exposure to wind erosion. The major outcome to be achieved is increased knowledge … read more

Cereal (Grain): Wheat 1 trial Stubble Stubble Management
Minnipa Agricultural Centre, SA Red sandy loam
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to produce sustainable management guidelines to control pests, weeds and diseases while retaining stubble to maintain or improve soil health, and reduce exposure to wind erosion. The major outcome to be achieved is increased knowledge … read more

Cereal (Grain): Barley 1 trial Stubble Stubble Management
Minnipa Agricultural Centre, SA Red sandy loam
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to produce sustainable management guidelines to control pests, weeds and diseases while retaining stubble to maintain or improve soil health, and reduce exposure to wind erosion. The major outcome to be achieved is increased knowledge … read more

Cereal (Grain): Barley 1 trial Sowing Sowing Method Stubble Stubble Management
Minnipa Agricultural Centre, SA Red loam
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To investigate the effectiveness of common fertiliser spreaders to evenly distribute snail/slug bait products to achieve recommended numbers of baits per square metre.

None: No crop specified 2 trials Insecticide Insecticide Application Method
Waite campus, SA Warooka, SA
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To give farmers a bettter understanding of the different pest management tools available and to identify which work bets in certain circumstances.

Cereal (Grain): Wheat 1 trial Insecticide Insecticide Application Method
Charlton, VIC
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To give farmers a better understanding of the different pest management tools available and identify which work best in certain circumstances.

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Insecticide Insecticide Application Method
Charlton, VIC
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The key aims of this project have been to develop agronomic guidelines and seeding technology solutions which can allow for increased stubble retention practices, thereby reducing the dependence on burning.

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Harvest Harvest Method Soil Preparation Soil Preparation Tillage Sowing Sowing Row Spacing Stubble Stubble Management
Inverleigh, VIC
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The objective of the project is to support the introduction and scale up of commercial cultivation of Linseed in the Great Southern region of Western Australia and will support a larger initiative developed by Southern Dirt to develop a localised Linseed supply chain to take the crop from paddock to consumer on the back of renewed demand for Lin… read more

Oilseed: Linseed 8 trials Crop Crop Variety Fertiliser Fertiliser Rate Sowing Sowing Rate Sowing Sowing Timing
Darkan, WA Katanning, WA Kojonup, WA Wagin, WA
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To investigate the effect of various fallow management treatments on crop establishment and yield, weed and pest management and nitrogen management in retained stubble systems in a medium rainfall zone in the South-East of South Australia.

Grain Legume: Faba beans Cereal (Grain): Barley 6 trials Stubble Stubble Management
Bordertown, SA Keith, SA Struan, SA
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To investigate the effect of fallow management treatments on crop establishment and yield, weed and pest management and nitrogen management in retained stubble systems in the high rainfall zone in the South-East of South Australia.

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Stubble Stubble Management
Millicent, SA
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To screen seed treatments for pest and disease management in mungbean.

Grain Legume: Mung beans 2 trials Crop Crop Type Pest Management
Mullaley, NSW
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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

Forage: Medic 1 trial Herbicide Herbicide Type
Kyancutta, SA Sandy loam
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To determine the comparative performance of alternative crops and pastures as pest and disease breaks in an intensive cereal phase. In low rainfall regions of south-eastern Australia broad-leaf crops make up only a very small proportion of the total area of sown crops. 

Cereal (Grain): Wheat 1 trial Crop Crop Type
Minnipa Agricultural Centre, SA Red sandy clay loam
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To determine the comparative performance of alternative crops and pastures as pest and disease breaks in an intensive cereal phase. 

Cereal (Grain): Wheat 1 trial Crop Crop Type
Minnipa Agricultural Centre, SA Red sandy clay loam
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To test and develop farming systems where retained stubble is managed in the HRZ without a reduction in profitability for the grower

Oilseed: Canola 2 trials Stubble Stubble Management
Inverleigh, VIC Westmere, VIC
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To investigate whether weed management outside a cropping area provide benefits to growers in terms of lower weed burden, pest and disease risk within crop fields and an associated reduction in herbicide and pesticide inputs with an increase in economic returns?

Other: Not specified 1 trial Crop Crop Type Management systems
Condobolin, NSW
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  • To investigate the efficacy of several commercial snail baits on juveniles of the four pest snail species, and assess the effect of bait size and density on mortality.
  • To conduct preliminary trials to investigate the usefulness of caffeine and Perlka as additional snail management tools.

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Insecticide Insecticide Type Pest Management Pest Management Slugs/Snails
Roseworthy, SA
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Issue upper EP farmers identified as a problem was sowing into retained pasture residue with pasture vines causing issues with blockages at sowing and uneven germination. The trial at Mount Cooper was designed to compare crop establishment and production, and weed and pest control effectiveness in the presence and absence of legume pasture resid… read more

Cereal (Grain): Wheat 1 trial Stubble Stubble Management
Mt Cooper, SA Red loam
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There are three non-burning and non-mechanical techniques most commonly employed in harvest weed seed control (HWSC) systems: chaff dumping, chaff lining and chaff tram-lining. The highest adoption of HWSC is in the GRDC western region with an estimated 67% of all farmers undertaking at least one HWSC strategy in 2014.

Chaff dumping is… read more

Cereal (Grain): Barley Cereal (Grain): Wheat Oilseed: Canola 498 trials Harvest Harvest Method Management systems Management systems Integrated pest management
Chaff Dump 1- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 10- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 11- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 12- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 13- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 14- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 15- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 16- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 17- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 18- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 19- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 2- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 20- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 3- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 4- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 5- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 6- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 7- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 8- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Dump 9- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 1- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 10- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 11- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 12- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 13- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 14- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 15- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 16- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 17- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 18- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 19- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 2- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 20- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 21- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 22- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 23- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 24- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 25- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 26- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 27- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 28- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 29- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 3- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 30- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 31- Kwinana East Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 32- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 33- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 34- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 35- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 36- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 37- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 38- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 39- Kwinana West Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 4- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 5- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 6- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 7- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 8- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Line 9- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 1- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 10- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 11- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 12- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 13- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 14- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 15- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 16- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 17- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 18- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 19- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 2- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 20- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 21- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 22- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 23- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 24- Geraldton Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 3- Albany Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 4- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 5- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 6- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 7- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 8- Esperance Port Zone, WA Chaff Tram-Line 9- Esperance Port Zone, WA
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  • To gain an indication of the distribution of some beneficial species across the region.
  • To gain an appreciation of what beneficial species occur in the different ecosystems.
  • To investigate the potential role of native grasslands in assisting to control pests in agricultural crops and pastures

Hay: Clover Cereal: Mixed species 4 trials Management systems Management systems Integrated pest management
Inverleigh, VIC
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To investigate the production, management and profitability of three different pulse crops.

Tottenham, NSW
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To investigate the feasibility of utilising image data, collected using UAVs, to make timely management decisions relating to slug damage in emerging canola.

Oilseed: Canola 1 trial Management systems Management systems Integrated pest management Technology Technology Drone
Inverleigh, VIC
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