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To evaluate fungicide seed treatments for the control of seed transmitted Botrytis seedling blight in chickpeas.
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To evaluate fungicide seed treatments for the control of seed transmitted Botrytis seedling blight in chickpeas.
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To evaluate fungicide seed treatments for the control of seed transmitted Botrytis seedling blight in chickpeas.
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To investigate whether a break crop can be used to manage weeds.
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Farming systems in the low rainfall zone of southern Australia are dominated by cereal production. There is increasing concern about grass weed and soil-borne disease pressure, diminishing soil fertility (particularly nitrogen), and water use efficiency, as a result of continuously cropping cereals. Break crops have a key role to play in address… read more
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To challenge this notion, and to examine the impacts of break crops on the longer-term financial performance of following wheat crops.
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To determine the effect of different cropping sequences to continuous cropping.
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To report on results of a visit by Wayne Hawthorne (esteemed pulse expert from Pulse Australia) to Kangaroo Island.
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To evaluate herbicide mixtures for the control of problem broadleaf weeds in chickpeas. Specifically Mexican Poppy.
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To evaluate herbicide mixtures for the control of problem broadleaf weeds in Chickpea. Specifically Climbing Buckwheat and Sowthistle.
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To evaluate options for Tribulus control in sorghum.
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To evaluate options for Tribulus control in sorghum.
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To evaluate in-crop options for Tribulus spp. control.
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To evaluate in-crop options for Tribulus spp. control.
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To evaluate options for Tribulus control in sorghum.
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To evaluate options for Tribulus control in sorghum.
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To determine the most cost effective herbicide in wheat (Meering) to control the most common weeds found in the Southern Mallee/northern Wimmera
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To determine the most cost effective herbicide in wheat (Meering) to control the most common weeds found in the southern Mallee/northern Wimmera.
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To evaluate herbicide options for difficult to control weeds in chickpeas.
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To evaluate herbicide options for difficult to control weeds in chickpeas.
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To determine the best technique for controlling brome grass in wheat and barley.
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To compare the grass weed control of various herbicides and compare crop safety and grain yield on wheat at Penong and barley at Mangalo.
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To investigate the germination behaviour and seed dormancy of brome grass populations from the Victorian mallee and provide information on control.
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To assess the new herbicide Sakura on Brome grass control/supression in wheat.
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To evaluate a range of herbicide combinations for controlling brome grass in lentils.
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To compare control options for Brome grass in wheat and investigate two new options – Clearfield wheat technology and Atlantis herbicide.
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To compare control options for Brome grass in wheat and barley.
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To measure differences in yield and brome grass control following a numerous years of cultural practice on commercial size trial
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To measure differences in yield and brome grass control following a numerous years of cultural practice on commercial size trial
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To investigate herbicide control options for brome grass control in direct drilled wheat in the Mallee.
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To investigate selection of the right rotation and herbicide strategy for brome grass management.
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To investigate selection of the right rotation and herbicide strategy for brome grass management.
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To quantify how much brome grass seed was retained on plants at different times of harvest.
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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.
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To investigate the threshold temperatures to kill weed seeds, and the temperatures achieved when burning crop residues in various formats to faciliate weed seed control of problematic weeds in low rainfall cropping systems.
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To assess the effectiveness of liquid calcium products on yeild in wheat.
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To investigate whether agronomy can overcome the yield penalty of retained (F2) TT hybrid canola compared with purchased (F1) hybrid seed by using;
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To investigate the potential of using a modified delving operation, which rips the clay and allows topsoil/gravel to fall back into the clay slot, to create a subsurface drainage line through the clay and reduce waterlogging.
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Investigate the effect of row spacing up to 66cm in two hybrid varieties at two different seeding rates to determine if row spacing or plant density can ameliorate the effect of sclerotinia stem rot, with or without fungicide application.
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To compare the productivity and profitability of cropping in the presence of a background of herbicide resistant ryegrass, and to assess the implications of various low or high input grass control options applied to wheat and break crops on production costs and ryegrass management.
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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 determine which ameliorant practice is the most effective and economic in remediating subsoil acidity at depth.
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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 investigate yield and phenology of canola varieties when sown in March to provide better advice to agronomists and growers about the best varieties to use and safe sowing and flowering windows.
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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 compare the performance of commercial hybrid seed against farmer retained (F1) seed using conventional, triazine and imidazalinone tolerant varieties.
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To assess the effect of blackleg on canola crops and varieties in the south east of SA.
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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 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 test a range of early maturing canola cultivars.
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To assess the efficacy of foliar, on-seed and on-fertiliser commercially available fungicides on blackleg control in retained stubble systems.
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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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To investigate:
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To discuss canola variety selection for 2007.
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To demonstrate how soil inversion using a mouldbaord plough could be used to incorporate lime into acidic subsoil, overcome soil water repellance and control weeds and to measure its in=mpact and growth.
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To compare the plant density response of yield and oil content between hybid canola in TT and RR herbicide tolerance groups.
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To evaluate a number of seed dressings in canola.
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To demonstrate three different techniques of sowing canola to determine seed placement and the effect on yield.
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To demonstrate the relative performances of the three canola options available to Western Australian growers
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To control weeds without compromising crop yield.
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To evaluate different canola varieties for yield and grain quality.
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To assess the performance of newly released canola varieties in the West Midlands.
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To test 8 TT varieties of hybrid and open pollinated canola.
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To better determine the impact of green peach aphid feeding damage in the absence of virus on canola yield and seed quality.
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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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To investigate swathing early then harvesting for weed seed collection to evaluate usefulness for farmers in providing another tool for integrated weed management, especially for barley grass that matures and sheds seed before crops ripen.
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Barley grass continues to be a major grass weed in cereal cropping regions on the upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). Swathing a cereal crop involves cutting and collecting the cereal crop and weeds into windrows at 20 to 40% grain moisture and allowing it to dry. Having the weed seeds cut and in the windrow before the seed heads shatter and before tille… read more
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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 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 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 provide advice on cereal stubble for grain legumes.
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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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On the upper Eyre Peninsula (UEP), highly calcareous soils constitute a high proportion (more than 1 million hectares) of soils used for agricultural production (Bertrand et al. 2000, Bertrand et al. 2003). The website ‘Yield Gap Australia’ (http://yieldgapaustralia.com.au/maps/) identifies that the average grain yield on W… read more
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To test if there were potential yield responses and possible money to be gained by increasing fertiliser rates, testing new products and other seeding techniques like fluid fertilisers.
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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 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 determine the optimum disease management strategy for Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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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 demonstrate the effectiveness of newly registered fungicides on ascochyta in chickpeas.
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To demonstrate the effectiveness of newly registered fungicides on ascochyta in chickpeas.
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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 maximise production advantages of new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties through the identification of optimum sowing dates and plant densities.