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To investigate the effect of various combinations of nitrogen, phosphorus fertiliser on grain yield.
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To improve grower productivity and industry sustainability through the successful adoption of improved barley cultivars through the development of improved agronomy practices and packages for new and current varietal releases and by aligning production with market and industry requirements.
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To demonstrate best management practices that can give barley the best possible start from deeper sowing.
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To examine the appropriate management combinations of sowing date, nitrogen rate and timing required to maximise yield and quality in new malt varieties and food variety Hindmarsh.
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To help to build a strong database of knowledge for targeted variety management, which will give advisors and growers confidence to try new varieties as they become available.
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To assess the yields of a range of agronomic treatments on barley varieties at different sites.
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To assess the yields of a range of agronomic treatments on barley varieties at different sites.
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To assess the yield of a range of agronomic treatments on barley at several sites.
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To evaluate the responses of seven barley cultivars to three times of sowing (TOS): early, mid and late and assess their suitability to the Wimmera Mallee.
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To understand the potential impact of these factors and whether this tendency can be controlled with the use of plant growth regulators (PGRs).
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The GRDC Stubble project aims to improve farm profitability while retaining stubble in farming systems on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). Weed control in stubble retained systems is an issue with reduced herbicide efficacy due to higher stubble loads especially for pre-emergence herbicides. Current farming practices have also changed weed behaviour w… read more
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The GRDC ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ project aims to improve farm profitability while retaining stubble in farming systems on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). Weed control in stubble retained systems can be compromised where herbicide efficacy is limited due to higher stubble loads, especia… read more
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To evaluate the potential of combining summer-growing perennial grasses with a cereal in a pasture cropping system in the Mallee.
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To investigate the irrigation water requirements of a barley crop and the impact that plant density, nitrogen (N), irrigation
intensity and waterlogging have on grain yield and quality, water use and water productivity.
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To assess the level of input required to maximise yields of barley grown after wheat.
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To assess the response of six barley varieties treated with five different N rates at sowing.
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To compare the competing demands of timeliness of sowing versus sowing to maximise establishment (deep versus dry sowing, or waiting for adequate rainfall later in the season).
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To determine whether late sown cereal crops reqire higher rate of P.
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To evaluate tolerance of barley to acid and aluminium toxicity.
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To compare the performance of new and existing barley varieties and the influence of sowing time
on crop performance.
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Evaluation of barley varities under irrigated conditions.
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To evaluate a range of commercially available varieties. These reflect the most widely grown varieties in the area and include others that may be considered in the future. They include a number of different grades, reflecting market options in Southern Victoria.
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To assess the value of an insecticide programme on the control of barley yellow dwarf virus in wheat.
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To demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of new pre-emergen chemistry, Bayer 191, in reducing resistant ryegass populations in winter cereals.
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To determine optimum sowing dates and sowing densities for maximising yield of new faba bean varieties in high rainfall areas.
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To determine the most effective way to apply nutrients (granular, banded, top dressed or liquid) on non-wetting soils after amelioration, in the Geraldton Port Zone.
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To determine the most effective way to apply nutrients (granular, banded, top dressed or liquid) on non-wetting soils after amelioration, in the Geraldton Port Zone.
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Demonstrate best practice phalaris establishment and management at the PPS/EverGraze site at Mooneys Gap which should provide information to producers to give them confidence to increase phalaris use.
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To build resilience into EP farms by understanding the interactions between soil potential, climate and management.
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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 assess the effect of blackleg in canola crops and varieties in the south east of SA
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To assess wether field pea breeding advancements in resistance to blackspot are significant enough to allow management changes to sowing time in this crop.
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To report on blackspot manager – release of blackspot spores from pea stubbles.
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To examine boosting pulse crop performance on acidic soils.
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To examine if winter cereals can be successfully sown into exiting lucerne stands to lift winter production but without compromising lucerne production the following summer.
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To develop varieties of Brassica carinata that are more specifically adapted to Australian conditions to enable commercial quantities of biojet and biodiesel fuels to be produced. This project focuses on genetic selection, adoption and scale-up within Australia.
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To discuss breeding approaches to improving seeding establishment of wheat.
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To develop molecular markers for Zn efficiency.
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To develop lucerne cultivars, specifically for the southern Australian cropping districts, that are compatible with existing farming systems as well as being productive and persistent. The breeding program is focusing on improving tolerance to acidic soils, persistent grazing and establishment with companion crops
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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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The aim was to compare broadcasting as a sowing method with the conventional method of sowing.
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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 selection of the right rotation and herbicide strategy for brome grass management.
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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 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 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 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 better understand yield drivers of canola in eastern Australia by improving the profitability of canola as part of the 'Optimised Canola Profitability (OCP)' project..
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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 compare the plant density response of yield and oil content between hybrid and open-pollinated (OP) canola in Triazine tolerant (TT) and Roundup Ready (RR) herbicide tolerance groups.
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To demonstrate whether current seeder set ups within the region are capable of successfully sowing canola into heavy stubble.
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To evaluate canola varieties.
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To enable growers to evaluate a selected number of varieties under specific local conditions.
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To identify variety x sowing date combinations to achieve optimum flowering window.
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To report on a grower experience of growing canola in the Western NSW.
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To discuss how to minimise risk while maximising yields.
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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.
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To evaluate options to manage risk in canola crops without yield penalty, such as:
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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 determine the optimum sowing time over a number of seasons for karoo and Narendra canola.
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To determine the optimum time of sowing for canola in the southern Mallee.
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To comment on canola varieties for 2008.
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Compare 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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To evaluate a range of new and existing varieties of wheat suitable for early- and mid-sowing in Gippsland.
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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 evaluate the feed response of barley and oats to two different N rates applied at sowing and post-sowing, and the economic returns from sheep production.
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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 answer the questions 'What can I do about root diseases between now and sowing?'
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To provide advice on cereal stubble for grain legumes.
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To evaluate which cereal species and variety will produce the most early feed.
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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 determine
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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 the optimum sowing date to reduce effects from abiotic stresses and increase grain yield in chickpea. These experiments also aimed to identify phenological drivers of crop development in chickpea and determine which varieties are best adapted to the target environments.
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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.
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To maximise production advantages of new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties through the identification of optimum plant densities.
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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 maximise production advantages of new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties through the identification of optimum sowing dates and plant densities.
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To investigate and model the effect of time of sowing on grain yields of chickpea and faba bean in southern NSW.
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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 determine safe and effective techniques for using Simazine and Trifluralin on Mallee clay-loams with Lasseter chickpeas.
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To determine the optimum sowing time for chickpeas in the Mallee environment.
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To test the yield response of new varieties of chickpeas and faba beans to different sowing times in southern
NSW.
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To determine optimum sowing dates, plant densities and row space for new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties.