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To investigate the fit of high value pulse crops (faba bean, lentil, and chickpea) in the sowing program and their rotational (agronomic and economic) benefits to the following cereal crop.
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To asses optimum sowing date and variety type for Canola for the South West Slopes region of NSW
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To test if no-till crops grown on clay soils in the low rainfall, southern Mallee environment would yield better if more straw could be retained on the soil surface from the previous crop.
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To evaluate the performance and agronomic attributes of a range of Hybrid and OP canola varieties across different herbicide tolerant technologies over two time of sowing events.
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To assess comparative effect of anthracnose on yield and seed infection in a range of varieties and advanced lupin breeding lines.
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Can systems performance be improved by modifying farming systems in the northern grains region? Specifically, what impact do crop species and crop sequences have on soil- and stubble-borne pathogens?
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Can systems performance be improved by modifying farming systems in thenorthern grains region? What are the impacts of crops and crop sequences on soil water accumulation and use?
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on winter cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To investigate the yield and quality effects of a delayed harvest on a range of barley varieties.
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With larger seeding programs, increased summer weed control to conserve soil moisture and more variable autumn rainfall patterns, more growers Australia-wide are moving toward dry sowing.
On upper Eyre Peninsula in 2017 and 2018, seed was placed in the soil for many weeks with limited soil moisture, some seed still germinated but the d… read more
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To determine the potential toxicity of the fungicide P-Pickel T (PPT) to rhizobia applied as a commercial inoculant (peat and freeze-dried) on field pea (R. leguminosarum, group F) in field conditions in a soil with a low rhizobial background.
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To evaluate the impact of planter type on yield of winter cereals and chickpeas.
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To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil and chickpea varieties and breeding lines to interrow sowing in wider row spacings than conventional cropping systems.
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To analyse the impact of sowing date and variety on the phenology and grain yield of faba beans and lentils in upper Eyre Peninsula.
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To evaluate the impact of planter type, sowing depth and plant population on chickpea production.
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To evaluate the impact of sowing depth, method, plant population and sowing time on chickpea production.
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To evaluate the impact of sowing depth, method, plant population and sowing time on chickpea production.
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To investigate the impact of summer cropping on subsequent winter crop (wheat yield). To dtermine nitrogen (N) response of wheat following summer crops.
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To compare soil moisture, soil nitrogen and profitability of five different vetch end-use treatments from 2012, sown to wheat in 2013.
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To examine the effect of two sowing dates on final Pt populations in a range of durum, bread wheat and barley varieties near Tulloona in north-western NSW in 2015.
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To assess the chemical control options for effective control of onion weed without cultivation.
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To implement the findings of previous work conducted on the establishment of native perennial grasses in the Upper North.
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To assess the impact of different seeding systems on crop establishment in water repellent soil.
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To promote the sowing of persistent perennial grasses on Kangaroo Island properties to:
• improve ground cover in late summer, autumn and winter, and to
• increase pasture water use to minimize soil acidification and salinisation.
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To investigate water repellence mitigation options at seeding. The trial aims to identify the driving chemistries (surfactants vs humectants) and application techniques (furrow surface, vs seed zone) that are better able to lift crop responses under local sowing conditions. This article reports on the Year 1 data, with more work being planned f… read more
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To determine the value of additives or spikes to paraquat versus grasses or broadleaf weeds in the winter fallow.
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To determine the value of additives or spikes to paraquat versus grasses or broadleaf weeds in the winter fallow.
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To determine the value of additives or spikes to paraquat versus grasses or broadleaf weeds in the winter fallow.
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To test the optimum sowing time for long season wheat cultivars uisng three target sowing dates.
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In this experiment, we compare three methods of N supply to wheat:
1. surface spread in front of the seeder (early May)
2. mid-row banding at sowing (early May)
3. surface spread at stem elongation (late July).
The difference method was used to evaluated the efficiency of each.
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With larger seeding programs, increased summer weed control to conserve soil moisture and more variable autumn rainfall patterns, many growers Australia wide are continuing to dry-sow. More traditionally, growers may have previously ‘dabbled a little’ in dry-sowing and are observing with interest the successes and failures of dry-sowing syst… read more
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Aimed at identifying factors limiting the production and nitrogen fixation of pulse crops grown on acidic soils in the high rainfall zone (HRZ) grain production regions of south eastern Australia with a long-term average annual rainfall above 500 mm.
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To determine the value of pasture legumes grown in rotation with crops at Streatham, Gnarwarre and Hamilton
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To evaluate the response of wheat (yield and protein) in different paddock management zones to in-season application of nitrogen fertiliser, using the Yield Prophet system as a guide.
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To evaluate the influence of perennial row spacing and grass suppression on the performance of serradella summer sown into subtropical perennial-grass pastures.
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This trial addresses issues which may be a barrier to early sowing in the region. In particular; 1. What varieties preform well from early sowing? How do winter and long season spring varieties compare? 2.Can early sown crops be managed to avoid excessive vegetative growth and low harvest index, particularly in dry finish? 3. How do early sown y… read more
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To assess the influence of additional Potassium fertiliser (Potassium Sulphate) used in crop on grain yield, tissue and grain concentration on soil with adequate K indices.
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To assess the influence of additional Potassium fertiliser (Potassium Sulphate) used in crop on grain yield, tissue and grain concentration on soil with adequate K indices.
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To establish the interaction between nitrogen and timing and the need for fungicide management.
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To study the influence of seed size on the yield of the faba bean variety PBA Nasma.
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To investigate the sowing date effect on phenology and grain yield of 15 commercially relevant barley varieties compared with nine wheat varieties.
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In 2019, field experiments were conducted across various sites in the GRDC northern grains region (NGR) to determine how phenology influences grain yield responses for a diverse set of wheat genotypes. This paper presents results from the Cudal site (central eastern NSW) and discusses the sowing date influence on the phenology and grain yield… read more
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To investigate the influence of sowing date on the phenology and grain yield responses of a core set of 36 wheat genotypes.
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To support growers with agronomic decisions such as sowing time and variety selection to enhance industry profitability through improved wheat yields and grain quality.
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To support growers with agronomic decisions such as sowing time and variety selection to enhance industry profitability through improved wheat yields and grain quality
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Research on the mainland has shown that sowing lentils in the inter-row in wheat stubble encourages the plant to grow taller in pursuit of sunlight, enabling easier harvest for what is normally a short crop. Although broad beans can be a tall crop, the bottom pods contain the largest beans as these set the earliest and thus have the longest time… read more
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A new project being conducted by the Irrigated Cropping Council, NSW DPI, Deakin University, Murray Local Land Service and Precision Agriculture, with financial support from GRDC, started in July 2014. The long-term objective is to ‘increase grain
production and profitability from surface irrigated soils in the GRDC Southern Region by… read more
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To demonstrate the effects on plant density, nodulation and yield from inoculating legume seed using the correct method, applying inoculum dry and sowing 7 days after inoculating seed.
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To combine existing knowledge with new techniques for effective integrated weed management to control herbicide resistant ryegrass.
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To report on ian ntegrated weed management demonstration - cultural and chemical methods for controlling herbicide resistant annual ryegrass.
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The aim was to investigate ryegrass control using Bayer Sakura 850 WG and other commonly used herbicides in mixtures or as standalone treatments.
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To assess the effectiveness and applicability of cultural control practices prior to crop seeding in combination with pre-emergent herbicides for the management of herbicide resistant annual ryegrass in the high rainfall zone of Victoria.
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To test the viability of establishing lucerne pastures in areas where they have not been traditionally grown.
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To investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, varieties and seed rate with herbicide strategies for ryegrass management.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To test the hypothesis that altered Mn nutrition of barley affects the development of cereal cyst nematode and damage to the host.
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To examine the interaction of Nitrogen management with disease management in winter barley Inverleigh
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To quantify how “upfront” nitrogen application versus application at stem elongation (GS 30-31) influences the need for disease control in varieties of differing disease resistance.
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This experiment has attempted to use rainfall timing (imitated by overhead irrigation) to mitigate the negative weather impacts on
dry matter production both before and after flowering in an early and late summer TOS. A wide gap between TOS was deliberately
used to create the largest contrast in weather conditions that the cro… read more
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To investigate the benefits of speciality phosphorus products and liquid phosphorus options in cereals.
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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
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Examine effect of applying chelated iron to leaves, and chalted iron, zinc, N and P to soils growing irrigated soybean and pigeon pea.
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To assess the effect on yield of wider row spacing and plant populations on canola.
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To evaluate the performance of canola varities under irrigated conditions.
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The project is addressing the improvement of advisor and grower knowledge of high yielding cereal and canola varieties under irrigated
systems and specific agronomic management that will improve profitability of these crops.
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To test the target population for irrigated Durack Oats
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To investigate the question 'Is time of sowing as important in a high decile season'?
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To evaluate a number of winter wheat and shorter season white milling wheat varieties when sown later than the recommended sowing time.
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To showcase to growers different methods for deep incorporation of lime to ameliorate sub surface, below 10cm, acidity and improve soil health.
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to investigate the efficacy of knockdown mixes and timings on the control of ryegrass and broadleaf weeds prior to cropping.
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To investigate the effectiveness of the use of different herbicides and spraying regimes prior to sowing in controlling annual ryegrass and to increase grower awareness of rotating the various knockdown options pre-sowing.
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To investigate the role of the nitrogen stabilisers and plant stimulants on pastures.
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To investigate whether ryegrass seed set could be manipulated using alternative harvesting techniques such as windrowing and crop topping.
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To assess the impact of rhizobial inoculation on the performance of four different legumes: chickpeas, lentils, faba beans and peas in the Victorian Wimmera.
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To demonstrate the need for innoculation with rhizobia in a range of crop legumes.
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To assess the advantages of new lentil varieties with current standards and a field pea at different sowing times and on varying soil types.
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To assess the advantages of new lentil varieties with current standards and a field pea at different sowing times and on varying soil types.