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Agronomic constraints threaten the sustainability of intensive cereal no-till cropping systems. Local research has shown these constraints can be managed by diversifying rotations with break crops, however as this research was conducted at only one site, farmers wanted to know whether the same results would be observed on a commercial scale at a… read more
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To investigate the suitability and profitability of alternative legume crops in the Western Region.
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To investigate the suitability and profitability of alternative legume crops in the Western Region.
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The aim of this experiment was to determine the Critical Growth Period (CGP) of field-grown canola so that sowing date and variety can be selected to ensure that the CGP (the period when the crop is most sensitive to environmental stresses) occurs when the growing environment is likely to be the most favourable (a balance between adequate moistu… read more
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To dicusss developments in herbicide resistance and new products.
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To report on the results of recent herbicide resistance ryegrass surveys.
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To evaluate Diuron as a broadleaf weed killer pre sowing of lupins and to evaluate some mixing partners to improve the control of grass weeds.
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To compare conventional practice with an alternative pre-plant N fertiliser placement in relation to the irrigated furrow, to investigate the potential impact on soil mineral N concentrations and consequent N2O emissions.
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To compare conventional practice with two alternative pre-plant N fertiliser placements in relation to the irrigated furrow, to investigate the potential impact on soil mineral N concentrations, nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, and cotton production.
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To assess the effect that N fertiliser timing (all applied pre-planting vs pre-planting + in-crop) had on soil N2O emissions and cotton production.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of pre-emergent herbicides and crop safety in dry sowing conditions.
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To investigate the effect of early or delayed sowing on reduction of ryegrass numbers in combination with different pre-emergent herbicides.
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To investigate the effect of early or delayed sowing on reduction of ryegrass numbers in combination with different preemergent herbicides.
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To investigate the effect of early or delayed sowing on reduction of ryegrass numbers in combination with different pre-emergent herbicides
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To investigate the influence that sowing date had on the phenology, grain yield and quality of 12 wheat genotypes.
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The aim of this experiment was to determine the effect of sowing time, barley density and herbicides on brome grass control.
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To investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, seed rate and herbicides on the management of brome grass in faba beans.
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This field trial was undertaken Frances in SA, a high rainfall environment, to investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, cultivar, seed rate and herbicides on the management of annual ryegrass in triazine tolerant canola.
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To investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, seed rate and herbicides on the management of annual ryegrass in faba beans.
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This field trial at Roseworthy was undertaken to investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, seed rate and herbicides on the management of annual ryegrass in wheat.
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To quantify the drymatter potential of seven long season cereal crops before stem elongation is reached and to determine the impact on grain yield if heavy grazing occurs at GS31.
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To investigate the interaction between three sowing methods/planting arrangements and herbicides on ryegrass control in wheat.
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To investigate the effect of seeding systems on improving ryegrass management with pre-emergence herbicides in wheat.
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To investigate the influence of rate, application timing and soil type of the activity of Lure H20 as a pre-sow soil wetting agent in the cropping phase.
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To investigate the effects of crop row spacing, seedbed utilisation and pre-emergent herbicides on ryegrass management in wheat.
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To evaluate the efficacy and crop safety of alternative pre-emergence herbicides under knife-point and disc seeding systems.
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To investigate the effects of variety selection, time of sowing, plant density and herbicide strategies on brome grass competition with canola.
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This field trial was undertaken at Mallala (SA) to investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, seed rate and herbicides on the management of brome grass in wheat.
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Change in sowing time can have multiple effects on crop-weed competition. Delayed sowing can provide opportunities to kill greater proportion of weed seedbank before seeding the crop, but weeds that establish in late sown crops can be more competitive on a per plant basis. This is one of reasons why farmers who have adopted early seeding have re… read more
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Investigate the impact of sowing time, seed rate and herbicide treatments on the management of annual ryegrass in barley in a low rainfall environment.
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To investigate the impact of integration of sowing time and seed rate of barley with pre-emergent herbicides on ryegrass density and seed production as well as on barley grain yield.
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To investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, seed rate and herbicides on the management of annual ryegrass in wheat.
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To investigate the impact of integration of sowing time and seed rate of barley with pre-emergent herbicides on brome grass density and seed production as well as on barley grain yield.
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This field trial at Frances was undertaken to investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, seed rate and herbicides on the management of annual ryegrass in barley.
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To evaluate the crop safety and efficacy on annual ryegrass of soil-incorporated pre-emergent herbicides in dry and wet sowing conditions.
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To demonstrate the effect of seeder type and operation on the efficacy and safety of pre-emergent herbicides in barley.
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To assess whether phosphorus utilisation can be enhanced through the use of liquids, compound fertilisers and slow release coated fertiliser options.
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To re-establish plant diversity on salt affected soils on a large farm scale trial using “seeded” clay balls.
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To evaluate the interaction between seeding systems and pre-emergence herbicides on the establishment of wheat, on two contrasting soil types.
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To compare EverGol Prime, Vibrance and Tripower to Baytan T for loose smut contol and to compare EverGol Prime to triazole seed treatments for Rhizoctonia suppression.
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To predict the risk of PRR disease and potential yield losses in chickpea, and detect P. med inoculum in soil from commercial paddocks.
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To compare the effectiveness and cost of several pre and post emergent herbicides on the control of Silvergrass in Gairdner barley in a replicated trial.
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To evaluate the performance of several different pre-emergent herbicides and their mixtures on brome infestation in barley.
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To provide growers with information which will reduce losses due to eyespot by improving our understanding of:
• Resistance responses of commercial cultivars and breeders’ lines to eyespot.
• Yield losses due to eyespot in cultivars with different resistance rankings for eyespot.
• The effectiveness of delayed fungic… read more
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To report on the faba bean variety trial at Hamilton.
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To compare the level of herbicide tolerance in PBA Bendoc (an imidazoline tolerant faba bean variety) against the newly released line PBA Amberley (tested as AF11023) to pre and post emergent applications of GpC at various rates.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of fungicide seed dressings and in-furrow treatments against cercospora leaf spot in faba bean.
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To invesigate the tolerance of a newly released faba bean variety PBA Bendoc to post sowing pre-emergence (PSPE) and in-crop application timings of Group B herbicides in comparison with PBA Samira.
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To investigate if the effects of rates and granule size of copper containing superphosphate on wheat yields grown on yellow brown gravelly soil persist into following year.
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To investigate factors driving nitrous oxide emissions from uncropped (head ditch and tail drain) areas of irrigated cotton fields after water-run urea application.
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To compare the yields of crops in southern Mallee farming systems in 2009.
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To compare the yields of crops in the southern Mallee under various farming systmes in 2010.
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To investigate the effect of post-sowing pre-emergent herbicides and post emergent herbicides on fenugreek growth and yield and weed control.
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To assess weed control and fenugreek tolerance of several herbicide mixes and to screen new fenugreek varieties for tolerance to commonly used herbicides.
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To evaluate how incorporation method impacts on the emergence of annual ryegrass from the furrow wall for various pre sowing grass herbicide mixtures in wheat.
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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
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To grow chickpeas on eastern Eyre Peninsula.
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To determine the agronomic conditions required to grow a quality barley product suitable for malting.
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ 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 when stubbles and organic residues intercept the herbicide and prevent i… read more
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ 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 when stubbles and organic residues intercept the herbicide and prevent i… read more
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to improve farm profitability while retaining stubble in farming systems on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). One of the barriers to retaining stubble is the perceived reduction in pre-emergent herbicide effectiveness (efficacy) in stubbles. … read more
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To assess the efficacy of three herbicide types on stubble covered soil.
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To identify herbicide sensitivities of new lupin varieties with the view to reduce their yield losses due to herbicide damage. Mandelup was included as a standard variety for comparison in the trial.
Blue lupins are problematic in narrow leave lupin production, especially in the Northern Agriculture Region of WA Wheatbelt and no herbic… read more
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To identify herbicide sensitivities of new lupin varieties with the view to reduce their yield losses due to herbicide damage. Mandelup was included as a standard variety for comparison in the trial.
Blue lupins are problematic in narrow leave lupin production, especially in the Northern Agriculture Region of WA Wheatbelt and no herbic… read more
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To determine the herbicide tolerance of Morava, Blanchefleur and Languedoc vetch.
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To investigate a range of herbicides on crop tolerances in three chickpea varieties.
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To trial a number of herbicide treatments applied to field peas, chickpeas, lentils and lupins to determine effective weed control and their effects on the crops.
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Barley grass continues to be a persistent grassy weed in low rainfall farming systems and current farming practices have selected for increased seed dormancy. This change in seed dormancy has resulted in Barley grass germinating later, and being much harder to control with knockdown and pre-emergent herbicides. In 2018 a range of herbicide strat… read more
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To compare the efficacy and crop safety of various pre-sowing herbicide mixes on grassy weeds in a dry sowing situation for wheat, and followed the treatments through to final grain yield.
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To quantify how nitrogen application and timing (upfront versus stem elongation) influences the need for disease control in a susceptible wheat cultivar.
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To assess the value of pre and post GS30 defoliation in winter and spring germplasm grown in HRZ regions of different season lengths using 17th April sowing date.
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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 assess the chemical control options for effective control of onion weed without cultivation.
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To evaluate the relative competitiveness of durum wheat compared to barley and bread wheat, against annual ryegrass grown under different management practices tailored to influence crop competition.
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To investigate improvements for pre-emergent herbicide spray coverage in stubble retention systems.
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To investigate second adaptive traits (their yield, how to measure them and how to implement them into the breeding program) for grain legume drought tolerance.
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To increase the yield and reliability of field pea under water deficit and is a major pre-breeding target of Pulse Breeding
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To evaluate the effect of crop stubble management and seeding system on pre-emergent herbicide behaviour and crop safety.
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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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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 investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, varieties and seed rate with herbicide strategies for ryegrass management.
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To report on what has been learnt about growing kikuyu on Kangaroo Island.
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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 compare the tolerance of legumes and canola varieties to a range of herbicides and timings.
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This project set out to contribute to an understanding of legume agronomic and financial management in the Esperance Port Zone in an effort to support the decision-making process undertaken by growers in deciding the best crop sequence for their farms, including which break crop best suits their needs.
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To identify crop safety levels and economic risk of pre- and post-emergent herbicide use on lentil across different soil types and environments in the southern low rainfall zone. This project builds on previous GRDC-funded projects, including DAV00113 (southern region pulse agronomy).
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To evaluate the tolerance of PBA Hurricane XT to post sowing pre-emergent and in-crop application timings of Group B herbicides in comparison with PBA Jumbo2.
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To evaluate enhanced tolerance of PBA Hallmark XT compared to PBA Jumbo2 to Group B herbicides applied post sowing pre emergence (PSPE) or at different in-crop application timings.
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To compare the level of herbicide tolerance in SP1333 (a new genotype with improved tolerance to Group C herbicides) against PBA Hallmark XT to pre- and post-emergent applications of ‘Gp C’ at various rates.
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To compare the performance of three seeding systems and two nitrogen (N) strategies.
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To compare no till farming techniques against conventional farming methods over 5 different cropping rotations: No-till • all weed control by herbicides or narrow windrow burning • sown with NDF single disc seeder • stubble retained where possible Conventional • weed control both by herbicides and cultivation • sown with NDF single … read more
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To demonstrate whether current seeder set ups within the region are capable of successfully sowing wheat into a pasture with no-till.