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To evaluate the efficacy in terms of lodging reduction as well as yield enhancement and crop safety of MODDUS when used in cereal crops. Area sprayed across SEPWA Wheat Variety trial and boom strip in Gairdner Barley at Mr Andrew Duncan's property at Mt Madden.
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To report on trials showing the value of nitrogen.
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Barley grass weed density was monitored in three paddocks on upper EP (Minnipa Agricultural Centre (MAC), Heddle’s at Minnipa and Wilkins’ at Yaninee using an UAV during the 2017 (EPFS Summary 2017, p 83) and 2018 growing seasons at three different timings, with paddock transects conducted to verify grass weed density in paddocks.
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Barley grass continues to be a major grass weed in cereal cropping regions on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). The use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology to identify and assess barley grass populations in paddocks and monitor potential resistant populations may be a useful tool for farmers. This approach was tested in three paddocks on upper … read more
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Manganese concentrations in soil and wheat crops were monitored over time in the field.
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To improve our understanding of the interaction between the pathogen life cycle, the host crop and environmental conditions with the view to developing a disease prediction model for industry to use.
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To monitor the performance of nitrogen application to wheat under full stubble retention.
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To monitor the performance of nitrogen application to wheat under full stubble retention.
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This paper aims to summarise the grain yield response and weed control achieved by a one-off soil inversion.
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A trial west of Corrigin has shed some new light on what can happen to crop production in the second year after mouldboard ploughing of non wetting grey sandy soils. Non wetting soils pose a significant challenge to growing crops in many parts of the wheatbelt and crops grown on these soils can suffer poor seedling establishment, poor weed contr… read more
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To explore how much nitrogen is required to maximise mungbean yield and whether well-nodulated mungbean achieve the same yield as fertilised crops.
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To conduct a chickpea demonstration.
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Under the new NVT Pathology Services Agreement 2019–23, the total number of diseases and crop species being screened in NSW has increased. Eight different crop types, both cereal and broadleaf, are annually screened for a total of 17 different diseases across three climatically and agronomically diverse sites within NSW (NSW DPI research st… read more
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This report presents the results of a national field survey of herbicide residues in 40 cropping soils before sowing and pre-emergent herbicide application in 2015. It looks at the relevance of these residues to soil biological processes and crop health with a focus on those herbicides most frequently detected.
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To develop variety specific agronomy packages for the major winter crops in southern NSW with emphasis on agronomic practices that are likely to have a genotype x environment interaction.
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To evaluate the efficacy of new actives in disease control and yield benefits in low (Minnipa, upper Eyre Peninsula) and medium (Hart, Mid-North) rainfall zones in South Australia
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To evaluate the efficacy of new actives in disease control and yield benefits in low (Minnipa, upper Eyre Peninsula) and medium (Hart, Mid-North) rainfall zones in South Australia
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To examine pre-emergent grass weed control herbicides in triazine tolerant canola
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To investigate conventional phosphorus fertilisers and alternative sources of phosphorus on the grain yield and quality of wheat.
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To determine whether adding extra nitrogen (N) at GS31 will bring benefits above the current standard practice of only applying nitrogen at or near sowing in three different Eyre Peninsula (EP) environments.
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To determine the relationship between alternative break crops and root disease.
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To strengthen our knowledge on seasonal changes in the (1) biological value of stubble (2) mineralisation: immobilisation balance (ratio) and (3) the direct supply of N from stubble to crops as influenced by stubble management.
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To discuss nitrogen inputs from pasture and patterns of release for crops.
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To measure nitrogen loss (as ammonia) from volatilisation after top-dressing wheat crops grown on two soil types: sandy loam in the Mallee and Wimmera clay, using different fertiliser types and application rates.
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To test the applicability of the South Australian 'Slide rule' type of arrangement whereby nitrogen requirement of a cereal crop can be quickly estimated before sowing in the Victorian southern Mallee and northern Wimmera.
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To measure and quantify N2O emissions from wheat grown in rotation with canola, pulses and legume pastures at two sites in low and medium/high rainfall farming systems of the Eyre Peninsula, while assessing best management practices that local farmers can adopt to reduce the risk of N2O losses and ultimately improve the paddock’s crop producti… read more
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Agricultural soils are the main source of emission of the greenhouse gas (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere. N2O is a potent GHG which lasts in the atmosphere for 114 years and has a global warming potential of approximately 300 times greater than that of carbon dioxide over a 100 year timescale. Agriculture accounts for 16% of Australi… read more
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To measure and quantify N2O emissions from wheat grown in rotation with canola, pulses and legume pastures at two sites in low and medium/high rainfall farming systems of the Eyre Peninsula, while assessing best management practices that local farmers can adopt to reduce the risk of N2O losses and ultimately improve the paddock’s crop producti… read more
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Agricultural soils are the main source of emission of the greenhouse gas (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere. N2O is a potent GHG which lasts in the atmosphere for 114 years and has a global warming potential of approximately 300 times greater than that of carbon dioxide over a 100 year timescale. Agriculture accounts for 16% of Australi… read more
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To, through three years of trials, deliver key elements of a demonstrated and communicated variety specific HRZ Noodle Wheat production package.
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Can systems performance be improved by modifying farming systems in the northern grains region? | In Goondiwindi: (i) What are the trends that are expected in our farming systems? and (ii) How will these changes impact on the performance and status of our farming systems?
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Can systems performance be improved by modifying farming systems in the northern grains region? | What are the trends that are expected and how will these changes impact on the performance and status of our farming systems?
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To explore management impacts on wheat grain quality.
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To use machinery guidance to enable crops to be grown on wide row-spacings, with crops sown into the space between rows in the next yera.
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To test the seed inoculant Jumpstart.
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To question how much nutrition did you export to the silo last year and how much fertiliser are you applying this year?
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To assess the value of higher nutrition input for barley and its relationship with yield and biomass accumulation. This will help to assess whether growers are currently under fertilising barley crops in the region and N requirements required to reach target yields of 10–12t/ha within each region.
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To assess the value of higher nutrition input for barley.
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- Assess whether growers are currently under fertilizing barley crops in the region and N requirements required to reach target yields of 10 – 12 within each region.
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To assess the value of higher nutrition input for barley.
Individual objectives specific to the trial are:
- Assess whether growers are currently under fertilizing barley crops in the region and N requirements required to reach target yields of 10 – 12 within each region.
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To assess the value of higher nutrition input for barley
Individual objectives specific to the trial are:
- Assess whether growers are currently under fertilizing barley crops in the region and N requirements required to reach target yields of 10 – 12 within each region.
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To assess the value of higher nutrition input for barley
Individual objectives specific to the trial are:
- Assess whether growers are currently under fertilizing barley crops in the region and N requirements required to reach target yields of 10 – 12 within each region.
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To assess the value of higher nutrition input for barley
Individual objectives specific to the trial are:
- Assess whether growers are currently under fertilizing barley crops in the region and N requirements required to reach target yields of 10 – 12 within each region.
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To investigate the yield potential of several pulse crops.
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To investigate herbicide options for the control of ryegrass in three oaten hay varieties.
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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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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
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To investigate the optimum fertiliser placement when sowing wheat.
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To investigate how different summer crops influence soil moisture throughout their growing seasons and in the subsequent wheat crop
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The objectives of these trials are very similar to those pursued last season, those being to establish guidelines on the use of foliar applied fungicides in barley crops.
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To assess a range of commercial rhizobia inoculant products, application strategies and sowing times to provide growers with recommendations that ensures adequate nodulation and nitrogen fixation in dry sown crops.
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Understand the critical nutrients required to achieve high yielding (>3t/ha) canola crops, especially when wanting to chase yields with high N in-season.
Background
Project staff ran a series of workshops in high rainfall areas in WA in 2019 to understand key constraints and knowledge gaps when cropping within the HRZ (450-80… read more
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To discuss optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates.
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To identify the critical P fertiliser rates for a broad range of crops on different soil types in the southern Mallee and northern Wimmera. This trial was also undertaken in 1999.
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This project aims to determine if nitrogen supply is limiting uptake of sulphur in canola crops grown in the Riverine Plains region and whether sulphur uptake and yield is increased in canola when nitrogen is available in non-limiting quantities.
The 2017 project trial assessed the response to nitrogen and sulphur in canola crops of the R… read more
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This project aims to determine if nitrogen supply is limiting uptake of sulphur in canola crops grown in the Riverine Plains region and whether sulphur uptake and yield is increased in canola when nitrogen is available in non-limiting quantities.
The 2017 project trial assessed the response to nitrogen and sulphur in canola crops of the R… read more
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This project aims to enable growers to make timely and efficient nitrogen decisions in the Esperance port zone by having a rule of thumb around the cost/benefit of feeding N to crops on waterlogged soils.
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To enable growers to make timely and efficient nitrogen decisions in the Albany and Esperance port zones by having a rule of thumb around the cost/benefit of nitrogen fertiliser for crops on waterlogged soils.
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To enable growers to make timely and efficient nitrogen decisions in the Albany and Esperance port zones by having a rule of thumb around the cost/benefit of feeding N to crops on waterlogged soils.
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To investigate responses to phosphorus and potassium in wheat.
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To demonstrate that is possible to grow a viable winter crop and still maintain a productive lucerne stand over summer.
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To investigate herbicide options on newly sown pasture crops at three sites.
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To demonstate use patterns of the new pre emergent herbicide Reflex in a range pulse crops grown on a deep sandy soil.
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To evaluate B. juncea against new varieties of canola for yield and oil content.
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To evaluate the performance of different in-crop nitrogen treatments and plant populations at a range or row spacings in second wheat (wheat on wheat) following canola.
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To assess the soil and fertiliser (external) P requirements of different crop types in low phosphorus environments.
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To investigate responses to phosphorus and nitrogen in wheat.
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To explore the use of alternative fertiliser sources and nutritional programs.
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To answer the question: “How much of last year’s super will be available to my crop this year?”
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To investigate the impact of conventional phosphorus fertilisers and alternative sources of phosphorus on the grain yield and quality of wheat.
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To investigate the impact of conventional phosphorus fertilisers and alternative sources of phosphorus on the grain yield and quality of wheat.
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To investigate the impact of conventional phosphorus fertilisers and alternative sources of phosphorus on the grain yield and quality of barley.
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To compare commercially available fertiliser on the performance of Schooner barley.
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To provide advice on strategies for winter crops for 1997.
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To discuss planning for a successful cropping year.
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To determine whether Moddus Evo, applied with and without fungicide at different timings, influenced the level of lodging and head loss in Scope CL barley, and to compare its performance against other PGRs when applied at GS31.
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To measure the effect of plant growth regulants and their interaction with nitrogen on wheat grain yield and quality, in the absence of lodging.
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To demonstrate if summer crops and wheat can be grown successfully when sown in winter and covered in biodegradable polymer films.
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To conduct three polymer trials.
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To investigate potassium and lime responses and effects on lime and potassium requirements.
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To discuss practical disease management issues in puluse crops.
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To evaluate the impact of Pratylenchus thornei (root-lesion nematode) on yield and grain quality of key winter crops together with the impact of crop or variety choice on nematode populations. Faba Beans
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To evaluate the impact of Pratylenchus thornei (root-lesion nematode) on yield and grain quality of key winter crops together with the impact of crop or variety choice on nematode populations. Canola.
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To evaluate the impact of Pratylenchus thornei (root-lesion nematode) on yield and grain quality of key winter crops together with the impact of crop or variety choice on nematode populations. Early Wheat.
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To evaluate the impact of Pratylenchus thornei (root-lesion nematode) on yield and grain quality of key winter crops together with the impact of crop or variety choice on nematode populations. Main season cereals.
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To evaluate the impact of Pratylenchus thornei (root-lesion nematode) on yield and grain quality of key winter crops together with the impact of crop or variety choice on nematode populations. Field Peas.
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To evaluate the impact of Pratylenchus thornei (root-lesion nematode) on yield and grain quality of key winter crops together with the impact of crop or variety choice on nematode populations. Chickpeas.
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To evaluate the impact of Pratylenchus thornei (root-lesion nematode) on yield and grain quality of key winter crops together with the impact of crop or variety choice on nematode populations. Linseed.