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To address the need for a non-cereal crop and pasture options to provide profitable rotational crops, disease breaks and weed control opportunities for cereal production in low rainfall regions of south-eastern Australia.
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GRDC has funded a programme to address this issue and one of the projects within this programme is developing an improved understanding and implementation of management practices for brassica and pulse crops, pastures and other options to reduce the risk of crop failure and improve whole farm profitability in low rainfall south-east Australia.… read more
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To compare the performance of crops on raised beds versus strategic field drainage.
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To establish a grower owned fuel distribution group with the difference being the addition of Bio-diesel.
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To establish the most satisfactory method to correct manganese deficiency in barley on calcareous sands
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This trial aims to investigate the effect of comibinations of row spacing and seedbed utilisation (SBU) on the effectiveness of pre-emergent herbicides on ryegrass management in barley.
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To investigate the effect of combinations of herbicides, crop row spacing and seed-bed utilisation on ryegrass management in wheat.
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To determine the impact of grazing on soil condition and weed populations. This report is on findings after two years of grazing.
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To determine the impact of grazing on soil condition and weed populations. This report is on findings after two years of grazing.
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To validate the effect of grazing intensity and growth stage on forage value and yield response of different wheat varieties, with sowing times suited to cultivar.
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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 investigate the dynamics of N in stubble-retained systems.
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To determine the potential carry over effects of Brodal on different canola varieties.
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To examine the interaction between herbicides and crop nutirition.
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To assess the impact of two alternative cotton irrigation strategies on soil mineral N: crop production and N2O emissions.
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To determine if differences in early crop growth and development of crops under different stubble management strategies was due to differences in early-season nitrogen (N) supply.
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To determine if differences in early crop growth and development of crops under different stubble management strategies was due to differences in early-season nitrogen (N) supply.
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To assess the influence of sowing date and species phenology on yield dynamics of barley, oats and wheat in frost conditions
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The objective of this study is to determine the optimal combinations of canola cultivar, seeding rate and row spacing on annual ryegrass seed production and canola growth and yield.
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To better match fertilizer inputs to productivity zones to increase whole paddock profitability.
To document and evaluate a practical procedure utilizing tools and services that are readily available for zoning paddocks and matching fertilizer inputs to productivity zones.
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To discuss the key management practices to avoid herbicide resistance.
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To compare the effects of fluid fertilisers and seed nutrient treatments on early plant vigour and grain yield for wheat grown from locally sourced or certified seed.
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The project aimed to identify factors limiting N2 fixation and productivity of pulse crops grown on acidic soils in the high rainfall zone (HRZ) Southern Grain production region.
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A short review of manganese in NSW Agriculture.
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To examine the scope for using soil tests to more effectively allocate phosphorus fertiliser expenditures between paddocks and through time.
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To examine the role of vesticular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM), often referred to as 'friendly fungi' in the phosphours nutrition of winter crops in Victoria.
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This paper assesses the economic benefits of green manuring and the potential costs. It also investigates the circumstances in which green manuring will be profitable and those that result in losses to growers.
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This paper assesses the economic benefits of green manuring and the potential costs. It also investigates the circumstances in which green manuring will be profitable and those that result in losses to growers.
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To investigate whether polymer films can improve yields of short season crops when late sown.
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To discuss the year that was 1995.
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It is relatively easy to describe a particular year on one’s own farm. To specify precisely what happened over our whole region is the challenging part. Far more difficult is to accurately describe the feelings of the farmers, not to mention those of their partners: the hopes, expectations, commitment, hard work, disappointments and the conseq… read more
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To comment on 2007 - the year that was.
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To discuss the year that was - 2008.
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To (i) develop a crop monitoring technique to assess wild radish density and provide growers with an estimated cost of hand weeding for a range of wild radish densities, and (ii) assess the efficacy of hand weeding of wild radish using backpacker labour.
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To compare alternative agronomic practices that may improve establishment of new and current barley varieties in wider row spacings.
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To compare alternative agronomic practices that may improve establishment of new and current barley varieties in wider row spacings.
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To quantify nitrogen leaf uptake when applying UAN with and without follow-up rain; and to determine the effect of streaming versus standard nozzles on nitrogen leaf uptake.
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To screen winter and for summer crops for the tolerance of copper deficiency in glasshouse trials.
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To investigate the production, management and profitability of three different pulse crops.
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To establish the occurrence of boron toxicity in barley crops in South Australia.
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To determine the most effective method of applying trace elements to crops on sandy soil that has been clay spread.
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To look at the potential benefits of applying additional nutrients as foliar sprays during the season, and we also investigated an alternative nutrient product called Hibrix.
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To explore the effectiveness of trace elements when applied with fluid nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser.
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To investigate the control of brome and barley grass in Meering wheat and Balleon barley.
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The purpose of the trial was to compare growth rates and dry matter production of alternative pastures with traditional medic pastures
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To compare a standard practice of an upfront MAP fertiliser only, to this same rate of MAP plus a Twin N foliar application.
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The GRDC Low Rainfall Crop Sequencing project is identifying the effects that different break crops and rotations have on Mallee farming systems. Farmers have increasingly adopted continuous cereal cropping strategies as non-cereal crops are perceived as riskier than cereals due to greater yield and price fluctuations. However, break phases can … read more
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The aim of this project was to test if including one or two-year break phases in low rainfall crop sequences could successfully address agronomic constraints to increase the productivity of subsequent cereal crops and improve the profitability of the long term crop sequence when compared to maintaining continuous cereal
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To investigate whether liquid N as UAN is a better and more reliable source of N compared to using granular urea.
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To assess the potential to use Ultra High Pressure (UHP) liquid injection technology to apply an ultra low soil disturbance UAN sideband into cropping soils and test whether UHP injection of UAN is a viable alternative N application method for the future.
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To understand the stages of resistance development within wild radish populations and to develop strategies from a grower’s perspective for growing weed free crops in the presence of resistant radish.
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To provide information relating to managing sclerotinia stem rot in canola.
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To increase grower and adviser understanding of: (i) tools available for better crop management decisions; (ii) soil water relationships and plant available water capacity (PAWC); and (iii) influence of seasonal conditions and PAWC on crop yield potential.
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To present research information available on role of foliar fungicide mixtures with new chemistry against barley LR in a variety with known APR.
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To understand the impact of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling on disease suppression.
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To conduct a vetch variety trial to look for a dual purpose vetch variety.
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To evaluate the agronomic and economic benefits of using different rotations and management strategies to deal with Group A resistant ryegrass in a farming system.
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To report on the use of crop sensors as an aid for nitrogen decisions.
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To investigate the feasibility of utilising image data, collected using UAVs, to make timely management decisions relating to slug damage in emerging canola.
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To provide the farmers with calcareous soils that were P retentive, with an alternative to P fertilisers which were continually becoming locked-up, as well as an economical and effective method for the application of these fertilisers
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To use a combination of alternative weed control methods to minimise the reliance on chemicals.
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To investigating if applying fertiliser according to productivity zones is more profitable than blanket applications of fertiliser across the whole paddock. We aimed to design trials to demonstrate to growers that matching fertiliser inputs to productivity zones will increase whole paddock profitability compared to blanket applications of fertil… read more
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To investigate the effect of light penetration and canopy structure on pod-set and grain yield.
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The aim of this work was to use a range of tools to determine if we can be confident that the SclerotiniaCM app is producing reliable outputs that will help canola growers make informed management decisions in a given season
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To assess the economic benefit of variable rate nitrogen application, when combined with crop sensor information and yield potential zones to build the variable rate application map.
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Demonstrate variable rate technology on farm and how it can be applied to manage fertiliser use and to minimise nutrient enrichment or depletion that leads to poor soil health.
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To evaluate the relative resistance of each variety to Pt under field conditions.
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To evaluate the relative resistance of each variety to Pratylenchus thornei under field conditions.
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To compare new and old varieties of crops in a demonstration trial.
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To improve canola production through identification of varieties and agronomic practices with superior performance under irrigation.
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To improve irrigated cereal production through identification of varieties and agronomic practices with superior perfomance under irrigation.
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Vetch and faba bean biomass
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To investigate the potential of new vetch species/varieties for very low rainfall areas in Southern Australia.
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To explore potential of new vetch lines for varieties in Australian crop rotations.
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To integrate productive perennial pastures into annual cropping systems so as to improve the profitability and sustainability of dryland farming.
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To investigate options for broadleaf weed and grass control in oats.
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To satisfy the questions of local farmers.
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To comment on the Farm Management 500 and Sustainable Technology (FAST) Project: what did the crops grow on in 1994?
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To address the question, what would happen if a commercial cereal crop was sown at such an early date?
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To identify key ingredients of agronomic packages that deliver high yielding canola crops with high oil contents in the Parndana environment.
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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 examine the integration of the principles of disease management and canopy management in cereal crops.
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To assess the effect of varying the seed and fertiliser rates on the yield of wheat grown after wheat.
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To assess if the previous year's results from this experiment could be replicated in a year with average to above average growing season rainfall (GSR).
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To demonstrate the benefits of applying phosphorus and nitrogen to wheat in cereal-leume rotations on sodic soils in the southern Mallee.
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To improve crop production by determining the effect of sowing time and sowing rate on crop yield and grain quality risks of new wheat varieties.
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To improve crop production by determining the effect of sowing time and sowing rate on crop yield and grain quality risks of new wheat varieties.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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The aim of these trials was to compare existing wheat varieties under dryland and irrigated conditions, evaluate new breeding material and continue to assess the disease responses of all germplasm.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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This trial is apart of a three year GRDC project to develop a benchmark to be used to accurately determine crops' N status.
The aim of this years trial is to determine how a crops’ N status changes in relation to early sowing and variety.
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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 shed some light on why cereals yielded so much better compared with pulse crops and canola in the southern Mallee in 2001.