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To investigate the influence of stubble management and rate on the duration, severity and frost damage in frost prone parts of the landscape in the Mallee and Wimmera regions.
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To demonstrate the impact of different stubble management techniques on soil biota activity and nutrition demands would be monitored using the same fertiliser applications in crop and by comparing yields. In subsequent years the effect of different treatments will be monitored.
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To explore the issues that impact on the profitability of retaining stubbles across a range of environments in southern Australia with the aim of developing regional guidelines and recommendations that assist growers and advisors to consistently retain stubbles profitably.
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All four trials were aiming to evaluate what alternative stubble retention practices can be implemented into the cropping system, without
incurring yield penalty or significant cost to the grower.
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Over recent seasons adoption of stubble retention has plateaued in the Mallee and some growers are reducing the area of stubble retained until the next growing season. An experiment was undertaken to identify potential improvements in stubble management so this trend could be reversed. The experiment examined how different amounts and types of s… read more
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To investigate the impact of stubble on frost severity and duration.
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To quantify the impact of stubble on the severity and duration of frost through canopy temperature and grain yield.
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To determine the effect of stubble management (standing, slashed or burnt) on the crop safety of pre-sowing herbicides, and their efficacy against Group A-resistant annual ryegrass.
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To determine the nutrient loss from stubbles of various crop types following summer rainfall.
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To investigate the effects of sowing barley and peas into a wheat stubble (standing, slashed and burnt).
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To investigate the effects of sowing various crops into different stubble management techniques: burnt, burnt and worked, mulched, slashed and standing.
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Determine if there is an interaction between temperature and various rates of stubble and outline whether increased stubble loads change the severtiy and duration of frost.
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Determine if there is an interaction between temperature and various rates of stubble and outline whether increased stubble loads change the severtiy and duration of frost.
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To determine the effect of stubble type (wheat, peas and canola) and load (from Decile 2, 5 and 8
seasons) on subsequent soil and crop nutrition.
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To measure ryegrass populations under continuous cropping with a range of stubble and tillage practices.
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To assess nutrient status of gilgai soils using lucerne as a bioassay.
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To evaluate if sub-tropical pastures can be successfully established and productively grown in the Wimmera Mallee.
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To examine cereal response to zinc.
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To examine wheat response to zinc.
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To deliver local trials to increase awareness of subsoil acidity and, demonstrate effectiveness of innovate technology to ameliorate and/or prevent subsoil acidity on farm scale.
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To investigate effects of soil amelioration methods on subsoil constraints and the benefots to grain yields in the Mid-North of SA.
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To investigate yield responses to subsoil amelioration treatments.
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To trial the sub soil treatment of ripping and adding a soil ameliorant in a lucerne pasture.
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To report on subsoil manuring: an innovative approach to addressing subsoil problems targeting higher water use efficiency in southern Australia.
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To look at the technology, the resulting productivity increases and the economics of the practice of subsoil manuring.
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To determine if applying fertiliser to the subsoil gives any residual benefits to crops in subsequent years.
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To investigate potential long term negative effects on crop yield of interactions between clay spreading or delving with subsoil nutrition (micronutrients).
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Investigation into the best economic solutions to pasture establishment, persistence and management to ensure long term productive grazing systems.
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To investigate sulfonylurea herbicide and zinc / phosphorus fertiliser interactions in wheat in the Central West NSW cropping belt.
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To study the interaction between herbicides and Zn nutrition of wheat.
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To investigate the role of sulphur and nitrogen in canola nutrition at Sea Lake.
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To measure wheat responses to sulfur and zinc fertiliser when applied in addition to nitrogen and phosphorus.
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To establish product, rates and timings suitable to achieving the most economic return for managing sulphur deficiency.
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To establish sound practices of managing sulphur over a medium term time frame (3 years) in both sand dune and clay loam swale environments
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To investigate nitrogen management strategies for achieving noodle and durum quality wheat in the Wimmera and to better understand wether these specialty wheats should be grown in this district in place of some milling wheat area.
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Assess the response of canola to N and to determine if the timing of N could be delayed in WA until later in the growing season
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To investigate the suitability of some emerging and current barley varieties for the region.
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To investigate the suitability of some emerging and current canola varieties for the region.
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To investigate the suitability of some emerging and current varieties for the region.
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Farming systems projects funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) are assessing ways to improve the use of our total rainfall, with the aim of achieving 80% of the water and nitrogen-limited yield potential in our cropping systems.
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100% of Albany and Esperance port zone growers who frequently experience waterlogging will know if ripping and/or summer/cover crops are viable tools to improve crop establishment, crop rooting depth, and yield in a waterlogging year on their property.
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This GRDC investment aims to look at the impact of summer cropping on waterlogged winter soils and the resultant impact on crop growth and yield in the next winter growing season. Stirlings to Coast Farmers member Steve Lynch has been growing summer crops for the sole purpose of drying his soil profile in the summer to reduce the risk of waterlo… read more
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To evaluate whether farmers can make use of the out-of-season rainfall.
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To provide farmers in the Facey Group grower region with new options for sustainable grazing and summer pasture species. Growers have identified the need for drought tolerant summer grazing options rather than traditional options more suited to higher rainfall zones. This trial aims to compare tedera to the more commonly used annual pasture spec… read more
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These two experiments aimed to evaluate a range of herbicides with different modes of action on prickly lettuce control, and to evaluate if a ‘double-knockdown’ technique is needed to effectively control mature prickly lettuce.
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To measure the interaction between stubble management and soil moisture on:
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To measure the interaction between stubble management, frequency of rainfall events and fertiliser nitrogen on:
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To compare two methods for the establishment of pasture legumes (i) summer sowing where dormant hard-seed is drill sown into the paddock after the crop is harvested; and (ii) traditional sowing where scarified seed is drill sown after the break of the season and knockdown weed control.
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To compare two methods for the establishment of pasture legumes (i) summer sowing where dormant hard-seed is drill sown into the paddock after the crop is harvested; and (ii) traditional sowing where scarified seed is drill sown after the break of the season and knockdown weed control.
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To evaluate effectiveness of ‘summer sowing’ hard-seeded serradella pod into established perennial grass pastures.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of establishing annual legumes into established perennial grass-based pastures by 'summer' sowing of hard-seeded serradella pod.
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To compare two methods for the establishment of pasture legumes (i) summer sowing where dormant hard-seed is drill sown into the paddock after the crop is harvested and (ii) traditional sowing where scarified seed is drill sown after the break of the season and knockdown weed control.
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To evaluate a number of commercially available adjuvants to accompany glyphosate for summer weed control.
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To investigate the effectiveness of a number of herbicide treatments for the control of summer weeds such as heliotrope, padi melons and medic.
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The aim of this trial was to determine the best options for controlling summer weeds using residual and knockdown herbicides with different adjuvants.
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To compare five control practices to determine the best weed management strategy for summer months on this particular soil type.
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To highlight the effectiveness of summer weed control in conserving soil moisture for winter cereal cropping in the Central-Eastern Wheatbelt of WA.
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To assess the effectiveness of a range of summer weed control options. The subsequent effect on yield as a result of weed control.
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To discuss summer weed control options.
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Assess the yield impact of different summer spray application timings at four trials in March 2017, following a widespread summer rainfall event.
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To determine which summer weed control method is most efficient and economical.
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To determine the productivity gains from deep tillage in conjunction with potassium and high phosphorus supply over a number of seasons.
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To evaluate the benefits of drilled potassium when used in conjunction with higher phosphorus applications.
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To evaluate various zinc strategies and compare liquid phosphorus in wheat on high pH soils.
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Optimising sunflower performance relies on being able to match a hybrid with the growing environment and ensuring that the most suitable agronomic management is provided. Suitable crop agronomy involves using the most appropriate row configuration and plant population as well as ensuring adequate nutrition, disease and insect management. This ex… read more
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To quantify the contribution of sunflower leaves to yield and oil quality by applying nine leaf defoliation treatments.
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To assess the impact of sunflower hybrids on Pratylenchus thornei build-up.
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To assess the impact on Pratylenchus thornei multiplication from a range of sunflower varieties.
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To assess the impact of sunflower hybrids on Pratylenchus thornei build-up.
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To assess the impact on Pratylenchus thornei multiplication from a range of sunflower varieties.
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To compare grain yield and oil responses with variations in row configurations, plant population and hybrid selection.
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To identify the limiting factors to canola production in the southern Mallee.
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To identify the limiting factors to field pea production in the southern Mallee.
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To identify the limiting factors to wheat production in the southern Mallee.
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To conduct a super wheat crop demonstration.
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To determine responses to Super Phos, Potash and Lime in a pasture wheat rotation over 5 years.
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To trial supplementing sheep grazing medics with La Trobe pellets to accelerate growth.
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To record experiences of farmers using rotational grazing on stubbles (putting high numbers of stock on paddocks for short periods of time) suggest that more surface cover remains and less tracking is evident compared to paddocks where a lower stocking density for longer periods is used.
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To investigate the effect of two different methods of surface drainage ('raised beds' and 'hump and hollows') of pasture compared to an undrained control treatment on farm productivity and the potential impact on the environment.
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This paper reports on the priority diseases identified in the 2020 crop surveys and highlights implications for grains producers in 2021.
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Barley grass is now one of the top 10 weeds of Australian cropping in terms of area infested, crop yield loss and revenue loss (Llewellyn et al. 2016). Barley grass has several biological traits that make it difficult for growers to manage it in the low rainfall zone, so it is not surprising that it is becoming more prevalent in field crops in S… read more
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To identify management decisions that impact on blackspot in field peas and to validate disease risk predictions from Blackspot Manager.
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There are three non-burning and non-mechanical techniques most commonly employed in harvest weed seed control (HWSC) systems: chaff dumping, chaff lining and chaff tram-lining. The highest adoption of HWSC is in the GRDC western region with an estimated 67% of all farmers undertaking at least one HWSC strategy in 2014.
Chaff dumping is… read more
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The objective of this survey is to understand if HWSC systems influence in mice populations in paddocks.
Properties with mice activity around sheds or houses were targeted.
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To report on a survey of the “Red Leaf Clover Syndrome”.
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To establish the compatibility of a broad range of commonly used agricultural chemicals in association with rhizobial inoculants an dgrain legume seed.
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To compare the effect of delayed harvest on pod splitting, grain weathering and yield for a range of commercial chickpea varieties.
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To compare the incidence of seed markings (tiger stripe/blotch) for a range of commercial chickpea varieties and advanced breeding lines sown on two sowing dates on the central western and north-western slopes of NSW.
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To examine the long-term environmental, biological and economic effects of alternate production systems.
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To look at best management practices for erosion and salinity control and compare crop and pasture growth, water use and subsequent recharge.
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In 2006 seven Demonstration Sites funded by the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the National Landcare Program continued to be used to demonstrate and measure the potential impact of best management practices for dryland agriculture in the Mallee.
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To measure and report the potential impact of best management practices for dryland agriculture in the Mallee.
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To test the hypothesis that "drainage of waterlogged soils in southwest Victoria through raised beds will increase crop and pasture production with beneficial modifications to soil properties".
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To assess barley grass weed seed capture by swathing and weed seed capture in chaff dumps after harvest, to determine how effective these practices can be in contributing towards an IWM program for barley grass on upper Eyre Peninsula.
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To explore systems to control the air–water interface to reduce evaporation from water storages.
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To demonstrate and evaluate nitrogen-rich strips (N Gauges) and Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) measurement as to provide a simple, accurate and easy-to-understand decision support tool to guide economic application of nitrogen during the growing season.