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To evaluate the impact of late nitrogen application timings on wheat protein levels.
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To evaluate the impact of late nitrogen application timings on wheat protein levels.
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To evaluate the impact of late nitrogen application timings on wheat protein levels in wheat.
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To evaluate the impact of late nitrogen application timings on wheat protein levels.
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To evaluate the impact of late nitrogen application timings on wheat protein levels.
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To test how late we can apply nitrogen to wheat to achieve the highest protein and yield in a milling variety.
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To provide quick and easy ways to obtain reliable information in the field for use in the management of legume nitrogen.
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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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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 evaluate the effectiveness of current and new fungicides in reducing ascochyta blight infection and maintaining grain yield and quality in lentils and chickpeas.
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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 determine safe and effective techniques for using Trifluralin, Simazine and Lexone in lentils.
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Identify suitable lentil varieties for Western Australian farming systems.
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To evaluate the response of the new ‘imi’ tolerant variety PBA Hallmark XT and the breeding line with improved tolerance to Group C herbicides, SP1333, to novel herbicide strategies involving Group B and C herbicide products.
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To identify nutrient inputs that will improve growth and yield of lentil on the variable soil types encountered in Mallee paddocks.
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To investigate the adaptability of a range of new lentil varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing dates, identify levels of tolerance to a range of group B herbicides in several breeding lines of lentils which have been selected from the Pulse Breeding Australia breeding program for improvements in tolerance to imidazolinone herbicides.
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To investigate the potential of organic matter inputs to increase yield and improve soil health.
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To determine how best to ameliorate subsoil acidity.
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To investigate the effects of Lime, Gypsum and Dolomite on grain production on acid soils.
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To compare crop performance and gross margin returns for a range of fluid and granular nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser treatments in conjunction with trace elements and in-furrow fungicide.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of different, grower-chosen strategies to apply liquid nitrogen.
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On sandy soils in the Mallee to test the efficiency of granular versus liquid P fertilisers and determine the impact of zinc and copper on crop performance.
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To determine whether the fluid product technical grade mono-ammonium phosphate (TGMAP) is more efficient than the granular formulation MAP. The trial also investigates the addition of micronutrients Zinc and Copper.
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To investigate the effects of grazing livestock in no-till paddocks on soil structure, soil compaction and soil moisture, weed seed burial and carbon/nitrogen cycling in no-till farming systems.
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To investigate the effects of grazing livestock in no-till paddocks on soil structure, soil composition and soil moisture, weed seed burial and carbon/nitrogen cycling in no-till farming systems.
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As growers push for maximum grain yield, lodging is becoming a significant factor in rice production, increasing the time and cost of harvest and often resulting in significant yield loss andreduced grain quality.
Several factors influence lodging susceptibility including seasonal weather, variety, sowing method, nitrogen rate and timin… read more
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To compare the performance of three seeding systems and two nitrogen (N) strategies.
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To compare the performance of three seeding systems and two nitrogen (N) strategies.
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To determine if disease suppression against rhizoctonia is achievable in a grey highly calcareous soil using alternative rotational systems and crop inputs in an upper EP environment and if soil microbial populations can be influenced by rotation and fertiliser inputs.
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To evaluate the productivity and profitability of no-till farming techniques against conventional farming
methods under various cropping rotations.
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To compare the performance of three seeding systems and two nitrogen strategies
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To compare the performance of three seeding systems and two nitrogen nutrition strategies.
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To ascertain the long-term benefits in crop growth and profitability as a result of regular phosphorus (P) applications.
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To assess a long-term phosphorus/nitrogen interaction trial.
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To investigate the long term effects of different approaches to sustainable farming, especially in relation to soil moisture and soil quality.
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To investigate the long term effects of different approaches to sustainable farming, especially in relation to soil moisture and soil quality.
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To investigate the long term effects of different approaches to sustainable farming, especially in relation to soil moisture and soil quality.
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To answer some key questions about lucerne in the crop rotation:
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To evaluate different harvest and post-harvest stubble management techniques and measure their effect on harvest efficiency, grain losses and growth and yield of the subsequent crop.
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To compare grain yield responses with variations in three maize hybrids and six nitrogen rates under raised-bed flood irrigation at Breeza on the Liverpool Plains.
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To compare plant characteristics and grain yield responses of three maize hybrids with varying rates of N applied at sowing or in-crop under dryland conditions at Gurley, south-east of Moree.
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To compare plant characteristics and grain yield responses of three maize hybrids to varying rates of N applied at sowing or in crop under dryland conditions at Gurley, south-east of Moree.
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To discuss making fertiliser decisions: does topdressing nitrogen results in higher screenings?
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To investigate how to make the grade for malting barley.
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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. Therefore, it is important… read more
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To evaluate the response of different barley varieties to various management aspects of no-till farming systems. Variables examined include row spacing, pre-emergent herbicides and nitrogen timing.
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To evaluate the response of different barley varieties to various aspects of crop management. Variables examined included nitrogen timing, weed management, weed competition and row spacing.
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Presence of increased seed dormancy in this grass weed species has enabled it to escape pre-sowing control tactics used by the growers. This explains why barley grass is a problematic weed in cereal crops. However, in some locations like Port Germein and Baroota districts, it has now become largely impossible to control in pulse crops. This isli… read more
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To measure and demonstrate on-farm strategies that can reduce nitrous oxide by trialling four key practices:
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To report on managing 'take-all' and crown rot.
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To investigate management options which reduce the risk of failure when growing wheat on wheat, or barley on wheat stubble.
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This experiment aimed to evaluate agronomic management options that enhance the yield potential on this specific soil type.
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To investigate the effects of different rates of nitrogen +/- plant growth regulator (PGR) treatment on plant height, lodging, head loss and yield.
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To manage the crop canopy and conserve the stored soil moisture so that it might be saved for grain-fill, rather than being used to create early crop growth.
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To manage the crop canopy and conserve the stored soil moisture so that it might be saved for grain-fill, rather than being used to create early crop growth.
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To investigate the value of nitrogen on the profitability of new wheat varieties in early (dry sowing) and late sowings in canola/wheat system at Wongan Hills
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To determine the maximum attainable grain yield for a given location and year, and to quantify the contributions.
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This GRDC funded research program aims 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 based on information from dedicated field screening trials.
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To improve decision making amongst local farmers by improving the knowledge and understanding of the economic relationships which exist in our farming systems, and improving skills of participants to assess particularly the economic consequences of their decision making in critical areas within their farm business.
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To investigate options for managing hostile subsoils.
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To investigate options for managing hostile subsoils.
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To optimise wheat and barley protein by better understanding response to high nitrogen rates in a given season.
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Sandy soil types of the Northern Mallee often underperform despite good weed management and increased inputs of nitrogen and sulphur. There is still a yield gap that can be addressed, with anecdotal evidence of unused water commonly remaining in the soil at depths of approximately 60cm at harvest. In 2014 we set in place a diagnostic procedure t… read more
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Sandy soil types of the Northern Mallee often underperform despite good weed management and increased inputs of nitrogen and sulfur. There is still a yield gap that can be addressed, with anecdotal evidence of unused water commonly remaining in the soil at depths of approximately 60cm at harvest.
After several years of demonstrating the v… read more
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To explore the effects of nitrogen, sulfur and zinc on wheat productivity. The treatments included a range of N, S and Zn based treatments which were designed to address whether;
1) Constraints to productivity on sands could be managed by manipulating the nutrition package,
2) Early application of N is the most profitable option,<… read more
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Sandy soil types of the Northern Mallee often underperform despite good weed management and increased inputs of nitrogen and sulfur. There is still a yield gap that can be addressed, with anecdotal evidence of unused water commonly remaining in the soil at depths of approximately 60cm at harvest.
After several years of demonstrating the v… read more
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Sandy soil types of the Northern Mallee often underperform despite good weed management and increased inputs of nitrogen and sulfur. There is still a yield gap that can be addressed, with anecdotal evidence of unused water commonly remaining in the soil at depths of approximately 60cm at harvest.
After several years of demonstrating the v… read more
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To investigate the impact of different management strategies in RT canola (containing both Roundup Ready tolerance and Triazine Tolerant herbicide technology) and wheat on the long-term control of Select-resistant ryegrass.
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To evaluate banded wetting agent (SACOA ‘Irrigator’) for crop establishment and yield on non-wetting soils in the West Midlands.
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To evaluate banded wetting agent (SACOA ‘Irrigator’) for crop establishment and yield on non-wetting soils in the West Midlands.
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To add normal and higher amounts of nutrients (N, P and S) to different stubble managements (standing, worked and removed) to see if soil humus level would be increased.
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To add normal and higher amounts of nutrients (N, P and S) to different stubble managements (standing, worked and removed) to see if soil humus level would be increased.
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The objective of this research is to determine the value of agronomic management (plant density and nitrogen) on production of quality grain for profitable wheat systems. Increasing plant density is a useful tool to increase the competitiveness of a crop against weeds, however, how will this influence grain yield and quality for the new wheat va… read more
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To determine value of agronomic management (sowing rate and nitrogen) on production of quality grain for profitable wheat systems.
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To provide information regarding managing your crop's nitrogen.
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To test for crop response to the application of manganese fertiliser and for any interaction with nitrogen.
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To evaluate yield and quality response of existing wheat varieties when treated at different nitrogen rates. Aiming to maximise nitrogen use efficiency by matching inputs to variety.
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These trials were conducted to examine the likelihood of economic returns to VRT on sandplain soils.
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The project has two components: an agronomy component that will assess the impact of varying surface irrigation management strategies (scheduling and frequency) on nitrogen use efficiency, water use efficiency and overall system profitability; and a hydrology component that will develop irrigation design criteria that will allow precise applicat… read more
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To evaluate the principles of full canopy management through integration of crop inputs (nitrogen, fungicide and growth regulators) across both wheat and barley to maximize crop strength, resilience and yield capacity in high yielding environments.
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Similar trials were conducted for the GRDC funded Grain & Graze 3 project in 2015 across o… read more
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To evaluate the efficacy and crop safety of alternative metolachlor use patterns.
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To evaluate the efficacy and crop safety of alternative metolachlor use patterns. Specifically Awnless Barnyard Grass.
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To evaluate efficacy and safety of alternative Dual Gold use patterns. Specifically on Awnless Barnyard Grass.
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To evaluate efficacy and safety of alternative Dual Gold use patterns. Specifically on Awnless Barnyard Grass.
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To evaluate efficacy and safety of alternative Dual Gold use patterns. Specifically on Liverseed Grass.
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To evaluate the efficacy and crop safety of alternative metolachlor use patterns. Specifically Awnless Barnyard Grass.
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GRDC are providing funding to attempt to discover alternative herbicides for wild radish control in lupins. So far we have found no new herbicides for this purpose but we have had some success with improving wild radish control with currently registered herbicides. Mandelup lupins appear to be tolerant of metribuzin pre-sowing of lupin. This dat… read more
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To examine barley germplasm management interaction
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To evaluate the use PGR’s in wheat and barley in the HRZ of the South East.
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The aim of the trial was to evaluate wheat production with the use of either granular fertiliser or liquid fertiliser inputs at seeding on three different soil types.
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To determine if there was an economical benefit in top-dressing nitrogen on a steep sandy rise, with a good zinc history at Hopetoun.
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The objectives of this project are to quantify the size and efficiency of response to mid-row banded nitrogen in irrigation systems within the southern Riverina of Australia. This will include the assessment of the effect of mid-row banded N on growth, yield and apparent nitrogen recovery efficiency (ANRE), of wheat as compared to the current be… read more
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To investigate the effect of fallow management treatments on crop establishment and yield, weed and pest management and nitrogen management in retained stubble systems in the high rainfall zone in the South-East of South Australia.
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To conduct an on-farm barley demonstration.