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To conduct a zinc fertiliser program and placement technology demonstration.
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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 assess and evaluated a range of different pasture varieties at three different sites.
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To test the benefits of fluid delivery systems in relation to the effects of trace elements, macro nutrients and fungicides on control of cereal root and leaf diseases and grain yield.
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To test the benefits of fluid delivery systems in relation to the effects of trace elements, macro nutrients and fungicides on control of cereal root and leaf diseases and grain yield.
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Assess potential efficacy and benefits from fungicides applied from seeding through to flowering in management of stubble borne diseases of wheat.
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To provide data to assist in decision making when planning to use a field crop as a potential resource for grazing, hay and/or grain based on seasonal conditions, while in some cases utilising the benefits of a break crop within the cropping rotation.
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To show a range of strategies that minimise frost risk.
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To investigate activity of fungicides against sorghum diseases.
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To investigate activity of fungicides against sorghum diseases.
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To investigate activity of fungicides against sorghum diseases.
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To assess the potential for yield and quality responses from controlling Stripe Rust and Yellow Leaf Spot (YLS) in central-western (CW) NSW.
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To determine the various causes and to address concerns around fusarium head blight (FHB) infections.
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To assess the impact of (and interaction between) grazing and frost damage on the grain yield and quality of a range of winter and spring cereal varieties sown at two times of sowing.
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A long-term study was established at the Minnipa Agricultural Centre from 2008 to 2016 (EPFS Summaries 2008 to 2015) to assess the systems impact of grazing on crop and pasture production, and soil health.
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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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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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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 assess whether the effects of grazing canola with sheep during the growing season: factors being assessed are yield and quality, dry matter production and grazing value.
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To assess the yield and grain quality effect of grazing on currently grown commercial cereal varieties via paddock scale demonstrations in the Rainbow district.
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This Demonstration forms part of the Grain & Graze II project looking at the relative merits of grazing canola and cereal crops. This demonstration looks to assess whether the effects of grazing wheat with sheep during the growing season. Factors being assessed are Yield & quality, dry matter production and grazing value.
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To monitor the feed value and grain production from different types of grazed cereal crops in Northern Victoria.
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To monitor the feed value and grain production from different types of grazed cereal crops in Northern Victoria.
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To monitor the feed value and grain production from different types of grazed cereal crops in Northern Victoria.
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The aim of this trial was to investigate managmeent practices for groin canola after cereal.
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To report on a summary of paddock surveys of harvest weed seed collection samples taken in 2016, 2017 and 2018 as a part of the GRDC Stubble Initiative project ‘Maintaining profitability in retained stubbles on upper Eyre Peninsula’ (EPF00001).
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Tp summarise the first two years of crop performance after trafficking was imposed on a red calcareous sandy loam at Minnipa Agricultural Centre (a detailed summary of 2015 results can be found in the EPFS Summary 2015, p197). Three other trials similar in design and monitoring have also been implemented across the LRZ – on a deep sand at Lo… read more
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To evaluate the crop safety of annual ryegrass herbicides in key cereal varieties including use of disc and tyne planting.
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To demonstrate the available herbicide options for a range of annual legume pasture varieties.
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To investigate the fit of high value pulse crops (faba bean, lentil, and chickpea) in the sowing program and their rotational (agronomic and economic) benefits to the following cereal crop.
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To assess the performance of winter and spring wheat varieties managed under three different levels of management sown in mid-April (17th April).
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To evaluate the performance and agronomic attributes of a range of Hybrid and OP canola varieties across different herbicide tolerant technologies over two time of sowing events.
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To raise industry awareness of imi-tolerant barley as a potential tool for integrated weed management in Victoria and South Australian Mallee.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield in the presence of Pratylenchus thornei.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield in the presence or absence of Pratylenchus thornei.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield in the presence of Pratylenchus thornei.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield in the presence or absence of Pratylenchus thornei.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on winter cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of crown rot inoculum on cereal variety yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the impact of kelly chains on stubble-borne fungi levels in the following cereal crop.
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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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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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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 examine the effect of two sowing dates on final Pt populations in a range of durum, bread wheat and barley varieties near Tulloona in north-western NSW in 2015.
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With larger seeding programs, increased summer weed control to conserve soil moisture and more variable autumn rainfall patterns, many growers Australia wide are continuing to dry-sow. More traditionally, growers may have previously ‘dabbled a little’ in dry-sowing and are observing with interest the successes and failures of dry-sowing syst… read more
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To use a thick layer of cereal straw maintained within the growing season to focus on reducing the amount of moisture lost to soil evaporation.
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To use a thick layer of cereal straw maintained within the growing season to focus on reducing the amount of moisture lost to soil evaporation.
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The aim of this trial is to quantify the value of lime applications using different incorporation methods and compare the economic and agronomic returns of each. This trial also includes an application of a rapidly acidifying Elemental Sulphur to demonstrate how soils and crops will perform 10-years into the future if no action is taken to maint… read more
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To explore whether the nitrogen (N) benefits to subsequent cereals from the break crops, and savings from weed control, could offset the loss of income from break crops in the longer term.
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The objective of this trial is to demonstrate that growing canola (with effective weed control options) followed by a high value legume (with higher economic value) can lead to an effective and profitable double break crop sequence. The contribution of an early sowing date versus a traditional sowing date to increase the profitability of these c… read more
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1. Demonstrate that growing canola (with effective weed control options) followed by a high value legume
(with higher economic value) can lead to an effective and profitable double break crop sequence. The
contribution of an early sowing date versus a traditional sowing date to increase the profitability of
these crops will … read more
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To quantify and potentially exploit the variation in nutritive value of a range of cereal grains that come on to the feed market in South Australia to increase grain trading options for grain growers.
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To evaluate the impact of Indigo seed treatment on cereal and chickpea yield and grain quality.
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This trial is part of larger GRDC funded project, which examines whether lower plant populations and later timed nitrogen approaches are suited to the HRZ in Australia, it also examines whether these techniques which were principally established for wheat can be used in malting barley, where high protein can be undesirable.
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To determine the effectiveness of weed seed set control strategies in driving down the seedbank without reducing yields in cereal-intensive cropping systems.
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To examine the interaction of Nitrogen management with disease management in winter barley Inverleigh
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In Western Australia, break crop options are currently limited and there is a high proportion of wheat and barley grown in rotation. Cereal crops account for 60-70% of paddocks sown in any one year, with the remaining area sown to a range of crop and pasture types including canola, lupin, clover, volunteer pasture, or left as fallow. In addition… read more
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To understand the impact of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling on disease suppression.
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The objective of the project is to support the introduction and scale up of commercial cultivation of Linseed in the Great Southern region of Western Australia and will support a larger initiative developed by Southern Dirt to develop a localised Linseed supply chain to take the crop from paddock to consumer on the back of renewed demand for Lin… read more
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To investigate the management of dual purpose canola and cereal crops under irrigation in the region.
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The project is addressing the improvement of advisor and grower knowledge of high yielding cereal and canola varieties under irrigated
systems and specific agronomic management that will improve profitability of these crops.
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To determine whether maintaining stubble cover in low rainfall environments increases summer moisture conservation, and, to establish the minimum stubble quantity or threshold necessary to ensure maximum moisture conservation over the summer.
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To determine the varietal tolerance of new and current barley varieties to foliar diseases (leaf rust, scald and SFNB).
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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 maximise production advantages of new lentil varieties through the development of appropriate disease management strategies.
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To test the yield response of current and newly released lentil varieties to changes in plant populations and sowing dates in the main lentil growing regions of SA.
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CIPAL aims to improve lentil profitability in Australia by developing red and green varieties that are resistant to major diseases (ascochyta blight and botrytis grey mould) and soil constraints (boron, salt and waterlogging), and have improved havestability. CIPAL also aims to develop varieties that have new sources of resistance to current dis… read more
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To determine if disease suppression against rhizoctonia is achievable in an upper EP environment on a grey highly calcareous soil using different rotations and cropping inputs.
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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 assess the impact of different establishment techniques on lucerne plant densities.
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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 if Bravo, Sumisclex and Blackjak foliar sorays have an effect on Tanjil Lupin yeild in lupins that were under pressure with a number of diseases
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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 investigate alternative break crop sequences and cereal herbicide control options that can increase profitability and reduce brome grass populations in the Mallee.
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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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A series of multi-year field trials were conducted at sites in SA, Victoria and NSW to determine key soil, environment and management factors influencing the pathogen dynamics and disease impact in cereal crops.
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This trial was developed to examine the efficacy of seeding and foliar fungicide combinations for control of rust (stripe and leaf rust) and leaf spotting diseases (septoria nodorum and yellow spot) in wheat.
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To demonstrate the symptoms of crown rot and how different varieties tolerate the disease pressure.
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To compare the tolerance of different cereal crops to crown rot, and therefore determine the most tolerant cereals for paddocks at risk of crown rot.