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To investigate the impacts of degree and timing of grazing on crop yield.
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To demonstrate the impacts of degree and timing of grazing of crops on yield.
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To determine the impact that grazing of crops in winter had on subsequent grain yield and quality, production factors such as weeds, disease and nutrition, and livestock carrying capacity.
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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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To investigate the drivers for yield loss under grazing with a view to make grazing crops less risky.
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To assess the grazing opportunity of Moby Barley.
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This study compared OC and nitrogen (N) stocks at the conclusion of a five-year grazing trial on a fertilised native pasture in south-eastern Australia.
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To measure the impact of grazing within cropping systems on soil properties, water dynamics and crop yield.
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To report on the combined use of sophisticated biophysical models such as Grass Gro with localised rainfall, temperature and carbon dioxide levels predicted from various climate models out to 2030.
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To compare Fortune, Wyalkatchem, Wedgetail wheat and Baudin barley as grazing crops.
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To see how new varieties fared at different sowing dates compared with varieties suited to those dates.
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To make full use of in-crop rainfall, stored soil moisture and nutrients, and prevent weed seed contamination, the control of weeds in a pulse break crop phase is essential. Currently, herbicides are the primary method of weed control in broadacre cropping systems. However, there are limited options for broadleaf weed control in pulse crops, as … read more
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To evaluate a range of Group G herbicide ‘spikes’ to better understand there market fit prior to sowing broadacre crops.
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To investigate available technology tools for farmers to make in-season management decisions for grain farming in the Esperance Port Zone (EPZ). Until recently, Yield Prophet was the most well-known yield estimation tool, however there are now other options becoming available. SEPWA looked at how other in-season management tools measure up in a… read more
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To investigate available technology tools for farmers to make in-season management decisions for grain farming in the Esperance Port Zone (EPZ). Until recently, Yield Prophet was the most well-known yield estimation tool, however there are now other options becoming available. SEPWA looked at how other in-season management tools measure up in … read more
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To investigate available technology tools for farmers to make in-season management decisions for grain farming in the Esperance Port Zone (EPZ). Until recently, Yield Prophet was the most well-known yield estimation tool, however there are now other options becoming available. SEPWA looked at how other in-season management tools measure up in … read more
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To investigate available technology tools for farmers to make in-season management decisions for grain farming in the Esperance Port Zone (EPZ). Until recently, Yield Prophet was the most well-known yield estimation tool, however there are now other options becoming available. SEPWA looked at how other in-season management tools measure up in … read more
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To identify the agronomic practices which lead to the production of high quality hard and durum wheat.
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The aim of this trial is to assess the viability of long season wheat in the HRZ.
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In these trials Corrigin Farm Improvement Group aimed to test the benefits of growing crops on chemical fallowed soil. The trials specifically compared which crop species were most profitable under a chemical fallowing regime. In season 2013 barley was most profitable and in 2014 albus lupins were the most profitable crop grown on chemical fallo… read more
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To report on a grower experience of growing pulse crops in NSW.
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The aim of this trial was to compare the performance of very early sown wheat varieties, their early grazing potential and ability to recover from grazing.
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To discuss harvest options for dry years.
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The aim of this work is to understand if growers can reduce soil weed seedbanks in high-yielding high-rainfall zones by adopting harvest weed seed control (HWSC) practices.
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To discuss header set-up for low yielding crops.
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to improve farm profitability while retaining stubble in farming systems on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). One of the barriers to retaining stubble is the perceived reduction in pre-emergent herbicide effectiveness (efficacy) in stubbles. … read more
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To demonstrate the available herbicide options for a range of annual legume pasture varieties.
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Why do the trial?
Barley grass possesses several biological traits that make it difficult for growers to manage in the low rainfall zone, so it is not surprising that it is becoming more prevalent in field crops in SA. A survey by Llewellyn et al. (2015) showed that barley grass has now made its way into the top 1 0 weeds of Australian … read more
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To identify patterns of herbicide resistance levels on Kangaroo Island in 2009.
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To trial a number of herbicide treatments applied to field peas, chickpeas, lentils and lupins to determine effective weed control and their effects on the crops.
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To compare new hybrid and open pollinated (OP) varieties in the mid to late maturity groups suited to the 2.0 to 4.0 t/ha environments and evaluate them statistically, head to head, across all five herbicide technologies.
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The project aims (i) to collect field data that can be pooled with existing data from the Better Fertiliser Decisions for Crops database (BFDC) to assess the applicability of recommended soil critical values for the HRZ of southern Australia, (ii) quantify the effects
of nutrient deficiencies on grain yield, and (iii) identify the main nu… read more
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The project aims (i) to collect field data that can be pooled with existing data from the Better Fertiliser Decisions for Crops database (BFDC) to assess the applicability of recommended soil critical values for the HRZ of southern Australia, (ii) quantify the effects of nutrient deficiencies on grain yield, and (iii) identify the main nutrients… read more
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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 develop high water-use farming systems that integrate crops with perennial pastures.
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To quantify how nitrogen application and timing (upfront versus stem elongation) influences the need for disease control in a susceptible wheat cultivar.
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To test if no-till crops grown on clay soils in the low rainfall, southern Mallee environment would yield better if more straw could be retained on the soil surface from the previous crop.
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To improve the management of grain crops in the Mallee region of Victoria using precision agricultural technology: and more specifically, to improve the understanding of the causes of spatial variability within a paddock and its interaction with seasonal conditions as this knowledge is regarded as essential to developing appropriate management s… read more
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To assess comparative effect of anthracnose on yield and seed infection in a range of varieties and advanced lupin breeding lines.
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Can systems performance be improved by modifying farming systems in the northern grains region? Specifically, what impact do crop species and crop sequences have on soil- and stubble-borne pathogens?
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Can systems performance be improved by modifying farming systems in thenorthern grains region? What are the impacts of crops and crop sequences on soil water accumulation and use?
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To evaluate the impact of grazing intensity on forage value, crop recovery and grain production of a wheat crop in the Victorian Mallee.
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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 analyse the impact of sowing date and variety on the phenology and grain yield of faba beans and lentils in upper Eyre Peninsula.
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To investigate the impact of summer cropping on subsequent winter crop (wheat yield). To dtermine nitrogen (N) response of wheat following summer crops.
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To determine how mouldboard ploughing (soil inversion), rotary spading and banded wetting agent affect the availability of soil nutrients.
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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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To implement the findings of previous work conducted on the establishment of native perennial grasses in the Upper North.
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To discuss the implications of the 2002 drought for weed management.
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To test the optimum sowing time for long season wheat cultivars uisng three target sowing dates.
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To look at current techniques used by farmers, or recommended by consultants, to improve medic pastures and determine the most effective method to optimise N2-fixation. Biomass, nodulation and N2-fixation differences between management practices, including inoculation treatments on both sown and regenerating medic stands were measured. The trial… read more
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To investigate the impact of grazing, soil nutrition and rhizobial inoculants on dry matter production, nodulation and N2-fixation of a regenerating medic pasture under field conditions.
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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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Aimed at identifying factors limiting the production and nitrogen fixation of pulse crops grown on acidic soils in the high rainfall zone (HRZ) grain production regions of south eastern Australia with a long-term average annual rainfall above 500 mm.
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To test the effects of subsoil remediation on crop water use and yield.
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To test the effects of subsoil remediation on crop water use and yield.
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To determine the value of pasture legumes grown in rotation with crops at Streatham, Gnarwarre and Hamilton
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To identify those alternative pasture legume spcies that, when sown in rotation with crops, have the capaicty to improve crop plant productivity in the high rainfall zone of southern Australia.
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The aim of this trial was to determine potential grain yield loss from a late grazing (cutting) relative to the increased grazing production.
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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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This trial addresses issues which may be a barrier to early sowing in the region. In particular; 1. What varieties preform well from early sowing? How do winter and long season spring varieties compare? 2.Can early sown crops be managed to avoid excessive vegetative growth and low harvest index, particularly in dry finish? 3. How do early sown y… read more
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To provide an indication of when stripe rust is likely to affect a particular district, enabling local growers to take measures to protect any unprotected crops before the disease becomes intense.
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A new project being conducted by the Irrigated Cropping Council, NSW DPI, Deakin University, Murray Local Land Service and Precision Agriculture, with financial support from GRDC, started in July 2014. The long-term objective is to ‘increase grain
production and profitability from surface irrigated soils in the GRDC Southern Region by… read more
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To provide a calendar as a guide to insect pests that could be expected during each of hte major crop and pasture growing phases.
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The expected outcome of the project is that by 2021, growers in the MRZ of the South East and their advisors will have access to new relevant information on diverse crop rotations and integrated farming systems, particularity the incorporation of a pasture phase.
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To examine whether integrating row placement, stubble management, chickpea row spacing and a ground engaging tool would affect Fp incidence and grain yield in wheat in a chickpea–wheat sequence grown under a zero-tillage system.
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To give farmers a bettter understanding of the different pest management tools available and to identify which work bets in certain circumstances.
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To investigate weed suppression through cultural management practices and various crops and cultivars.
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The aim was to investigate ryegrass control using Bayer Sakura 850 WG and other commonly used herbicides in mixtures or as standalone treatments.
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To test the viability of establishing lucerne pastures in areas where they have not been traditionally grown.
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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 demonstrate the rotational benefits of a sequence of broadleaf, legume, and pasture crops for the production of wheat in the Kwinana West and East zones of WA.
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To demonstrate the rotational benefits of a sequence of broadleaf, legume, and pasture crops for the production of wheat in the Kwinana West and East zones of WA.
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To compare high, nedium and low seeding rates, species selection and paddock preparation and tehir effect on longer term productivity of the pasture stand.
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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 test the grazing recovery of three milling oat varieites, Bannister, Durack and Yallara
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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 investigate the question 'Is time of sowing as important in a high decile season'?
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To determine whether highly zinc responsive crops such as faba beans and lentils would respond to additional zinc when grown on a paddock which has had a good zinc history.
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To test eight commonly grown TT canola varieties.