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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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Investigation into the best economic solutions to pasture establishment, persistence and management to ensure long term productive grazing systems.
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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 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 five control practices to determine the best weed management strategy for summer months on this particular soil type.
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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 determine responses to Super Phos, Potash and Lime in a pasture wheat rotation over 5 years.
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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 identify management decisions that impact on blackspot in field peas and to validate disease risk predictions from Blackspot Manager.
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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 discuss control strategies for Take-all.
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To assist growers with variety, nitrogen management and sowing date decisions to maximise irrigated canola yield potential.
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To evaluate the effects of varietal selection, sowing date, plant population and N management on grain yield, oil content and lodging
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To examine targeting maximum yields of irrigated wheat in southern NSW.
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To assess cultural control practices in combination with pre-emergent herbicides for the management resistant ARG at the Lake Bolac research site.
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Brome grass is the costliest weed to grain production in the Mallee region despite herbicide resistance being relatively low. This paper brings together research trials from 2015 and 2016 addressing the potential for greater efficacy of pre-emergence herbicides on brome and the potential for better crop competition on non-wetting sands. For grow… read more
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To independently compare a range of agricultural foliar products on wheat at Badgingarra in a replicated trial.
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To present the 'greenhouse story'.
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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 identify nutrient and stubble management practices which result in increased soil organic matter.
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This experiment investigated the irrigation water requirements of a wheat crop and the impact of irrigation intensity and water ponding on grain yield, grain quality, water use and water use efficiency.
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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 determine agronomic management practices that increase grain yield potential while also minimising the risk of fungal diseases.
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To determine the optimum sowing date, phenology and nitrogen management to optimise grain yield within the Central West region of NSW. These combinations were tested across two contrasting scenarios: irrigation versus dryland.
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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 demonstrate the pros and cons of different stubble/ soil management and establishment treatments.
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The effect of variety, plant density and nitrogen management on grain yield was evaluated for a second year at the NSW DPI Leeton Field Station (LFS).
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To discuss benefits and practicalities of individual growers weed management tactics; and to assist others to decide if adopting similar methods would be beneficial on their property.
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To understand management factors influencing cadmium concentration of grain in field grown wheat.
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To examine the interaction between various combinations of nitrogen, sowing rate and grazing to maximise drymatter production and see what impact this has on grain yield and quality and stubble mass post harvest.
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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 examine the livestock benefits and impacts on cereal yield and stubble aftermath by grazing.
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This research aimed to identify the impact of irrigation opportunity time and fertiliser N rates on fertiliser N response, lint yield and fertiliser N recovery in a sub-surface drip irrigation system.
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To discuss the key management practices to avoid herbicide resistance.
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To conudct the Machinery Challenge - a cost comparison of machinery usage in four different farming systems.
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To determine the role of stubble management on frost severity and its effects on the grain yield of wheat
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To demonstrate, compare and analyse the efficacy of new herbicide combinations and sequences to achieve control of hard to kill weeds such as ryegrass and radish, whilst maximising yield in hybrid canola, using the hybrid variety Hyola 525RT (Roundup Ready + Triazine Tolerant) canola herbicide tolerant system.
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To investigate proactive non-herbicide management strategies for reducing ryegrass seed set and so 'run down' the seed bank.
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To investigate proactive non-herbicide management strategies for reducing ryegrass seed set and so 'run down' the seed bank.
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To assist growers in making decisions on variety choice and management, a trial was conducted at Buntine to assess the yield, quality and economic response of new and potential wheat varieties to different sowing times.
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To investigate the nitrogen rate and time of application response of canola varieties to yield and oil content of Triazine Tolerant (TT) and Roundup Ready (RR) hybrids in comparison with open-pollinated (OP) types to:
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To investigate the N rate and time of application response of canola varieties to yield and oil content of Triazine tolerant (TT) and Roundup Ready (RR) hybrids in comparison with open-pollinated (OP) types to:
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To investigate the nitrogen rate and time of application response of canola varieties to yield and oil content of TT and RR hybrids in comparison with open-pollinated types to
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To examine how two different plant populations and five different nitrogen timings influence the structure, yield and quality of the barley crop canopy in a 1st cereal situation after the break crop.
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The aim of these nearest neighbour demonstration sites was to investigate the most profitable nitrogen application rates for different regions of the state.
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To investigate the production, management and profitability of three different pulse crops.
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To ascertain the amount and availability of N under varying stubble management practices and soil environments.
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The Transitioning Family Farming Businesses project proposed to facilitate a discussion in the WA grains industry regarding its future industry development requirements around the establishment of farm advisory boards. It did this through the delivery of:
• Needs analysis of the Australian grains industry regarding the development of… read more
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To assess different management strategies for blackleg, while assessing Prosaro as the only foliar in crop option in canola for blackleg management.
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To investigate optimum safe trifluralin rates and water rates in wheat on canola stubble.
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To report on sowing times on heads of spring-sown canola and wheat.
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To report on sowing times on heads of spring-sown canola and wheat.
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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 (i) improve the understanding of how soil moisture probes and Yield Prophet can be used to complement each other; (ii) increase the range of APSoil soil type selections in Yield Prophet by modifying existing soil types based on the probe data; (iii) provide growers with access to real-time soil moisture data and periodic Yield Prophet repor… read more
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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 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 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 determine the response of wheat to different Flexi-N strategies at two seeding rates, i.e. canopy management.
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• To use farmer scale machinery to evaluate the benefits of adopting zone
management farming on a range of soil types over a three year period;
• To increase the output to input ratio for our farming system; and
• To collaborate with, and add value to research in precision agriculture being
undertaken by CSIRO, … read more
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To put into practice one of the key findings from the BCG research work over the last three years - 'high sowing rates in Silverstar wheat will decrease screenings' At the same time it was a good opportunity to test the results of small scale plot work in a real life situation on a large scale.
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To determine if sowing direction and row spacing can be used to influence grass weed populations and growth, and their impact on crop performance in the Mallee.
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To determine if sowing direction and row spacing can be used to influence grass weed populations and growth,
and their impact on crop performance in the Mallee.
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To share Tim Buck's story about using technology to make better farming decisions.
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To determine the effects of variable rate technology (VRT) through variable nutrient management across high, medium and low performing soil types, and also the effects of seeding rate across these soil types
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To use a combination of N-rich strip and satellite imagery in canola to determine a variable rate nitrogen plan.
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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 comment on crop varieties from this year.
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To assess the relative tolerance of new cultivars of field pea, lentil and chickpea to a range of commonly used herbicides.
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To assess the relative tolerance of new field pea and chickpea cultivars of to a range of commonly used herbicides.
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To determine optimum sowing time and plant density for new cultivars of field pea, lentil and chickpea.
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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 evaluate the early biomass production, hay and grain yield of oat varieties, as well as their response to a herbicide strategy, in the southern Mallee and Wimmera.
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To evaluate the early biomass production, hay and grain yield of oat varieties, as well as their response to a herbicide strategy, in the southern Mallee and Wimmera.
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To determine how the management of a vetch crop (termination timing and end-use) influences the yield and quality of a following wheat crop grown for two consecutive years.
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To determine how the management of a vetch crop (termination timing and end-use) influences the yield and quality of a following wheat crop grown for two consecutive years.