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To assist farmers to understand what their land is capable of producing under a range of conditions and how to tailor inputs to get the most profitable outcomes.
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To improve the understanding of optimum sowing time by variety to help maximise yields in different environments.
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To expand knowledge on pulses and increase the use of them in the southern region
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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 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 adaptability of a range of field pea varieties to varying sowing dates, crop topping and disease control.
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To investigate the effect of chocolate spot and rust management strategies across a range of faba bean varieties.
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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 compare disease development and crop yield resulting from different fungicide management strategies in faba bean.
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To screen alternative options for problem weed management in chickpeas.
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To determine the optimum disease management strategy for Farrah and Ic*As/7/3.
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To maximise production advantages of new faba bean varieties through the development of appropriate disease management strategies.
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To report on faba bean disease management at Tarlee, Mid North, SA.
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To compare the growth, development and yield of current commercial faba bean varieties and advanced breeding lines at two sowing times at June reefs in Southern NSW.
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To investigate a range of management options across the latest varieties and potential new releases in faba bean at Westmere, and investigate the effect of chocolate spot and rust management strategies across a range of faba bean varieties.
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To determine appropriate sowing dates and densities of new faba bean varieties in the South East of SA, and quantify effect of various crop-top timings on yield of commercial cultivars.
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To determine the optimum time of windrowing for faba beans and compare this practice to direct heading.
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The Making Better Fertiliser Decisions for Cropping Systems in Australia project (BFDC) aims to provide the fertiliser industry, agency staff, agribusiness advisors and growers with the knowledge and resources to improve nutrient recommendations for optimising crop production.
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To report on the final season that was monitored by the FAST project.
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To look at the impact of break crops on Rhizoctonia inoculum in 2013 and of crop management on disease expression in the following cereal crop.
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To look at the impact of 2012 break crops on Rhizoctonia inoculum in 2013 and of crop management on disease expression in the 2013 cereal crop.
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To demonstrate six different seeding machine set-ups sowing in stubble. This demonstration was used to compare different set-ups across two different rates of triflualin at a number of different sowing speeds.
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The DAFF and GRDC funded national trial will examine existing, new and alternative strategies for farmers in the cereal sheep zone to increase soil carbon. The trial will be used as baseline data for carbon accumulation in soils and to: discuss the various forms of soil organic carbon (plant residues, particulate, humus and resistant fractions),… read more
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The DAFF and GRDC funded national trial will examine existing, new and alternative strategies for farmers in the cereal sheep zone to increase soil carbon. The trial will be used as baseline data for carbon accumulation in soils and to: discuss the various forms of soil organic carbon (plant residues, particulate, humus and resistant fractions),… read more
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The DAFF and GRDC funded national trial will examine existing, new and alternative strategies for farmers in the cereal sheep zone to increase soil carbon. The trial will be used as baseline data for carbon accumulation in soils and to: discuss the various forms of soil organic carbon (plant residues, particulate, humus and resistant fractions),… read more
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The DAFF and GRDC funded national trial will examine existing, new and alternative strategies for farmers in the cereal sheep zone to increase soil carbon. The trial will be used as baseline data for carbon accumulation in soils and to: discuss the various forms of soil organic carbon (plant residues, particulate, humus and resistant fractions),… read more
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To compare the profitability of four different farming systems.
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To investigate the management, sustainability and profitability of a range of farming systems.
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To assess the impact of various stubble management practices on the extent, severity and duration of frost and determine its effect on canopy temperature and grain yield.
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Determine thresholds of stubble loads (0, 1, 2 & 4t/ha) which increase severity and duration of frosts, and associated frost risks.
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To test whether knowledge of soil potential, soil variation and in-season predictions of grain yield with Yield Prophet could be useful to improving management.
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To determine the impact on soil carbon fraction levels of applications of balanced nutrients, N, P and S, stubble retention, stubble removal and stubble incorporation.
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To link financial management to the environmental and production aspects of a variety of farming systems in south eastern Australia.
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To examine fertiliser and crop management of areas at risk of flooding.
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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 evaluate yields and quality of new and existing field pea varieties.
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To compare and identify optimum sowing times of 6 pea varieties to maximise grain yield and minimise impacts of disease.
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To facilitate the expansion of field peas into lower rainfall areas of southern Australia through the development of new cultivars and identification of agronomic methods to improve yield and yield reliability, and to provide an economically viable break crop option in areas where pulses are not presently grown.
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To investigate a range of management options across the latest varieties and potential new releases in field pea.
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To improve the success of early sown field pea crops through identifying foliar fungicides with higher levels of efficacy than the current foliar fungicide of Mancozeb on Blackspot disease (using PBA Coogee).
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To investigate the impact of fungicide use to control disease in a range of field pea breeding lines and varieties (focusing on blue peas).
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To raise awareness about the increasing occurrence of herbicide resistant wild radish populations in the Wimmera and Mallee and to determine the best management practices for farmers to combat it and reduce its spread.
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3 different crop species were planted to measure the responses to P; this will assist in crop data gaps being able to be filled allowing for better fertiliser decisions to be made.
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To evaluate the impact of residual herbicide strategies in winter cereals for fleabane management in the spring and summer.
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To evaluate the impact of residual herbicide strategies in winter cereals for fleabane management in the spring and summer.
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To evaluate the impact of residual herbicide strategies in winter cereals for fleabane management in the spring and summer.
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To evaluate the impact of residual herbicide strategies in winter cereals for fleabane management in the spring and summer.
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To compare the effectiveness of Flexi-N through the boom before seeding, banded at seeding and applied at early tillering - where wheat stubble was either burnt or retained.
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To help conventional (till) and no-till farmers appreciate the differences in management issues between the two establishment techniques and associated farming systems.
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To build on previous research by updating knowledge of the benefits, including disease control and nutrition, of fluid delivery systems.
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To investigate the effectiveness of applying a range of fungicides, both with and without stickers, at two different application times on two varieties of beans - Fiesta VF and Aquadulce.
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To develop specific disease management strategies for more susceptible wheat varieties.
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To investigate the efficacy of seed dressing and fertiliser applied fungicides on the time of onset, rate of development and yield impact of wheat powdery mildew.
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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 investigate the composition of the free living nematode communities in Australian grain-growing soils; determine whether the community responds to different organic matter inputs and to various tillage and stubble management regimes; and decide whether nematodes are a useful indicator of soil health.
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To investigate the effect of full stubble retention compared with other stubble management methods and seeding technologies.
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To investigate the effect of fungicides and timing of application on controlling stripe rust infection in wheat.
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To investigate the effect of fungicide and timing of application on controlling stripe rust infection in wheat
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To investigate effective fungicide strategies for controlling Ascochyta blight in chickpeas.
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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 examine the performance of genetics and foliar fungicides for the control of blackleg.
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To evaluate efficacy and benefits of at-planting fungicide options compared to foliar approaches.
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To evaluate efficacy and benefits of at-planting fungicide options compared to foliar approaches.
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To evaluate efficacy and benefits of at-planting fungicide options compared to foliar approaches.
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To assess the impact of the new strobilurin fungicides on disease management in barley and determine whether the likelihood of fungicide response can be linked to specific timings, disease and plant available water.
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To assess the impact of the new strobilurin fungicides on disease management in wheat and determine whether the likelihood of fungicide response can be linked to specific timings, disease and plant available water.
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To compare the efficacy of early season treatments with foliar fungicide management incrop for a ‘one touch management’ approach.
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To provide advice to breeders, researchers, agronomists and growers on the plant characteristics suited to the HRZ.
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To detail how to get started with no-till in 2007.
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The ‘Good Clover Bad Clover’ project is a three-year project that commenced in April 2017 and aims to increase awareness of the potential issues and improve management strategies to deal with oestrogenic clover.
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To focus on maintaining profitable retained stubble systems rather than investigating agronomic and economic benefits of stubble retention.
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To report on the Goonumbla Management trial: NSW DPI Field pea sowing rate trial.
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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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To test a number of grain legume crops grown in a stubble burnt and stubble retained situation and planted with different equipment.
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To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions.
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To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions.
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To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions.
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To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions.
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To evaluate commercial and new pulse (grain legume) cultivars on sandy, calcareous soils, in terms of both the crop performance and its benefit in a rotation.
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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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The GRDC ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble’ projects on upper and lower Eyre Peninsula (EP) aim to improve farm profitability while retaining stubble in farming systems. Grass weed management is one of the key issues of current cropping systems with annual ryegrass and barley grass being of most importance on lowe… read more
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To evaluate a vigorous hybrid canola variety in a low rainfall Mallee environment for its grazing value at different growth stages, and its ability to recover from grazing.
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To search for greater profit and improved management of feed gaps and pastures, which are incentives for grazing cereals.