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To assess three rotations used in the Mid-North, especially those incorporating export hay or ocntinuous cereals.
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To assess three rotations used in the Mid-North, especially those incorporating export hay or ocntinuous cereals.
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To assess the relative effectiveness of a range of products at correcting zinc (Zn) deficiency in wheat.
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To determined the apploication rates of copper and zinc fertiliser for the maximum grain yield of wheat
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To compare and evaluate the yield effect from cultivation, before seeding versus a full cut system in a wheat crop.
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To assess whether applying fluid fungicides in bands at sowing has potential for managing crown rot.
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To quantify the effects of nematode feeding groups in Western Australian soils on crop performance.
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To determine appropriate nitrogen fertiliser rates for maximising crop growth and yield of wheat varieties
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To evaluate the crop safety and efficacy on annual ryegrass of soil-incorporated pre-emergent herbicides in dry and wet sowing conditions.
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This study aimed to compare the efficacy of three different foliar fungicides in managing sclerotinia stem rot in canola.
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To measure N2O losses from a wheat crop grown into vetch that was terminated via different end uses and to
measure the effect on wheat yield and quality.
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To evaluate emerging and newly released medic, vetch and forage peas varieties for their ability to produce dry matter and nutritive value for stock in the Mallee and Wimmera environments.
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To use NGS technology to identify a broader range of pathogens present in the diseased roots.
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To demonstrate the effect of seeder type and operation on the efficacy and safety of pre-emergent herbicides in barley.
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To develop a means of enhancing stubble breakdown using nutrient and microbial supplements prior to planting of the next crop.
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The aim of this investigation was to develop a means of enhancing stubble breakdown using nutrient supplements prior to planting of the next crop.
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To improve soil carbon through the incorporation of cereal stubbles with no impact on the subsequent canola 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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To investigate the follow-on effects of field peas, lupins and vetch on the next years crop of wheat.
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To assess the value and place of grain legumes in a wheat rotation.
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There has been increasing interest from growers and agronomists in low rainfall farming regions to evaluate alternative break crop options to field peas. Field peas are generally well suited to low rainfall farming systems and have historically been the main pulse option for the upper Eyre Peninsula region. However, record high prices and new va… read more
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There has been increasing interest from growers and agronomists in low rainfall farming regions to evaluate alternative break crop options to field peas. Field peas are generally well suited to low rainfall farming systems and have historically been the main pulse option for the upper Eyre Peninsula region. However, relatively high prices, produ… read more
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To evaluate a range of seeding modifications or additions with the aim of improving crop establishment and yield on water repellent sandplain soil.
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To understand the benefits of soil pH mapping and its interaction with other soil and crop mapsTo compare various layers of information (pH, elevation, EM-38, yield andsatellite imagery) for understanding paddock variability.
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To evaluate stripe rust management strategies for wheat in 2004 & 2005.
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To use PA maps to indentify and sample soil zones within a paddock. To investigate soil phosphorus levels in different soil types with a paddock. To see if altering fertiliser rates at sowing has an impact on grain yield.
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To evaluate the performance of crops (barley in 2009) when pasture cropped over different perennial species established on deep pale sands.
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To predict the risk of PRR disease and potential yield losses in chickpea, and detect P. med inoculum in soil from commercial paddocks.
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To assess dual purpose wheat, triticale and oat varieties for dry matter production, recovery from grazing and grain yield.
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To assess dual purpose wheat, barley, triticale and oat varieties for DM production, recovery from grazing and grain yield. A further aim was to compare dry matter and feed quality of cereals with a tetraploid annual ryegrass used for over‐winter grazing prior to seed production.
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The aims of this trial were to:
• Compare early sown dual purpose wheat, barley, triticale and oat varieties for DM production, feed quality, recovery from grazing and grain yield.
• Compare DM and feed quality of cereals with a tetraploid annual ryegrass used for over-winter grazing prior to seed production.
• Assess … read more
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To assess current wheat cultivars and breeding lines for dry matter production, recovery from grazing and grain yield.
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Following on from work by Seedmark PlantTech in 2008, there is investigation in using alternative crops in medium to high rainfall zones. It was determined that more data needed to be collected to establish dry matter and production in these zones.
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To evaluate new cultivars and provide productive alternatives for cropping rotations in HRZ regions which;
• Show how products can combine to improve outcome
• Provide High DM production- for grazing, hay or silage
• Allow alternative weed control methods e.g. competition, different herbicide groups
• Provid… read more
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To evaluate forage varieties in a cropping system.
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To compare the productivity of herbicide tolerant canola varieties grown in the southern Mallee and northern Wimmera environments.
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To compare the effectiveness and cost of several pre and post emergent herbicides on the control of Silvergrass in Gairdner barley in a replicated trial.
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To demonstrate and evaluate a range of management strategies that could effectively reduce damage to emerging canola during establishment caused by slug species in the High Rainfall Zone (HRZ)
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To conduct mungbean variety evaluation experiments to assess how effective new mungbean varieties for the Maquarie Valley were under irrigated conditions.
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Soybean variety evaluation experiments (in collaboration with more variety-specific agronomy experiments) at Trangie Agricultural Research Centre (Trangie ARC) were conducted for three consecutive summer seasons (2013–14, 2014–15 and 2015–16) to assess if new soybean varieties for the Macquarie Valley under irrigated conditions were a su… read more
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To evaluate the performance of several different pre-emergent herbicides and their mixtures on brome infestation in barley.
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To evaluate the pulse crop options suitable for the district not only in terms of their profitability but in terms of their contribution to the performance of subsequent wheat crops.
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To evaluate the potential of novel slower developing barley varieties to increase profitability in the higher rainfall zones of SA.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To compare soil P tests for predicting crop responses on a paddock scale.
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To examine whether deep cultivation by spading can be used to manage water repellence and subsoil acidity on sandplain soil.
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To examine whether deep cultivation by spading can be used to manage water repellence and subsoil acidity on non-wetting sand.
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To determine the impact of Rancona Dimension on yield loss from CR infection across sites in the northern region.
Crown rot, caused predominantly by the fungus Fusarium pseudograminearum is a significant disease of winter cereal crops in the northern NSW and southern Qld. Rancona® Dimension (ipconazole + metalaxyl) was recently reg… read more
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To determine the effectiveness, weed spectrum and crop damage of both Bounty (a broadleaf herbicide for use in lupins) and Aramo (a grass herbicide for use in non-cereal crops), which are due for release on the market in 2003.
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Assess the yield of wide (18 inch) versus narrow (9 inch) lupin rows.
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To study the efficiency that summer fallow rainfall was stored for the following winter crop by measureing it at 9 sites in the Parkes and Forbes district during the 2007/08 summer fallow period.
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The background and objectives for this trial are identical to those set out for the MacKellar trial, though the variety Kellalac gives the opportunity of looking at the influence of plant population, nitrogen timing and nitrogen rate on a spring APW wheat as opposed to a winter feed wheat.
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To quantify the level and effects of sub-clover root disease in pastures across the south-east region of South Australia. It aims to understand the production and economic impact of root disease and, through the evaluation of chemical and cultural control methods, establish cost-effective solutions to manage these diseases.
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To quantify the level and effects of sub-clover root disease in pastures across the south-east region of South Australia.It aims to understand the production and economic impact of root disease and, through the evaluation of chemical and cultural control
methods, establish cost-effective solutions to manage these diseases.
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The project aims to quantify the level and effects of sub-clover root disease in pastures across the south-east region of South Australia.
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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.
• Yield losses due to eyespot in cultivars with different resistance rankings for eyespot.
• The effectiveness of delayed fungic… read more
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This research was initiated to provide preliminary data to improve our understanding of:
• The effectiveness of timing of fungicide application for eyespot management in the South East.
• Interactions between MS and S varieties and fungicide efficacy.
• Impact of fungicides, varieties and combinations on eyespot inocul… read more
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To report on a series of articles are from trials undertaken in 2011 on the three focus sites or funded via the
EPFS 3 project.
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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 expand knowledge on pulses and increase the use of them in the southern region
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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 evaluate a number of commercially available Lupin varieties and two Faba Bean varieties for yield.
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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 test the disease management efficacy of a set of fungicide programs in faba beans in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).
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To assess the efficacy of fungicide programs in faba beans in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).
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To report on faba bean disease management at Tarlee, Mid North, SA.
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To compare fungicides for their effectiveness to control diseases as well as improve yield and seed size in faba bean.
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To assess the effect of plant growth regulators on irrigated faba beans.
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To compare growth, development and yield of current commercial faba bean varieties and advanced breeding lines sown on two dates on a brown clay loam at Lockhart southern NSW.
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To test the adaptability of faba beans to changes in sowing date and plant density in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).
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To compare the growth, development and yield of current commercial faba bean varieties and promising advanced breeding lines at three sowing dates on a hard-setting, acidic, red brown soil at Wagga Wagga.
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To report on faba bean time of sowing x plant density x row spacing at Tarlee, Mid North, SA.
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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.