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To test the effect of four levels of management inputs on grain yield, quality and profitability.
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To determine optimal input packages for noodle wheats in Buntine.
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To determine optimal input packages for noodle wheat varieties grown in the Liebe area.
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To determine optimal input packages for commonly grown wheat varieties in the Buntine area.
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This trial was designed to investigate the crop growth, yield and gross margin response of a number of wheat varieties commonly grown in the district to changes in management input strategy.
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To examine the profitability of increasing inputs for cereal varieties representing APW, noodle and hard wheat grades, as well as new malt and feed barley varieties, on a loam soil, with increasing acidity at depth.
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To examine the difference in profitability between low and high input cropping practices over an extended period of time and to determine the effect these practices are having on soil carbon.
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To examine the difference in profitability between low and high input cropping practices over an extended period of time and to determine the effect these practices are having on soil carbon.
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To investigate chemical control options of ‘slender iceplant’ (Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum) with commonly used crop herbicides. The focus was to find suitable pre- and post-emergent options, in legume crops and pastures.
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To compare the efficacy and crop safety of different herbicide options for control of grasses in barley.
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To find herbicide options that may be safe to use in saltland pasture systems wherein a farmer can maintain the productive capacity of his saltland by controlling his weeds. Trials also aim to explore weed control options during saltbush germination.
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To find herbicide options that may be safe to use in saltland pasture systems wherein a farmer can maintain the productive capacity of his saltland by controlling his weeds. Trials also aim to explore weed control options during saltbush germination.
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To quantify the benefits pre-furrowing after pasture in a low rainfall area. Prefurrowing runs a point through dry soil to help rainfall entry.
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To fine-tune the fertiliser requirement of yielding zones in different paddocks.
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To promote the adoption of Hard wheat varieties that are preferred by Australia’s premium export markets.
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To determine the susceptibility of new chickpea varieties and fungicide treatment against Ascochyta Blight. However, due to herbicide damage the chickpeas weren’t harvested, therefore only Lentils and Fenugreek are discussed in this trial.
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To improve returns to growers through a better understanding of nitrogen and seeding rates responses.
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To investigate how new wheat genotypes respond to sowing times and environments in the Central Agricultural Region.
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To determine whether the seed inoculant, Pr-70, is economical on acid sands at Jibberding. The inoculant will be used in conjunction with increasing rates of phosphorus to determine the most profitable return for farmers in the region.
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To determine the efficacy and rate of gypsum required to improve soil structure on heavy clay soils in a minimum tillage system.
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To determine the efficacy and rate of gypsum required to improve soil structure on heavy clay soils in a minimum tillage system.
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Test benefits of ribbon sowing to improve yield of very wide rows in a dry season when sowing onto deep moisture.
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To explore constraints to wheat yield potential in the northern sandplain region.
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To compare four different GM canola varieties in a farmer sized trial and monitor these plots throughout the growing season with the potential to compare yield at harvest.
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To demonstrate the crop safety and efficacy of Sakura 850WG pre-emergent herbicide on barley grass (Hordeum leporinum) in wheat compared to commercially available herbicides.
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To compare seed treatments to see if there is a yield response difference from the different treatments compared to the control. Also to and look at early root growth of the different treatments.
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To determine the most effective seed treatment in wheat and evaluate any benefits from using imidacloprid on wheat.
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Evaluation of a group of Australian perennial legumes to select species useful for perennial pastures adapted to the northern wheatbelt’s low rainfall and acid soils.
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To evaluate a group of Australian perennial legumes to select species useful for perennial pastures adapted to the northern wheatbelt’s low rainfall and acidic soils.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of skip row spacing of wheat in a medium to low rainfall environment.
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To evaluate the effectiveness of skip row spacing of lupins in a medium to low rainfall environment
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To evaluate the effectiveness of skip row spacing of wheat in a low rainfall environment with subsoil constraints.
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To investigate herbicide control options for Slender Iceplant (Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum). The focus is on finding possible herbicide options that may allow for legume and grass pastures between bluebush or saltbush.
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To investigate herbicide control options for Slender Iceplant (Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum). The focus is on finding possible herbicide options that may allow for legume and grass pastures between bluebush or saltbush.
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To investigate herbicide control options for Slender Iceplant (Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum). The focus is on finding possible herbicide options that may allow for legume and grass pastures between bluebush or saltbush.
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To investigate benefits of soil amendments on acid soil for wheat and triticale.
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To investigate the potential of biological and organic matter inputs to increase soil water storage, target long-term yield increases and soil improvement.
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To investigate the potential of biological and organic matter inputs to increase soil water storage, target long-term yield increases and soil improvement.
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To investigate the potential of biological and organic matter inputs to increase soil water storage, target long-term yield increases and soil improvement
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To investigate the potential of biological and organic matter inputs to increase soil water storage, target long-term yield increases and soil health and structure improvements.
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To investigate the potential of organic matter inputs to increase yield and improve soil health.
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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To establish if the current wheat yield could reach potential yield by extra N fertilisation and to identify potential constraints of 8 Satellite Sites throughout the Liebe area
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Investigate the impact of soil management techniques and the application of different rates of lime over a five year period on soil pH.
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The objective of this trial was to evaluate the knockdown efficiency of Spray.Seed with and without common tank mix ‘spikes’, at various rates, on the control of grass and broadleaf weeds including Roundup Ready canola volunteers.
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To evaluate new and existing yellow lupin varieties.
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To evaluate new and existing triticale varieties.
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To conduct an evaluation of new and existing chickpea varieties in a medium rainfall environment.
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To evaluate new and existing chickpea varieties.
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To evaluate new and existing chickpea varieties.
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To evaluate new and existing field pea varieties.
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To evaluate new and commonly grown lupin varieties in a low rainfall environment
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To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.
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To evaluate new and commonly grown lupin varieties in a low rainfall environment.
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To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.
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To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.
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To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.
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To evaluate new and existing udon noodle wheat varieties.
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To compare yellow lupin and angustifolius lupin varieties.
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To compare the economic and agronomic response between the paddock rotations of wheat on wheat, wheat on late pasture topping and wheat on chemical fallow. This investigation aims to identify winter fallowing as a low-risk rotational strategy for low rainfall cropping systems in the North and Eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.
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To evaluate the efficacy and economic return of crop protection strategies to control Stripe Rust within the grain testing area Agzone 2.
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To compare two methods for the establishment of pasture legumes (i) summer sowing where dormant hard-seed is drill sown into the paddock after the crop is harvested and (ii) traditional sowing where scarified seed is drill sown after the break of the season and knockdown weed control.
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To assess the effectiveness of a range of summer weed control options. The subsequent effect on yield as a result of weed control.
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To determine the productivity gains from deep tillage in conjunction with potassium and high phosphorus supply over a number of seasons.
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To evaluate the benefits of drilled potassium when used in conjunction with higher phosphorus applications.
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To evaluate various zinc strategies and compare liquid phosphorus in wheat on high pH soils.
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The aim was to assess the impacts of delayed sowing and radish infestation on lupin yield. By doing this we can better understand the extra weed control required to make delayed sowing profitable
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To assess the effects of physical, chemical and biological soil manipulation (or inputs) on soil organic carbon in relation to changes in long term crop yields and quality.
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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 measure the role of water stored in the soil at sowing in affecting wheat yield.
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To assess the benefits and possible crop damage effects of deep-ripping post-seeding.
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To provide growers with useful information to understand the impact of sowing time on the yield and quality of new and current wheat varieties.
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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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The focus was on being able to rip and inject lime to depth, to attempt to alleviate the acidity and aluminium toxicity that resulted from the low pH.
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The key aim of this trial was to compare soil pH change to depth; with two different sources of lime (lime sand and farmers chalk lime).
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In the mid 1990’s, DAFWA established a series of lime demonstrations sites across the WA wheatbelt, to highlight the importance of managing soil acidity. This trial is one of the series, which had a very simple design (0, 1 and 2t/ha applied, in 3 replicates). The rationale was to use farmer equipment, to enable larger areas to be treated diff… read more
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The key aim of this trial is to document and understand the change in soil pH down to a depth of 30cm.
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The key aim was to compare the rate of lime movement down the soil profile and the change in pH down to a depth of 30cm.
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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 determine if there are benefits from the application of the biological based product ‘TM21’ developed by Basic Environmental Systems and Technology (B.E.S.T).
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To determine if there are benefits from the application of the biological based product ‘TM21’ developed by Basic Environmental Systems and Technology (B.E.S.T).
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To quantify the benefits of Tramline Farming in a low rainfall area.
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To determine suitable tine spacing and lime products for deep banding of lime to treat subsurface acidity.
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To test a suitable relatively quick and cost-effective method of ameliorating subsurface acidity.
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To evaluate the efficacy of some of the common pre-emergent herbicide mixtures for ryegrass control in wheat.
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To evaluate new and existing triticale varieties.
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To evaluate which varieties of triticale yield well on ‘wodjil’ soils which have low subsoil pH and aluminum toxicity.
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To evaluate new and existing udon noodle wheat varieties.
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To test future and existing Udon wheat varieties.
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To conduct a wheat variety evaluation.