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To conduct trials investigating stripe and stem rust – wheat variety performance.
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To discuss how to manage pests and diseases to optimise crop production whilst still managing costs.
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To assess the impact of (i) seed dressings, (ii) fungicide applied in furrow, and (iii) foliar applied fungicides on controlling stripe rust in two wheat varieties.
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To discuss stripe rust management and varietal selection: 2004.
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To discuss stripe rust management in 2006.
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To investigate the feasability of using a low cost 'one-shot' option for the management of stripe rust in a Mallee environment.
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To investigate the influence of stubble management and rate on the duration, severity and frost damage in frost prone parts of the landscape in the Mallee and Wimmera regions.
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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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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 evaluate if sub-tropical pastures can be successfully established and productively grown in the Wimmera Mallee.
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To investigate the role of sulphur and nitrogen in canola nutrition at Sea Lake.
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To measure wheat responses to sulfur and zinc fertiliser when applied in addition to nitrogen and phosphorus.
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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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To investigate the suitability of some emerging and current barley varieties for the region.
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To investigate the suitability of some emerging and current canola varieties for the region.
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To investigate the suitability of some emerging and current varieties for the region.
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To evaluate a number of commercially available adjuvants to accompany glyphosate for summer weed control.
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To investigate the effectiveness of a number of herbicide treatments for the control of summer weeds such as heliotrope, padi melons and medic.
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The aim of this trial was to determine the best options for controlling summer weeds using residual and knockdown herbicides with different adjuvants.
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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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To discuss summer weed control options.
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To determine which summer weed control method is most efficient and economical.
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To identify the limiting factors to canola production in the southern Mallee.
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To identify the limiting factors to field pea production in the southern Mallee.
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To identify the limiting factors to wheat production in the southern Mallee.
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To conduct a super wheat crop demonstration.
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To establish the compatibility of a broad range of commonly used agricultural chemicals in association with rhizobial inoculants an dgrain legume seed.
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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 TagTeam and JumpStart from Novozymes.
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To discuss control strategies for Take-all.
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To comment on observations that tank mixes give Ally extra clout.
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The original aim of this experiment was to test whether application of foliar fungicide to crops moderately resistant/moderately susceptible to stripe rust with infection detected at GS39-45 and of average yield potential (1.5-2.5t/ha) results in a profitable yield response. However, the experiment was side-tracked by a somewhat surprising resul… read more
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A study was commissioned in 2008 by the Birchip Cropping Group (BCG) and Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) to assess the impacts of the first GM canola available to farmers in NSW and Victoria.
The purpose of this study was to assess at farm level the impact of GM herbicide tolerant canola on farming operations that ma… read more
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To present the 'greenhouse story'.
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To evaluate the effect and profitability of inoculation and/or nitrogen topdressing on chickpeas and field peas.
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To establish a grower owned fuel distribution group with the difference being the addition of Bio-diesel.
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To identify nutrient and stubble management practices which result in increased soil organic matter.
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To compare the effectiveness of a range of herbicides on wild oats in a standard variety of wheat.
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To validate the effect of grazing intensity and growth stage on forage value and yield response of different wheat varieties, with sowing times suited to cultivar.
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To determine the potential carry over effects of Brodal on different canola varieties.
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To test whether soil fertility and health could be improved under a higher input system compared with a lower input and more traditional system.
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To measure the loss of soil water attributed to summer weeds and to quantify the impact of summer weeds on lost production.
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To discuss the key management practices to avoid herbicide resistance.
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To answer the question 'Has the weather changed?'
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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 examine the scope for using soil tests to more effectively allocate phosphorus fertiliser expenditures between paddocks and through time.
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To examine the role of vesticular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM), often referred to as 'friendly fungi' in the phosphours nutrition of winter crops in Victoria.
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To discuss the probability of grain prices remaining high.
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To compare the responses of six different canola varieties to nitrogen fertiliser.
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To discuss whether the Southern Oscillation Index is useful as a rainfall predictor for the Southern Mallee.
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To investigate whether polymer films can improve yields of short season crops when late sown.
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To provide an overview of the year that was.
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To comment on 1994 - the year that was.
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To discuss the year that was 1995.
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To discuss 1996 - the year that was.
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To discuss 1997 - the year that was.
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To discuss 1998 - the year that was.
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To discuss 1999 - the year that was.
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Please see report
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To provide a summary of 2001 - the year that was.
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To reflect upon 2002 - the year that was.
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It is relatively easy to describe a particular year on one’s own farm. To specify precisely what happened over our whole region is the challenging part. Far more difficult is to accurately describe the feelings of the farmers, not to mention those of their partners: the hopes, expectations, commitment, hard work, disappointments and the conseq… read more
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To comment on the year that was - 2005.
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To comment on 2006 - the year that was.
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To comment on 2007 - the year that was.
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To discuss the year that was - 2008.
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To discuss ‘tillage rotation’ as a way to rehabilitate compacted subsoil and increase yield and profit.
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To evaluate the response of seven barley varieties to different sowing times.
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To compare alternative agronomic practices that may improve establishment of new and current barley varieties in wider row spacings.
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To compare alternative agronomic practices that may improve establishment of new and current barley varieties in wider row spacings.
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To compare new and existing wheat varieties and their suitability in the Mallee and Wimmera, either sown dry or after the break.
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To quantify nitrogen leaf uptake when applying UAN with and without follow-up rain; and to determine the effect of streaming versus standard nozzles on nitrogen leaf uptake.
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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 look at the potential benefits of applying additional nutrients as foliar sprays during the season, and we also investigated an alternative nutrient product called Hibrix.
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To ascertain the amount and availability of N under varying stubble management practices and soil environments.
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To measure the trade-off between medic pasture growth and yield of a following cereal crop, with different termination timing of the medic pasture.
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To provide information about trends and costs in production.
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To investigate the control of brome and barley grass in Meering wheat and Balleon barley.
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To determine the best suited TT canola varieties for the Southern Mallee environment.
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To compare triazine tolerant canola varieties.
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To investigate pre-sowing and post sowing pre-emergent options for the control of Group A resistant ryegrass.
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To determine safe ways of using higher rates of Trifluralin.
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To investigate optimum safe trifluralin rates and water rates in wheat on canola stubble.
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The aim of this trial work was to determine whether there are differences in wheat varieties in tolerance to trifluralin. The work was carried out over three seasons (1998 to 2000).
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To discuss trifluralin tolerance of three cereal varieties.
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To invetigate
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To investigate new and crop 'safe' techniques for using trifluralin.
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To investigate the effects of seeding rate and nitrogen rate on triticale.
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To investigate whether liquid N as UAN is a better and more reliable source of N compared to using granular urea.
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To repeat trials from 2004 to confirm confidence in findings that UAN can be used as an in-crop fertiliser in Victoria.
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To determine the extent of volatilisation loss of two nitrogen fertilisers (granular urea vs. liquid UAN) applied over a number of days at the end of tillering on a Wimmera grey clay soil (Marnoo) and Mallee clay loam (Birchip).
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To determine if crop sensors can be used during stem elongation to determine N content of the plant and the need for applied N.
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To determine whether crop reflectance at particular wavelengths of light can be used during stem elongation to determine the need for applied nitrogen.
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To determine whether crop reflectance at particular wavelengths of light can be used during stem elongation to determine N content of the plant and the need for applied N.