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To determine the ROI from using a stripper front compared to a draper front.
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To determine the ROI from using a stripper front compared to a draper front.
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To increase grain protein (%) in wheat and barley by means of late applications of nitrogen (N) applied as UAN.
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To study the effect of a 1994 canola stubble on a subsequent wheat cop, and was compared against a 1994 chickpea stubble.
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To comment on nine new varieties of canola that will be marketed for 2009 sowings.
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To demonstrate the ideal depth for optimum canola establishment in local conditions.
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To compare windrowing an direct harvesting of canola.
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To investigate:
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To discuss canola variety selection for 2007.
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To discuss how to minimise risk while maximising yields.
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To determine whether high rates of P and N fertiliser result in a yield and oil benefit.
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To determine the optimum management of canola plant type and phenology when sown earlier than traditional sowing time (25 April). To assess the response of canola varieties to high and low application rates of N on grain yield and grain quality.
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To review canola varieties.
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To demonstrate three different techniques of sowing canola to determine seed placement and the effect on yield.
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To determine the optimum sowing time over a number of seasons for karoo and Narendra canola.
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To determine the optimum time of sowing for canola in the southern Mallee.
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To determine the best suited canola varieties for the Southern Mallee environment.
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To test canola varieties to provide growers with alternative options for controlling weeds.
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To conduct a canola variety trial.
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To comment on canola varieties for 2008.
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To look at 5 new canola varieties that will be released in the year.
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To determine the performance of commercial canola varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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To compare established and new canola varieties for yield and oil.
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To investigate new varieties for 2003.
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To test the six new varieties will be marketed in Victoria in 2005.
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To provide a large-scale comparison of emerging and current varieties.
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To identify the highest yielding canola variety in the southern Mallee.
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To demonstrate the suitability of various canola varieties to the Southern mallee environment.
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To determine the suitability of various canola varieties to the Southern Mallee environment.
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To compare varieties of canola, peola an lentils.
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To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.
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To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.
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To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.
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To characterise wheat and barley cultivar sensitivities to commonly used herbicides and tank mixes over several growing seasons and highlight potential yield losses resulting from in-corp herbicide use.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To investigate the impact of On-Duty residues, both in the presence and absence of an in-season Glean application, on the subsequent wheat or barley crop and in doing so test for varietal tolerance differences.
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To evaluate the feed response of barley and oats to two different N rates applied at sowing and post-sowing, and the economic returns from sheep production.
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To answer the questions 'What can I do about root diseases between now and sowing?'
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To provide advice on cereal stubble for grain legumes.
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To evaluate how new and existing wheat and barley varieties respond to grazing and post-grazing nitrogen (N) application rates.
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To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.
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To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.
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To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.
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To demonstrate growth of a number of different cereal varieties.
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To determine the level of herbicide resistance to selective in-crop herbicides in annual ryegrass across western Victoria using random weed surveys.
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To demonstrate the effect of inoculating chickpeas.
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To determine
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To assess the optimum fungicide management strategy for new varieties of chickpea.
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To determine whether herbicide tolerances differ between the four commonly grown chickpea varieties.
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To determine the differences in herbicide tolerances between the four most commonly grown chickpea varieties - Desi types: Lasseter, Desavic, Tyson; and the Kabuli type: Kaniva.
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To demonstrate the risk of sowing certain crop types in the year following application of common pre-emergent herbicide mixtures to chickpeas.
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To determine whether seed dressings are useful in suppressing disease and increasing yield in desi and kabuli type chickpeas.
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To determine safe and effective techniques for uisng Simazine and Trifluralin in Desavic chickpeas.
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To determine safe and effective techniques for using Simazine and Trifluralin on Mallee clay-loams with Lasseter chickpeas.
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To determine the optimum sowing time for chickpeas in the Mallee environment.
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To (over a number of years and different seasons) determine the optimum sowing time for chickpeas (Desavic).
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To determine the optimum time of sowing for canola in the southern Mallee.
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To discuss chickpea varieties.
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To conduct a chickpea variety trial.
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To test chickpea variety yields as part of the Pulse Breeding Australia and National Variety Testing programs.
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To identify Desi and Kabuli chickpea breeding lines with improved adaptation and yield in the Wimmera and Mallee region.
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To improve and release new ascochyta resistant varieties that will restore the chickpea industry in south east Australia.
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To discuss chickpea variety development.
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To investigate the effects of soil type and climate on the yield of commercial varieties and advanced breeding lines in Victoria and thereby assist in the selection of superior varieties for farmers in this state.
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To conduct a chickpea variety evaluation.
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To investigate the yield potential of new chickpea lines with improved ascochyta blight resistance.
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To provide growers with a list of suggested varieties for 2012 from the large range of varieties now available and to provide information about current varieties that still have limitations which growers need to know and to manage for.
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To compare yield and agronomic attributes of current and future variety releases of chickpeas.
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To evaluate different commercially available forage crop varieties for their feed value and capacity to recover during winter and spring in a low rainfall Mallee-Wimmera environment.
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To raise awareness and highlight the importance of cleaning boomspray equipment properly after using SU herbicides.
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To conduct a pre-release evaluation (crop tolerance testing) of potential new canola quality Brassica juncea varieties (J05Z-08920 and J05Z-08960) for tolerance to the appropriate CLEARFIELD® (imidazolinone) herbicide products.
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To conduct a Clearfield production system demonstration.
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To answer the question 'What if there is no break until June or July?'
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To look at canopy management and its integration with disease management principles in the different climates of southern Australia.
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To compare grass herbicides alone and in comparison with common broadleaf herbicides.
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To compare the crop effect of two formulations of trifluralin – Triflur 480 (480 g/L active ingredient) and Crew (330 g/L active ingredient with slow release formulation). The work also included a demonstration of crop effect of trifluralin under dry- and wet sowing conditions.
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To investigate opportunities to reduce the dependence on grass herbicides for the control of grass weeds in wheat.
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To compare the competitive nature of wheat and barley sown at different row spacing and seeding rates on grass weed competition.
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To compare the competitive nature of wheat and barley sown at different row spacing and seeding rates on grass weed competition.
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To investigate the use of competitive crops to reduce weeds.
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To determine whether wheat varieties differ in thier competitive ability, and to see whether sowing rate and row spacings have an influence on grass weed numbers and yield.
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To identify best management practices for the production of red lentils.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect available soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect available soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To compare the weaknesses and strengths of common non-ownership options and proposes an alternative to the norm.
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To discuss a closely-monitored paddock in the Charlton district that has been in wheat for the last seven years.
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To determine the effects of machinery trafficking on soil properties and crop performance on a deep sand in the LRZ of south-eastern Australia.
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To answer the questions of whether applying a preventative spray regardless of conditions was good practice (i.e. does it help in controlling disease?) and was it cost effective?
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To answer the questions of whether applying a preventative spray regardless of conditions was good practice (i.e. does it help in controlling disease?) and was it cost effective?