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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?
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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 investigate the impact of seed dressings on foliar disease in malt barley in the central Mallee.
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The aim was to investigate whether Atrazine has the effect of reducing disease incidence in TT canola.
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To determine the most effective herbicides for controlling Flaxleaf fleabane (Conyza bonariensis).
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To identify the most effective herbicide product and mixes to control hard-to-kill broadleaf weeds in the Wimmera.
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To investigate best bet options for controlling medic prior to sowing lentils.
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To identify some herbicide options for controlling Rosinweed.
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To investigate pre-emergent trifluralin mixes for the control of Group A resistant ryegrass.
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To investigate pre-emergent trifluralin mixes for the control of Group A resistant ryegrass.
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To assess the ryegrass control ability of crop rotation, in combination with pre- and post- emergent herbicides.
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The aim was to investigate as many possible factors which limit wheat yield.
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To control the population of wild radish in wheat, reducing its competitive effect and subsequent plant numbers prior to flowering. Once at floweringthe control of seed set using a phenoxy herbicide will be most successful.
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To investigate the effect of rainfall on farm gross income in the southern Mallee.
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To discuss how to cope with stress in rural communities.
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To demonstrate the effectiveness of Cosmos seed dressing on canola for the control of insect pests such as wireworm and red legged earth mite.
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To comment on Crambe - a new crop with potential in southern Australia.
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To discuss the effects of drought and other pressures upon farming families in the Wimmera Southern Mallee region.
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To provide some suggestions as additional hints in coping with cropping after drought.
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To discuss crop problems.
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To discuss crop selection for the coming year.
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To determine the influence of break sequences (2011-2012) followed by consecutive wheat crops (2013-2014) on soil water, nitrogen, brome grass populations and profitability.
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To determine whether the ASW wheat varieties Barunga, Beulah, Ouyen and Meering differ in thier tolerance to herbicides.
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To provide information on cross reference of previous trial results 2005 – 2010.
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To test a number of cultivation practies and pre-sowing herbicides to control resistant ryegrass in wheat.
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To monitor moisture retention and nitrogen accumulation under cultivated and chemical fallow regimes.
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To determine the impact of delaying harvest on yield and grain quality and to create management packages for varieties, as a guide for farmers.
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To compare the yield and grain quality of barley varieties when harvest is delayed.
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To compare the performance of new and current barley varieties at two different harvest times and to determine if delaying harvest compromises yield and grain quality.
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To investigate the effect of water quality on glyphosate efficacy when used in a spring-spraying knockdown scenario.
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To compare three direct drill seeders for wheat crop establishment; crop yield; and incorporation efficiency of group D herbicides.
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To compare a number of different varieties which could be used for making hay.
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To investigate some practical options for direct drilling wheat into wheat stubbles in the Mallee.
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To determine whether desiccation of lentils helps with harvestability.
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To establish a fungicide strategy to control spot form of net bllotch in Gairdner barley.
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To discuss a project involved in developing lentisl for profitability in Australia.
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To identify narbon bean varieties suited to the Mallee and Wimmera.
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To test a new AgrEvo product on fieldpeas and lentisl for Ascochyta control activity.
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To report on the development of a new grain legume for south eastern Australia: narbon bean (Vicia narbonesis).
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To dicusss developments in herbicide resistance and new products.
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To report on the results of recent herbicide resistance ryegrass surveys.
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To identify the yield penalty associated with direct heading oilseeds as compared with windrowing, and whether Desikote Max and Reglone negate any losses.
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To compare the performance of disc and knife-point seeding at two different sowing times (early and late)
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To compare two new field pea varieties (Parafield and Kaspa) to Dundale.
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To discuss disease issues with pulse-on-pulse cropping.
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To provide a disease management 2005 summary.
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To sample fauna distribution, abundance and habitat use at the different water access points.
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To quanitfy the role of livestock in the financial performance of Wimmera and Malle farming systems.
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To discuss the costs of fertilisers.
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To observe whether additions of a zinc based liquid fertiliser to a herbicide reduces the crop effect often seen when using broadleaf and grass herbicides in cereals.