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The aim of this project was to test if including one or two-year break phases in low rainfall crop sequences could successfully address agronomic constraints to increase the productivity of subsequent cereal crops and improve the profitability of the long term crop sequence when compared to maintaining continuous cereal
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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 assess the potential to use Ultra High Pressure (UHP) liquid injection technology to apply an ultra low soil disturbance UAN sideband into cropping soils and test whether UHP injection of UAN is a viable alternative N application method for the future.
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To understand the stages of resistance development within wild radish populations and to develop strategies from a grower’s perspective for growing weed free crops in the presence of resistant radish.
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To provide information relating to managing sclerotinia stem rot in canola.
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To increase grower and adviser understanding of: (i) tools available for better crop management decisions; (ii) soil water relationships and plant available water capacity (PAWC); and (iii) influence of seasonal conditions and PAWC on crop yield potential.
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To present research information available on role of foliar fungicide mixtures with new chemistry against barley LR in a variety with known APR.
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To understand the impact of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling on disease suppression.
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To conduct a vetch variety trial to look for a dual purpose vetch variety.
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To evaluate the agronomic and economic benefits of using different rotations and management strategies to deal with Group A resistant ryegrass in a farming system.
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To report on the use of crop sensors as an aid for nitrogen decisions.
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To investigate the feasibility of utilising image data, collected using UAVs, to make timely management decisions relating to slug damage in emerging canola.
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To provide the farmers with calcareous soils that were P retentive, with an alternative to P fertilisers which were continually becoming locked-up, as well as an economical and effective method for the application of these fertilisers
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To use a combination of alternative weed control methods to minimise the reliance on chemicals.
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To investigating if applying fertiliser according to productivity zones is more profitable than blanket applications of fertiliser across the whole paddock. We aimed to design trials to demonstrate to growers that matching fertiliser inputs to productivity zones will increase whole paddock profitability compared to blanket applications of fertil… read more
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To investigate the effect of light penetration and canopy structure on pod-set and grain yield.
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The aim of this work was to use a range of tools to determine if we can be confident that the SclerotiniaCM app is producing reliable outputs that will help canola growers make informed management decisions in a given season
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To assess the economic benefit of variable rate nitrogen application, when combined with crop sensor information and yield potential zones to build the variable rate application map.
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Demonstrate variable rate technology on farm and how it can be applied to manage fertiliser use and to minimise nutrient enrichment or depletion that leads to poor soil health.
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To evaluate the relative resistance of each variety to Pt under field conditions.
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To evaluate the relative resistance of each variety to Pratylenchus thornei under field conditions.
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To compare new and old varieties of crops in a demonstration trial.
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To improve canola production through identification of varieties and agronomic practices with superior performance under irrigation.
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To improve irrigated cereal production through identification of varieties and agronomic practices with superior perfomance under irrigation.
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Vetch and faba bean biomass
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To investigate the potential of new vetch species/varieties for very low rainfall areas in Southern Australia.
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To explore potential of new vetch lines for varieties in Australian crop rotations.
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To integrate productive perennial pastures into annual cropping systems so as to improve the profitability and sustainability of dryland farming.
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To investigate options for broadleaf weed and grass control in oats.
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To satisfy the questions of local farmers.
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To comment on the Farm Management 500 and Sustainable Technology (FAST) Project: what did the crops grow on in 1994?
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To address the question, what would happen if a commercial cereal crop was sown at such an early date?
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To identify key ingredients of agronomic packages that deliver high yielding canola crops with high oil contents in the Parndana environment.
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To provide growers with the tools needed to adopt site-specific weed management (SSWM) strategies as a result of a commercially viable weed ID and mapping system being demonstrated.
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To examine the integration of the principles of disease management and canopy management in cereal crops.
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To assess the effect of varying the seed and fertiliser rates on the yield of wheat grown after wheat.
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To assess if the previous year's results from this experiment could be replicated in a year with average to above average growing season rainfall (GSR).
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To demonstrate the benefits of applying phosphorus and nitrogen to wheat in cereal-leume rotations on sodic soils in the southern Mallee.
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To improve crop production by determining the effect of sowing time and sowing rate on crop yield and grain quality risks of new wheat varieties.
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To improve crop production by determining the effect of sowing time and sowing rate on crop yield and grain quality risks of new wheat varieties.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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The aim of these trials was to compare existing wheat varieties under dryland and irrigated conditions, evaluate new breeding material and continue to assess the disease responses of all germplasm.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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This trial is apart of a three year GRDC project to develop a benchmark to be used to accurately determine crops' N status.
The aim of this years trial is to determine how a crops’ N status changes in relation to early sowing and variety.
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To provide growers with the tools needed to adopt site-specific weed management (SSWM) strategies as a result of a commercially viable weed ID and mapping system being demonstrated.
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To provide growers with the tools needed to adopt site-specific weed management (SSWM) strategies as a result of a commercially viable weed ID and mapping system being demonstrated.
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To shed some light on why cereals yielded so much better compared with pulse crops and canola in the southern Mallee in 2001.
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The aim of this trial was to assess the screening capability of malting barley and silverstar wheat.
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To determine the performance of new and current wheat varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee
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To compare and contrast plant growth regulation strategies in winter and spring barley germplasm.
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Can cover crops increase infiltration and net water accumulation in pivot-irrigated cotton systems with low (<30%) ground cover?
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To determine the optimal sowing rate for winter threat to the crops potential yield, and even wheat in the Hamilton district.
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To compares grain yields and quality of milling oats, durum wheat, bread and feed wheats and feed and malt barley varieties and the subsequent gross margin when all crops are grown side by side on the Wolseley flats.
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To compare grain yields and quality of milling oats, durum wheat, bread wheats and feed and malt barley and the subsequent gross
margin when all crops are grown side by side on the Wolseley flats.
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To provide information about Sclerotinia stem rot (white mould).
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To determine if cereal wheat yields can be increased using X-tend® (polyolefin films) that have been developed for use in agriculture.
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This was the second year of a three-year trial, funded by the South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT), to evaluate the nitrogen fixation capabilities of various legume species commonly grown on Kangaroo Island.
In this second year, the trial was set up to answer the following questions:
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To investigate wider range of fungicides for yellow leaf spot control.
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To investigate wider range of fungicides for yellow leaf spot control.
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To evaluate the performance of annual crops when pasture cropped over different perennial species.
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To examine the impact of crown rot on yield and grain quality in a range of durum, bread wheat and barley varieties across two sowing times near Tulloona in north-western NSW in 2015.
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To test Yield Prophet for 2005.
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To deal with aspects of a large project on diagnosis of the deficiency, yield responses to zinc, residual value of zinc, protein increases and improvement of quality, and genotypic effects in relation to zinc.
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To explore the effectiveness of zinc when applied with fluid nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser.
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To establish the zinc requirements of crops growing on vertisols.
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To review of importance of zinc in the Victorian Mallee and Wimmera.
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To conduct zinc nutrition trials.
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To see if zinc was limiting yield potential.