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To discuss using computers to give you weather at your fingertips.
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To investigate the effect of weather conditions on cyclohexanedions or ‘dim’ herbicides, Select and Aramo.
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To investigate options for broadleaf weed and grass control in oats.
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To comment on weed management strategies.
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To discuss weed management for 2006.
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To compare and contrast the suitability of some emerging and current commercial barley varieties for the Wimmera region.
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To evaluate the performance of current commercial varieties and assess their suitability for the Wimmera.
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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 determine what happens to pre-drilled N on southern Malle clay-loam soils.
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To determine what happens to pre-drilled N on southern Malle clay-loam soils.
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To answer the question 'What is required to be a good financial manager on a farm?'
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To determine the best form of nitrogen fertiliser for topdressing on alkaline soils.
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To discuss the question 'What is the best product for topdressing nitrogen?'.
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To disucss what'll happen when it does rain again.
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To identify cultivation and fertiliser practices which reduce the incidence and damage caused by Pratylenchus.
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To determine the impact of root lesions nematode on wheat and barley production in the southern Mallee.
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To look at the application of disease and canopy management principles and their application to the different climatic regions of southern Australia.
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To look at the application of disease and canopy management principles and their application to the different climatic regions of southern Australia.
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To investigate wheat canopy management.
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To examine the value of canopy management in the Mallee environment.
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To examine the value of canopy management in the Wimmera.
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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 evaluate the effectiveness of various strategies for managing foliar diseases in separate barley (Experiment 1) and wheat (Experiment 2) experiments using foliar and fertiliser applied fungicides.
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To provide information about wheat varieties suitable for the Mallee and northern Wimmera.
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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 present information about wheat varieties.
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To review wheat varieties and alternatives to ensure the best option is chosen to maximise profit with minimal risk.
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To evaluate new wheat varieties and thier suitability to the Mallee.
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To evaluate new wheat varieties and assess their suitability to the Wimmera.
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To compare the performance on new and current wheat cultivars in the Wimmera and Mallee, managed to maximise yield and to investigate performance at different sowing times.
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To compare the performance of new and existing wheat varieties in four environments, under different sowing times and varying disease pressures.
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To compare the performance of wheat varieties suited to the central Mallee (Berriwillock).
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To compare the performance of new and existing wheat varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee and to investigate the influence of row spacing, variety maturity and plant density on crop performance (Berriwillock site only).
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To discuss wheat variety developments.
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To compare the performance of emerging and current varieties in large plots. In 2002, Wimmera Farming Systems (WFS) joined forces with TOPCROP in the Wimmera to test several wheat varieties on 14 farms.
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To assess the suitability and quality characteristics of some new barley varieties against the widely grown variety Mitre.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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To discuss wheats for the coming growing season (2004).
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To discuss wheat options for 2006.
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To investigate the response to nitrogen fertiliser on wheat.
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To compare three N products for topdressing nitrogen onto wheat.
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To assess the performance of current vetch varieties and ANVBP lines.
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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 measure the effectiveness of herbicides used in Clearfield and non-Clearfield cropping rotations to control problematic weeds in the Mallee including wild radish and brome grass.
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To investigate some existing and new products for the control of wild radish in 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 discuss the process of wind erosion: how it occurs, what the liklihood of wind and rain fall is going to be, what control methods are available, and which is the best control method to use in a particular location.
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To conduct an on-farm wheat demonstration.
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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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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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The project objectives were to: determine what effect stubble load and type had on YLS infection. Determine whether changing cultural practices would aid in reducing YLS incidence. Investigate the effect of fungicide application timing and nutrition on YLS severity.
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To discuss Yield Prophet - how did it perform in 2003?
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To test Yield Prophet for 2005.
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To comment on Yield Prophet® 2007.
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To determine likely nitrogen response at the time of pre-drilling, and at the appearance of the first node (GS31), which coincided with the times at which nitrogen applications took place.
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To comment on Yield Prophet® in 2006 and how it can help save a packet in a drought season.
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To simulate the impacts of likely climate change scenarios on wheat production using the Yield Prophet® Climate Change Report.
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The aim of this trial was to compare the emergence, growth and yielf of small and large seed size Yitpi wheat.
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To compare a number of differenc zinc products applied to an Ouyen wheat crop.
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To conduct zinc nutrition trials.