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To report on a survey of the “Red Leaf Clover Syndrome”.
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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 compare the effect of delayed harvest on pod splitting, grain weathering and yield for a range of commercial chickpea varieties.
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To compare the incidence of seed markings (tiger stripe/blotch) for a range of commercial chickpea varieties and advanced breeding lines sown on two sowing dates on the central western and north-western slopes of NSW.
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To examine the long-term environmental, biological and economic effects of alternate production systems.
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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 test the hypothesis that "drainage of waterlogged soils in southwest Victoria through raised beds will increase crop and pasture production with beneficial modifications to soil properties".
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To assess barley grass weed seed capture by swathing and weed seed capture in chaff dumps after harvest, to determine how effective these practices can be in contributing towards an IWM program for barley grass on upper Eyre Peninsula.
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To explore systems to control the air–water interface to reduce evaporation from water storages.
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To demonstrate and evaluate nitrogen-rich strips (N Gauges) and Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) measurement as to provide a simple, accurate and easy-to-understand decision support tool to guide economic application of nitrogen during the growing season.
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Demonstrate and evaluate nitrogen rich strips (NGauges) and Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NVDI) measurement as a decision support tools to guide economic application of nitrogen duringthe growing season.
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To discuss TagTeam and JumpStart from Novozymes.
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To examine tailoring barley plant density to specific varieties in order to maximise yield and quality
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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 aim of this work is to increase the sources of multi-disease resistant germplasm available for barley variety improvement in Australia. This is being achieved by screening and identifying possible sources of resistance to barley scald and other diseases from the centres of origin of barley cultivation.
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To assist growers with variety, nitrogen management and sowing date decisions to maximise irrigated canola yield potential.
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To evaluate the effects of varietal selection, sowing date, plant population and N management on grain yield, oil content and lodging
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To examine targeting maximum yields of irrigated wheat in southern NSW.
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To investigate the possible yield and quality differences between various milling quality wheats of differening maturities in the Hamilton District.
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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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To establish a farmer scale demonstration site at Nungarin on a Wodjil soil type investigating cheap, cost-effective methodology to effectively incorporate lime to depth which removes the subsurface constraint and provides more immediate returns to growers on their investment.
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To assess cultural control practices in combination with pre-emergent herbicides for the management resistant ARG at the Lake Bolac research site.
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Brome grass is the costliest weed to grain production in the Mallee region despite herbicide resistance being relatively low. This paper brings together research trials from 2015 and 2016 addressing the potential for greater efficacy of pre-emergence herbicides on brome and the potential for better crop competition on non-wetting sands. For grow… read more
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To investigate the interactions between pre-emergence herbicide options and crop row placement.
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To independently compare a range of agricultural foliar products on wheat at Badgingarra in a replicated trial.
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To test pre-emergence herbicide options for brome grass on Mallee sand.
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To measure the effect of retaining hybrid sowing seed on plant growth, blackleg resistance and grain yield compared to the original hybrid (i.e. as purchased from seed supplier; referred to as ‘commercial’ here after) for a range of herbicide tolerance options in a range of rainfall zones in southern Australia.
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These trials tested the repellence of some products being promoted or anecdotally observed to repel snails in broad acre crops. These products have no supporting data nor are they registered for snail repellence in crops.
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To develop profitable and sustainable farming systems for the high rainfall regions of Southern Australia.
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To report on 'think tank' responses to the following quesitons:
• How do you increase your crop water use efficiency?
• How do you maximise profit?
• How can you find more leisure time?
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To give an indication of performance at different parts of the island.
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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 discuss the agronomy of durum wheats.
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To present the 'greenhouse story'.
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To address the need for a non-cereal crop and pasture options to provide profitable rotational crops, disease breaks and weed control opportunities for cereal production in low rainfall regions of south-eastern Australia.
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GRDC has funded a programme to address this issue and one of the projects within this programme is developing an improved understanding and implementation of management practices for brassica and pulse crops, pastures and other options to reduce the risk of crop failure and improve whole farm profitability in low rainfall south-east Australia.… read more
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To compare the performance of crops on raised beds versus strategic field drainage.
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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 additional lines with maturity between the spring and winter types by evaluating new canola lines not commercially available to growers which were supplied by six seed companies.
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To identify nutrient and stubble management practices which result in increased soil organic matter.
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This study determines the effect of N fertilizer placement, N fertiliser rate and N application timing on the competitive ability of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) in dryland no-tillage cropping system in the Western Australian grainbelt.
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This trial was located in York in the grainbelt of Western Australia and investigated combinations of UAN (Urea Ammonium Nitrate) Placement (streamed or broadcast), UAN rate (low and high input) and UAN timing (early or late in the crop growth) for management of ARG.
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To measure the efficacy of coarser spray droplets on the control of two identified common summer weed species, and the influence of more adverse weather conditions.
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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 establish the most satisfactory method to correct manganese deficiency in barley on calcareous sands
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To determine critical concentration of manganese in wheat shoots for growth.
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To investigate the cost-effectiveness of on-farm lime for ameliorating soil acidity in Kwinana East Port Zone and to validate the iLime application (developed by DPIRD and Desiree Futures with funding from GRDC) by comparing simulations with field trial results.
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To report on the Stanton's “current strategy to set up a rotation of liming approximately one fifth of the total land base or about 300ha per year to assist in budgeting".
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To demonstrate differences between sprayed and unsprayed plots from December 2012 to February 2013 for RCSN Kwinana East Port Zone trial locations.
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The effect of combinations of crop row spacing, seedbed utilisation and preemergence herbicides on ryegrass management in barley
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Investigate the influence of barley row spacing, seedbed utilisation and herbicides on ryegrass management.
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To test the establishment effect of fertiliser sown 'down the tube' with canola.
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To determine the impact of grazing on soil condition and weed populations. This report is on findings after two years of grazing.
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To determine the impact of grazing on soil condition and weed populations. This report is on findings after two years of grazing.
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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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This experiment investigated the irrigation water requirements of a wheat crop and the impact of irrigation intensity and water ponding on grain yield, grain quality, water use and water use efficiency.
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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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This experiment evaluated the effect of variety and nitrogen rate on grain yield and protein concentration for six wheat varieties.
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To test the effect of nitrogen timing application method on white wheat yield protein in high rainfall environments.
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To test the effect of plant growth regulators on irrigated wheat.
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To test the effect of PGRs on barley height, lodging and yield.
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To test the effect of PGRs on canola height, lodging and yield.
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To test the effect of PGRs on faba bean height, lodging and yield.
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To test the effect of PGRs on wheat height, lodging and yield.
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To evaluate the effect of existing and new chemistry on yield in broad beans
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To investigate the nodulation and yield response of Faba beans to higher rates of rhizobia inoculation.
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To examine the effect of seed manganese concentration on barley yield.
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To ascertain the crop safety of pre-emergent (IBS) herbicides when used with differing seeding systems and sowing speeds.
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The study the effects of soil ameliorants on the establishment of canola.
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To determine agronomic management practices that increase grain yield potential while also minimising the risk of fungal diseases.
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To determine if early sowing canola will improve the efficiency of teh use of stored water.
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To assess the effect of sowing date on grain yield and quality for some recently released commercial lines along with some experimental lines that could be commercially available within the next 2 years.
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To determine the optimum sowing date, phenology and nitrogen management to optimise grain yield within the Central West region of NSW. These combinations were tested across two contrasting scenarios: irrigation versus dryland.
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To provide further information regarding sowing rates and optimum plant densities.
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To report on the effect of sowing rate on the performance of wheat in the Forbes and Parkes districts
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To investigate the effect of sowing time and variety on yield and oil concentration of canola (Brassica napus)
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This experiment was designed to determine the response of six canola varieties with diverse phenology and breeding (hybrid or open-pollinated (OP)) to varying stored soil water levels across two sowing dates.
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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 investigate the dynamics of N in stubble-retained systems.
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To demonstrate the pros and cons of different stubble/ soil management and establishment treatments.
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To determine the effect of common district nutrition packages in Merredin on crown rot index (incidence x severity) of wheat and barley varieties.
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The effect of variety, plant density and nitrogen management on grain yield was evaluated for a second year at the NSW DPI Leeton Field Station (LFS).
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The experiment at Leeton evaluated the effect of variety, time of sowing, plant population and their interactions on canola grain yield, grain quality (oil content) and crop growth (lodging and harvest index).
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To evaluate delivery systems for zinc and zinc requirement in high rainfall zones.
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To discuss benefits and practicalities of individual growers weed management tactics; and to assist others to decide if adopting similar methods would be beneficial on their property.
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To determine how lime, nutrients or other amendments are distributed through the soil after applicaiton with different mixing methods.
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This experiment, which was part of a larger project based at Tamworth (BLG106), was conducted to determine the effect on chickpea and lentil crop development and grain yield from varying amounts of cereal surface residue (mimicking stubble load) and the resulting lower temperatures.
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To understand management factors influencing cadmium concentration of grain in field grown wheat.
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To determine the potential carry over effects of Brodal on different canola varieties.
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The aim was to assess the impacts of delayed sowing and radish infestation on lupin yield. By doing this we can better understand the extra weed control required to make delayed sowing profitable
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To assess the effects of trace elements on anuello wheat production.