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To discuss the BCG Farming Systems 2000 season.
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To compare the profitability of four different farming systems.
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To report on the BCG Farming Systems project in 2001.
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To investigate pasture production and utilisation by sheep.
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To present results from BCG's Farming Systems trials.
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To update information on livestock ad the Farming Systems site.
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To report on the Farming Systems trial 2003.
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To report on the Farming Systems trial.
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To report on the Farming Systems trial 2006.
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To compare the yields of crops in southern Mallee farming systems in 2009.
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To compare the yields of crops in the southern Mallee under various farming systmes in 2010.
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To compare the yields of crops grown under four different farming systems common to the southern Mallee region.
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To see how different the machinery requirements are in different farming systems.
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To assess the Farming Systems trial for changes in the soil properties/health that may have occurred between each of the four systems since 2000.
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To uncover what makes for profitable and sustainable crop production.
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To link financial management to the environmental and production aspects of a variety of farming systems in south eastern Australia.
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To test the persistence and performance of summer-active perennial grasses in a Mallee environment and the potential for pasture cropping.
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To discuss the feeding of sheep.
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To investigate whether higher fertiliser rates profitably produced greater amounts of better quality pasture than when district average fertiliser rates are used.
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To identify weed species that pose the greatest threats to agricultural produciton if incursion an dispersal is allowed to occur from roadsides and fence-lines into farmed land.
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To investigate the role of fenugreek in south eastern Australian farming systems.
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To investigate the effect of post-sowing pre-emergent herbicides and post emergent herbicides on fenugreek growth and yield and weed control.
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To assess weed control and fenugreek tolerance of several herbicide mixes and to screen new fenugreek varieties for tolerance to commonly used herbicides.
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To investigate the yield and bacterial blight incidence of potential fenugreek varieties for grain production in the Wimmera.
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To conduct a Fenugreek variety trial.
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To determine optimum seed and fertiliser placement in canola and wheat and the effect of Agrotain in reducing seedling burn from urea.
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To deal with fertiliser types and rates, and also how they can be applied and when, and what other factors need to be considered.
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To provide answers to a number of commonly asked fertiliser questions in the southern Mallee/Northern Wimmera and to generate guidelines to assist growers develop profitable nutrient strategies for the coming season.
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To test for field evidence for efficiency of fluid fertilisers.
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To determine the optimum sowing date(s) and sowing rate(s) for new field pea cultivars.
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To develop inproved cultivars of field peas for all regions in southern Australia.
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To conduct a field pea variety trial.
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To compare the performance of four field pea varieties in the Mallee.
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To improve the yield potential, adaptation and grain quality of field pea in southern Australia by breeding superior varieties for growers.
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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 field pea variety evaluation.
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To identify the best varieties available and potential commercial releases from the breeding program for growers in Victoria.
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To discuss field pea varieties and issues.
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To intriduce Fiesta VF (formerly Acc 483) - a new variety of faba bean for release in 1998.
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To raise awareness about the increasing occurrence of herbicide resistant wild radish populations in the Wimmera and Mallee and to determine the best management practices for farmers to combat it and reduce its spread.
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To assess and evaluated a range of different pasture varieties at three different sites.
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To assess and evaluated a range of different pasture varieties at three different sites.
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To discuss the criteria for financial viability after drought.
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To demonstrate a range of crop types and end-uses that could have a role in the low rainfall farming systems of the Mallee.
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To demonstrate a range of crop types and end-uses that could have a role in the low rainfall farming systems of the Mallee.
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To help conventional (till) and no-till farmers appreciate the differences in management issues between the two establishment techniques and associated farming systems.
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To increase our understanding of how relative grain yields in different parts of a paddock in the Mallee region vary year to year (and between crop types) and how these changes are related to soil type and seasonal rainfall.
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To investigate the comparative efficacy of fluid forms of Phosphorus (P) fertiliser compared to the current granular forms for application to grain crops grown on alkaline soils of Victoria.
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To discuss fluid phosphorus fertilisers: how did they fare in Victoria in 2005?
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To investigate the effectiveness of applying a range of fungicides, both with and without stickers, at two different application times on two varieties of beans - Fiesta VF and Aquadulce.
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To investigate fungicide types and application timings to minimise the effect of foliar disease in lentils.
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To evaluate a range of forage shrubs in the Victorian Mallee environment in terms of plant survival, canopy development, health, edible biomass, seedling recruitment and performance under grazing.
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This project is investigating strategies for maintaining frog populations on farms using wildlife ponds.
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To show a range of strategies that minimise frost risk.
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To identify the most effective herbicide brews to control fumitory.
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To study fungicide control of Ascochyta rabiei in chickpeas.
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To determine the benefit of fungicide applications for stripe rust control in 2003.
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To investigate effective fungicide strategies for controlling Ascochyta blight in chickpeas.
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To assess the impact of the new strobilurin fungicides on disease management in barley and determine whether the likelihood of fungicide response can be linked to specific timings, disease and plant available water.
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To examine the value of foliar fungicides for winter barley in the Mallee and Wimmera environments.
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To assess the impact of the new strobilurin fungicides on disease management in wheat and determine whether the likelihood of fungicide response can be linked to specific timings, disease and plant available water.
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To examine the value of foliar fungicides in the Mallee and Wimmera.
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To compare the efficacy of early season treatments with foliar fungicide management incrop for a ‘one touch management’ approach.
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To discuss future strategies for small farmers when there is insufficient income to suppor the family from on-farm income.
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To proivde information about getting into sheep.
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To detail how to get started with no-till in 2007.
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To measure effect of gibberellic acid application and grazing timings on the biomass production and feed quality of oats.
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To present some good barley news from a season best forgotten.
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To discuss good drought recovery.
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To assess the effect of PGRs and fungicides on variety-specific barley yields.
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To comare the dry matter production available for forage and plant recovery after grazing of the forage barley variety Moby with that of Hindmarsh barley and Correll wheat.
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To discuss grain legume harvesting and way to reduce losses from grain harvesting.
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To demonstrate the yield and dry matter responses of field peas, lentils and chickpeas to the application of phosphorus and zine in the southern Mallee.
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To demonstrate the grain yield and dry matter responses of field peas, lentils and chickpeas to the application of phosphorus and zinc in the southern Mallee.
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To evaluate commercial and new pulse (grain legume) cultivars on sandy, calcareous soils, in terms of both the crop performance and its benefit in a rotation.
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To determine the effectiveness of a number of grass selective herbicdes to control grasses in medic pastures
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To investigate the effect of grass herbicides on nodulation in legumes.
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To determine the most effective techniques for controlling grass weeds in wheat (variety Meering).
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To determine how post-grazing nitrogen application rates and post flowering rainfall affect the recovery of Mace and Trojan grain wheat crops after grazing.
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To evaluate a vigorous hybrid canola variety in a low rainfall Mallee environment for its grazing value at different growth stages, and its ability to recover from grazing.
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To assess the suitability of different wheat and barley cultivars for both grain and grazing production in low rainfall environments.
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To assess the yield and grain quality effect of grazing on currently grown commercial cereal varieties via paddock scale demonstrations in the Rainbow district.
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To evaluate the suitability of different wheat and barley cultivars for both grazing and grain production, when sown as part of a the normal cropping program in low rainfall zones of western Victoria.
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To monitor the feed value and grain production from different types of grazed cereal crops in Northern Victoria.
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To monitor the feed value and grain production from different types of grazed cereal crops in Northern Victoria.
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To monitor the feed value and grain production from different types of grazed cereal crops in Northern Victoria.
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To investigate some other types of legumes for their dry matter and suitability as green manure.
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To provide a gross margin calculation method for 1994.
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To compare the efficacy of different group B herbicides.
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To compare Triflur 480 versus Stomp, in relation to traditional use and minimum cultivation, on wheat and canola.
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The aim of this trial was to investigate managmeent practices for groin canola after cereal.
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To identify the agronomic practices which lead to the production of high quality hard and durum wheat.