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To investigate:
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To evaluate the responses of seven barley cultivars to three times of sowing (TOS): early, mid and late and assess their suitability to the Wimmera Mallee.
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To evaluate the yield potential of Victorian stage 4 trial barley varieties.
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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 environment.
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To look at canopy management in malting barley.
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To compare a number of different products used to control diseases in barly in the southern Mallee and norther Wimmera.
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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 determine the most effecient herbicide options for controlling barley grass and brome grass in wheat and barley.
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To evaluate the potential of combining summer-growing perennial grasses with a cereal in a pasture cropping system in the Mallee.
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To assess the response of six barley varieties treated with five different N rates at sowing.
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To determine whether late sown cereal crops reqire higher rate of P.
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To generate independent information for growers about newly released barley crop varieties.
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To compare the performance of new and existing barley varieties and the influence of sowing time
on crop performance.
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To compare the performance of seven barley varieties in a Mallee environment (Berriwillock).
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To compare the performance of new and current barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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The aim of this report was to assess differing barley varieties in varied growing environments.
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To conduct an on-farm barley demonstration.
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To compare the performance of new and existing barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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To conduct a barley variety trial.
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To investigate and identify potential new malting varieties for Victorian growers.
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To provide a barley variety update.
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To assess the natural incidence of two BYD strains (PAV and RPV) in an insecticide treated field and to evaluate the effects of diseasse 'hot spots' (infected plots with BYD) and infection rate on neighbouring plants.
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To demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of new pre-emergen chemistry, Bayer 191, in reducing resistant ryegass populations in winter cereals.
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To increase the awareness of grain marketing tools available to grain growers and to demonstrate how they can be utilised.
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To increase the awareness of grain marketing tools available to grain growers and to demonstrate how they can be utilised.
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To test the accuracy of alkaline and acid tests on soil labs.
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The aim of better grazing systems in the low rainfall wheat/sheep zone should be to increase pasture returns without negative effects on the cropping phase.
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This paper addresses three issues:
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To compare different fungicides for control of blackleg.
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To investigate the bio-fumigation effects of canola dn mustard varieties on root disease and a number of crop varieties.
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To determine the ways in which different crop types influence available soil P and the P requirements of subsequently sown cereals
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To identify low-risk, profitable break crops for the mallee regions and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
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To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
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To identify low risk, profitable break crops for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
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To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
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To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
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To discuss breeding approaches to improving seeding establishment of wheat.
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To conduct an on-farm chick-pea demonstration.
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The aim was to compare broadcasting as a sowing method with the conventional method of sowing.
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To determine the most cost effective herbicide in wheat (Meering) to control the most common weeds found in the Southern Mallee/northern Wimmera
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To determine the most cost effective herbicide in wheat (Meering) to control the most common weeds found in the southern Mallee/northern Wimmera.
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To determine the best technique for controlling brome grass in wheat and barley.
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To investigate the germination behaviour and seed dormancy of brome grass populations from the Victorian mallee and provide information on control.
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To compare control options for Brome grass in wheat and investigate two new options – Clearfield wheat technology and Atlantis herbicide.
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To compare control options for Brome grass in wheat and barley.
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To investigate herbicide control options for brome grass control in direct drilled wheat in the Mallee.
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To help put the grower in the best possible position to make decisions on the need for, and timing of budworm control.
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To determine the ROI from using a stripper front compared to a draper front.
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To determine the ROI from using a stripper front compared to a draper front.
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To increase grain protein (%) in wheat and barley by means of late applications of nitrogen (N) applied as UAN.
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To study the effect of a 1994 canola stubble on a subsequent wheat cop, and was compared against a 1994 chickpea stubble.
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To comment on nine new varieties of canola that will be marketed for 2009 sowings.
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To demonstrate the ideal depth for optimum canola establishment in local conditions.
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To compare windrowing an direct harvesting of canola.
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To investigate:
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To discuss canola variety selection for 2007.
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To discuss how to minimise risk while maximising yields.
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To determine whether high rates of P and N fertiliser result in a yield and oil benefit.
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To determine the optimum management of canola plant type and phenology when sown earlier than traditional sowing time (25 April). To assess the response of canola varieties to high and low application rates of N on grain yield and grain quality.
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To review canola varieties.
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To demonstrate three different techniques of sowing canola to determine seed placement and the effect on yield.
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To determine the optimum sowing time over a number of seasons for karoo and Narendra canola.
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To determine the optimum time of sowing for canola in the southern Mallee.
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To determine the best suited canola varieties for the Southern Mallee environment.
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To test canola varieties to provide growers with alternative options for controlling weeds.
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To conduct a canola variety trial.
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To comment on canola varieties for 2008.
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To look at 5 new canola varieties that will be released in the year.
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To determine the performance of commercial canola varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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To compare established and new canola varieties for yield and oil.
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To investigate new varieties for 2003.
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To test the six new varieties will be marketed in Victoria in 2005.
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To provide a large-scale comparison of emerging and current varieties.
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To identify the highest yielding canola variety in the southern Mallee.
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To demonstrate the suitability of various canola varieties to the Southern mallee environment.
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To determine the suitability of various canola varieties to the Southern Mallee environment.
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To compare varieties of canola, peola an lentils.
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To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.
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To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.
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To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.
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To characterise wheat and barley cultivar sensitivities to commonly used herbicides and tank mixes over several growing seasons and highlight potential yield losses resulting from in-corp herbicide use.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To investigate the impact of On-Duty residues, both in the presence and absence of an in-season Glean application, on the subsequent wheat or barley crop and in doing so test for varietal tolerance differences.
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To evaluate the feed response of barley and oats to two different N rates applied at sowing and post-sowing, and the economic returns from sheep production.
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To answer the questions 'What can I do about root diseases between now and sowing?'
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To provide advice on cereal stubble for grain legumes.
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To evaluate how new and existing wheat and barley varieties respond to grazing and post-grazing nitrogen (N) application rates.
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To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.
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To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.
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To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.
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To demonstrate growth of a number of different cereal varieties.
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To determine the level of herbicide resistance to selective in-crop herbicides in annual ryegrass across western Victoria using random weed surveys.