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To evaluate the response of different barley varieties to various aspects of crop management. Variables examined included nitrogen timing, weed management, weed competition and row spacing.
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To find more reliable methods to control rhizoctonia.
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To demonstrate the best methods to control rhizoctonia root rot
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To demonstrate the symptoms of crown rot and how different varieties tolerate the disease pressure.
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To compare the tolerance of different cereal crops to crown rot, and therefore determine the most tolerant cereals for paddocks at risk of crown rot.
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Working with 60 farmers, counts were carried out in three districts of South Australia to measure the effectiveness of different types of management on snail control.
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To investigate management options which reduce the risk of failure when growing wheat on wheat, or barley on wheat stubble.
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To investigate options for managing canola for low disease and optimum yield.
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To investigate the suitability of new and pre-release winter wheat varieties to the Wimmera and Mallee, and define their optimal time of sowing.
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Experiment 1: To investigate the suitability of new and pre-release winter wheat varieties to the Wimmera and Mallee and define their optimal time of sowing.
Experiment 2: To investigate the amount of rainfall required to establish an early sown winter wheat crop in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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To discuss how to manage herbicide carryover after a drought.
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To investigate herbicide control options and alternative strategies for the reduction in seed set of ryegrass.
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To investigate options for managing hostile subsoils.
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To investigate options for managing hostile subsoils.
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To assess new and current varieties for thier tolerance to leaf rust.
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To address the concerns of landholders and local CMAs as to the long-term survival of remnant vegetation.
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To develop risk management tools which will assist farmers to make better decisions in relation to optimising inputs in line with seasonal outcomes.
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To discuss the APSIM model for wheat in the southern Mallee.
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To discuss how to manage root lesion nematodes in cereals.
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To discuss how to manage risks in cropping.
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To conduct an on-farm barley demonstration.
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To report on the 'Measuring your business performance FAST Project.
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To evaluate the tolerance of recently released and commonly grown barley varieties to metribuzin.
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To determine if there was an economical benefit in top-dressing nitrogen on a steep sandy rise, with a good zinc history at Hopetoun.
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To conduct an on-farm barley demonstration.
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To conduct an on-farm canola demonstration.
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To present the idea of more profit less risk under climate change conditions.
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To investigate the potential for using oats to increase fodder production over the early part of winter, thereby reducing the risk of running out of feed.
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To discuss mouse management options.
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To outline possible reasons for poor performance of lambs following mulesing and management to minimise the risks.
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To conduct a chickpea demonstration.
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To measure nitrous oxide losses from inhibitor treated and slow release fertiliser products and their effect on wheat yield and quality
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To conduct a Narbon bean variety evaluation.
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To develop a regionally viable farming system which incroporates the establishment of native perennial pastures, cropping into native pasture adn rotational grazing of the pasture and stubble.
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To test the performance of barley sown into established native pasture into two different soil types in the Wimmera and Mallee regions.
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To test whether the organic fertiliser, Natrakelp, increases crop growth or yield.
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To evaluate commercially available forage cereal varieties, comparing their feed value and suitability for grazing or grain production in low rainfall Mallee and Wimmera environments.
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To evaluate commercially available forage cereal varieties, comparing their feed value and suitability for grazing or grain production in low rainfall Mallee and Wimmera environments.
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To test new chickpea varieties for low rainfall areas.
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To determine if new and existing barley varieties respond differently to varied nitrogen rates applied at sowing
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To determine the best nitrogen and sulphur strategy for wheat grown on sandy soils in the Mallee with a full profile of moisture and a forecast El Nino.
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To determine the relationship between alternative break crops and root disease.
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To discuss the importance of nitrogen fertility and how you can go about finding out how to practically and economically use nitrogen either as fixed by rhizobium or as fertiliser.
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To measure nitrogen loss (as ammonia) from volatilisation after top-dressing wheat crops grown on two soil types: sandy loam in the Mallee and Wimmera clay, using different fertiliser types and application rates.
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To determine the nitrogen responses of new barley varieties.
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To develop nitrogen management strategies that optimise the chance of achieving malt quality in Gairdner barley.
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This trial is investigating the uptake by wheat of different nitrogen fertilisers.
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To test the applicability of the South Australian 'Slide rule' type of arrangement whereby nitrogen requirement of a cereal crop can be quickly estimated before sowing in the Victorian southern Mallee and northern Wimmera.
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To assess a number of different nitrogen timings and nitrogen products.
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To investigate (as part of a larger trial) where the nitrogen requirements of wheat.
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To determine whether differences exist in the uptake of nitrogen between three commonly grown wheat varieties.
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To outline the concept for nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and how it can be used on the farm to optimise yield and protein.
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To measure: nitrous oxide fluxes in a wheat crop when different rates of nitrogenous urea fertiliser were applied. The effect on wheat yield and quality of applying fertiliser at zero, medium and high urea rates.
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To conduct a noodle wheat agronomy demonstration.
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To provide some points to consider when choosing which crop types to grow and what to consider in growing them.
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To provide information about three crop types (production notes) grown in the Southern Mallee and Northern Wimmera: barley, lentils and faba beans.
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To use machinery guidance to enable crops to be grown on wide row-spacings, with crops sown into the space between rows in the next yera.
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The aim for nutrient management in 2007 is to supply the crop requirements without over- or under-investing.
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To discuss nutrient strategies for 1995.
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To provide nutrition messages for 2006.
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To investigate the effect of seeding rate and nitrogen rate on oats for hay production.
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To investigate herbicide options for the control of ryegrass in three oaten hay varieties.
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To show the production potential of new oaten hay varieties in the southern Mallee/northern Wimmera.
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To investigate the herbicide tolerance of three new canola quality mustard lines.
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To enhance the adaptive capacity of agricultural systems in order to deal with further changes expected as a result of human-induced climate change.
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To identify the options that farmers would, and in some instances are, using to manage climate variability and adapt to climate change.
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To investigate the optimum fertiliser placement when sowing wheat.
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To discuss optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates.
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To identify the critical P fertiliser rates for a broad range of crops on different soil types in the southern Mallee and northern Wimmera. This trial was also undertaken in 1999.
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To investigate phosphorus use efficiency in six crop types - barley, wheat, canola, lentils, faba beans and field peas. This is the third year of this BCG research.
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To investigate phosphorus use efficiency in six crop types - barley, wheat, canola, lentils, faba beans and field peas. This is the third year of this BCG research.
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To investigate phosphorus use efficiency in six crop types - barley, wheat, canola, lentils, faba beans and field peas. This is the third year of this BCG research.
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1. To evaluate the performance of commercial seeders in establishing canola and lentils by conducting a survey of paddocks.
2. To determine the effect of sowing density, row spacing and seeder type on plant establishment in canola and lentils and subsequent grain yield.
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To demonstrate how Yield Prophet can be used to optimise production with reduced risk.
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To highlight some of the major issues of trifluralin use and present ways they can be resolved with a little additional care and forward thinking.
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To discuss PA management.
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To investigate herbicide options on newly sown pasture crops at three sites.
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The aim of this project was to assess parture herbicide tolerance at Charlton in 2000.
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To discuss how to achieve a dense medic dominant pasture.
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To discuss options for pasture management.
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To measure the trade-off between medic pasture growth and yield of a following cereal crop, with different termination timing of the medic pasture.
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To identify suitable pasture species for the SA Mallee.
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Perennial pastures are being investigated for their potential fit in the Wimmera Mallee region.
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To explore the use of perennial shrubs as a feed source for profitable and sustainable grazing systems in low-to-medium rainfall areas of hte Mallee.
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To compare the performance in 2003 of 12 canola varieties suited to Mallee environments.
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To compare two soil phosphorus (P) tests (Diffusive Gradient Thin Films (DGT) and Colwell P) for their prediction of crop responses to applied-P in farmer paddocks.
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To discuss performance of wheat varieties in the 1997 season.
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To identify safe options for using phenoxy herbicides on wheat displaying different maturity (short-, medium- and long-season).
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To determine if inoculation with Penicillium bilaii will increase the availability of phosphate to wheat under Victorian Mallee soil and climatic conditions.
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To assess the soil and fertiliser (external) P requirements of different crop types in low phosphorus environments.
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To answer the question 'How much P should I apply in 2007?'
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To investigate the possible interaction between time of sowing and the phosphorus requirement of the crop at two locations (Birchip and Murtoa).
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To compare commercially available fertiliser on the performance of Schooner barley.
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To provide advice on strategies for winter crops for 1997.
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The aim of this trial was to assess zinc deficiencies in both cereals and pulses in the Sea Lake region.