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To determine the agronomic conditions required to grow a quality barley product suitable for malting.
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To answer the question 'Growing season rainfall at Birhcip - is there any pattern'.
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The aim of this trial was to compare the performance of very early sown wheat varieties, their early grazing potential and ability to recover from grazing.
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To determine whether in the high rainfall areas of the Wimmera the use of growth regulators would be beneficial.
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To present options and guidelines for chemical insect control.
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To provide guidelines to developing a robust leasing or share farming system.
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To discuss harvest options for dry years.
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To discuss a 7-year comparison of grain marketing options for wheat and canola in Victoria.
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To determine the performance of new and current barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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To determine the performance of new and current barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee
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To discuss header set-up for low yielding crops.
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To improve soil health and sustainable soil management practices in the region.
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To improve farmer’s capacity to manage soil health issues by providing information and access to soil management strategies and techniques
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To discuss common heliotrope on Victorian farms
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To raise the awareness of the carry-over or residual effect in alkaline soils of some herbicides on the following crop and show the visual phyto-toxic effects of these herbicides.
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To run a herbicide diagnostic field school.
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To identify the most effective herbicide brews to control elongating amsinckia.
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To investigate weed control options in regular canola to assist with possible registration of these herbicide options.
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To ascertain the best herbicide options for new varieties: to compare Tyson as an existing desi chickpea to two new varieties: Howzat and ICCV96836.
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To determine the herbicide tolerance of Morava, Blanchefleur and Languedoc vetch.
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To investigate a range of herbicides on crop tolerances in three chickpea varieties.
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To test and compare the tolerance of new wheat varieties to both high and low rates of new chemical formulations with widely used herbicides.
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To trial a number of herbicide treatments applied to field peas, chickpeas, lentils and lupins to determine effective weed control and their effects on the crops.
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To evaluate the performance of new and current barley varieties in the Mallee and Wimmera.
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To investigate the yield response of wheat to zinc enriched fertiliser, MAP and no fertiliser control.
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To discuss how did DAWA seasonal forecasts go in 2003?
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To disucss how farmers get lucky.
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To test if no-till crops grown on clay soils in the low rainfall, southern Mallee environment would yield better if more straw could be retained on the soil surface from the previous crop.
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To discuss how to deal with stripe rust.
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To identify key soil indicators for sustained agricultural production.
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To improve the management of grain crops in the Mallee region of Victoria using precision agricultural technology: and more specifically, to improve the understanding of the causes of spatial variability within a paddock and its interaction with seasonal conditions as this knowledge is regarded as essential to developing appropriate management s… read more
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To raise industry awareness of imi-tolerant barley as a potential tool for integrated weed management in Victoria and South Australian Mallee.
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To investigate the yield and quality effects of a delayed harvest on a range of barley varieties.
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To evaluate the impact of grazing intensity on forage value, crop recovery and grain production of a wheat crop in the Victorian Mallee.
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To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil and chickpea varieties and breeding lines to interrow sowing in wider row spacings than conventional cropping systems.
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To compare soil moisture, soil nitrogen and profitability of five different vetch end-use treatments from 2012, sown to wheat in 2013.
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To discuss the implications of the 2002 drought for weed management.
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To discuss how to improve ecological function in vegetation remnants.
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To evaluate adaptive farm systems using a case study farm and then to develop simple approaches which farmers can use to help their decision making, especially in the fact of continuing uncertain seasons and profit margins.
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To discuss options for improving profits and managing risk: two keys to the future.
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To develop productive and sustainable cropping systems for the alkaline sodic soils in the Wimmera and southern Mallee.
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To investigate how to improve the productivity of sodic soils in the Wimmera and southern Mallee.
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To test the effects of subsoil remediation on crop water use and yield.
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To test the effects of subsoil remediation on crop water use and yield.
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To investigate in-crop nitrogen timing and product choice for wheat.
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To answer the question 'Can we manage inputs in-crop that will yield well in a good season whilst also maintaining yields and keeping costs down in poorer seasons?'.
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To estimate in-crop risk management using the Yield Prophet.
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To determine which soil tests and tissue tests could be used to increase the likelihood of profitable responses from the application of nitrogen to wheat.
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To assess grain protein following late applied foliar nitrogen at booting stage in wheat.
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To provide an indication of when stripe rust is likely to affect a particular district, enabling local growers to take measures to protect any unprotected crops before the disease becomes intense.
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To establish the interaction between nitrogen and timing and the need for fungicide management.
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To demonstrate the effects on plant density, nodulation and yield from inoculating legume seed using the correct method, applying inoculum dry and sowing 7 days after inoculating seed.
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To determine whether crop growth and yield responses are likely from inoculating legumes on alkaline clay-loams in the Southern Mallee.
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To provide a calendar as a guide to insect pests that could be expected during each of hte major crop and pasture growing phases.
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To give farmers a bettter understanding of the different pest management tools available and to identify which work bets in certain circumstances.
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To give farmers a better understanding of the different pest management tools available and identify which work best in certain circumstances.
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To determine the effectiveness of weed seed set control strategies in driving down the seedbank without reducing yields in cereal-intensive cropping systems.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To look at canopy management and its integration with disease management principles in the different climates of southern Australia.
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To look at canopy management and its integration with disease management principles in the different climates of southern Australia.
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The aim was to investigate the performance of growth regulators in osmoprotectants to counteract the effects of water stress in plants.
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To investigate the effect of water quality on ‘dim’ herbicides, Select and Aramo.
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To investigate the effect that four different nozzle types had on spray efficacy using herbicides with different modes of action.
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To investigate the effect that four different nozzle types had on spray efficacy using herbicides with different modes of action.
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To investigate whether continuous wheat is viable.
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To determine the competitiveness of current and new barley varieties so management packages can be developed for growers to use.
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To investigate the discovery of two Lontrel resistant weed biotypes have been identified (not in Australia).
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To determine whether maintaining stubble cover in low rainfall environments increases summer moisture conservation, and, to establish the minimum stubble quantity or threshold necessary to ensure maximum moisture conservation over the summer.
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To discuss the common questions of are: ‘Is this dry spell a permanent feature? Is it just due to chance? Is it a periodic event?’
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To determine the varietal tolerance of new and current barley varieties to foliar diseases (leaf rust, scald and SFNB).
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To determine whether highly zinc responsive crops such as faba beans and lentils would respond to additional zinc when grown on a paddock which has had a good zinc history.
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To discuss the issues and challenges facing UK farmers.
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To demonstrate the effect of applying K-Komplex liquid fertiliser to a wheat crop.
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To discuss how to keep summer weed control cost effective.
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to investigate the efficacy of knockdown mixes and timings on the control of ryegrass and broadleaf weeds prior to cropping.
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To investigate the effectiveness of the use of different herbicides and spraying regimes prior to sowing in controlling annual ryegrass and to increase grower awareness of rotating the various knockdown options pre-sowing.
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To measure the variation of extractable (labile) P in the crop row and inter row following drought affected cereals in 2006 & to investigate the removal of P in relation to yield.
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To demonstrate the feed value of a forage brassica as spring/early summer grazing option and to measure lamb growth rate performance.
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To measure increases in grain protein in various barley varieties at flowering with different amounts of applied nitrogen.
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To investigate whether ryegrass seed set could be manipulated using alternative harvesting techniques such as windrowing and crop topping.
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To provide results of a legume herbicide tolerance trial.
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To provide quick and easy ways to obtain reliable information in the field for use in the management of legume nitrogen.
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To assess the impact of rhizobial inoculation on the performance of four different legumes: chickpeas, lentils, faba beans and peas in the Victorian Wimmera.
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To answer 'where do lentils fit into a rotation?'
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To determine the best row spacing to optimise lentil production in the Southern Mallee.
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To determine the best sowing rate to optimise lentil production in the Southern Mallee.
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to comment on Botrytis or grey mould and compare it's action in Australia vs Canada.
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To determine the effect of lentil yield of the four most commony used seed treatments.