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The DAFF and GRDC funded national trial will examine existing, new and alternative strategies for farmers in the cereal sheep zone to increase soil carbon. The trial will be used as baseline data for carbon accumulation in soils and to: discuss the various forms of soil organic carbon (plant residues, particulate, humus and resistant fractions),… read more
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The DAFF and GRDC funded national trial will examine existing, new and alternative strategies for farmers in the cereal sheep zone to increase soil carbon. The trial will be used as baseline data for carbon accumulation in soils and to: discuss the various forms of soil organic carbon (plant residues, particulate, humus and resistant fractions),… read more
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The DAFF and GRDC funded national trial will examine existing, new and alternative strategies for farmers in the cereal sheep zone to increase soil carbon. The trial will be used as baseline data for carbon accumulation in soils and to: discuss the various forms of soil organic carbon (plant residues, particulate, humus and resistant fractions),… read more
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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 investigate the management, sustainability and profitability of a range of farming systems.
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To assess the impact of various stubble management practices on the extent, severity and duration of frost and determine its effect on canopy temperature and grain yield.
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Determine thresholds of stubble loads (0, 1, 2 & 4t/ha) which increase severity and duration of frosts, and associated frost risks.
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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 test whether knowledge of soil potential, soil variation and in-season predictions of grain yield with Yield Prophet could be useful to improving management.
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To determine the impact on soil carbon fraction levels of applications of balanced nutrients, N, P and S, stubble retention, stubble removal and stubble incorporation.
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To offer students of St Anne's Agriculture classes Year 9 and 10 hands on opportunities to undertake a small field trial using varying urea rates.
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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 discuss the question, 'Should you feed in a drought?'
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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 examine fertiliser and crop management of areas at risk of flooding.
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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 demonstrate leadership and show industry-led practice change has the greatest capacity to change behaviours to reverse the trend of over-fertilising and tp promote best-practice fertiliser use, and more specifically soil testing and fertiliser application rates.
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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 conduct a zinc fertiliser program and placement technology demonstration.
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To provide information regarding fertiliser placement.
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To determine the impact of different fertiliser products and placement relative to the seed on crop emergence, crop WUE and grain yield.
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To investigate the different responses on pasture growth to triple, single and gold phosphorus fertiliser application.
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Assess the value of several traits that aim to improve the acid-soil tolerance of wheat under field conditions.
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To establish trial sites at Wagga Wagga and Temora to provide a wider geographic base for the evaluation of canola allelopathy.
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To test for field evidence for efficiency of fluid fertilisers.
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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 identify best sowing time and fungicides strategies in new pea varieties to maximise yields and to improve recommendations from the ‘Blackspot Manager’ disease risk prediction model in different regions by incorporating data from replicated trials.
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To determine optimum sowing times for the various field pea varieties in the HRZ.
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To evaluate yields and quality of new and existing field pea varieties.
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To evaluate yields and quality of new and existing field pea varieties.
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To assess the potential of the new Field Pea variety Kaspa against established varieties.
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To demonstrate growth of three lines of peas from Seednet.
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To assess the efficacy of fungicide programs to manage black spot in field peas in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).
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To determine the relative herbicide tolerance of Sturt and Moonlight.
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To investigate the potential for response to P rates above 15 kg/ha.
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To test the effect of micronutrient supplements on field pea grain yield.
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To develop cultivars and agronomic methods that will increase and stabilise production in environments characterized by variable soil types and low rainfall, of which Minnipa is a key site of the program.
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To investigate how yield responds to varying plant populations within field pea varieties in southern NSW.
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To investigate how yield responds to varying plant populations within field pea varieties in southern NSW.
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To test the yield response of new varieties and advanced lines of field pea to changes in plant populations across the different field pea growing regions of NSW
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To test the yield response of new varieties and advanced lines of fieldpeas to changes in plant populations in southern NSW.
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To test the yield response of new varieties and advanced lines of fieldpeas to changes in plant populations in south western NSW
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To look at the yield responses of different field pea plant types to varying row spacing.
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To investigate how yield responds to varying row spacings in field pea.
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To investigate how yield responds to varying row spacings in field pea.
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To investigate the effects of row spacing and plant populations across a range of advanced varieties on yields of fieldpea at Yenda in south western NSW.
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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 determine optimum sowing dates and plant densities Moonlight, Sturt (Yenda only) and 96-262*1.
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To test the adaptability of field pea varieties to changes in sowing time.
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To test the adaptability of field pea varieties to changes in sowing time in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).
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To conduct a field pea variety evaluation.
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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 and identify optimum sowing times of 6 pea varieties to maximise grain yield and minimise impacts of disease.
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To facilitate the expansion of field peas into lower rainfall areas of southern Australia through the development of new cultivars and identification of agronomic methods to improve yield and yield reliability, and to provide an economically viable break crop option in areas where pulses are not presently grown.
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To investigate a range of management options across the latest varieties and potential new releases in field pea.
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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.