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To investigate the impact of stubble on frost severity and duration.
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To quantify the impact of stubble on the severity and duration of frost through canopy temperature and grain yield.
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To investigate sulfonylurea herbicide and zinc / phosphorus fertiliser interactions in wheat in the Central West NSW cropping belt.
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To study the interaction between herbicides and Zn nutrition of wheat.
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Assess the response of canola to N and to determine if the timing of N could be delayed in WA until later in the growing season
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This GRDC investment aims to look at the impact of summer cropping on waterlogged winter soils and the resultant impact on crop growth and yield in the next winter growing season. Stirlings to Coast Farmers member Steve Lynch has been growing summer crops for the sole purpose of drying his soil profile in the summer to reduce the risk of waterlo… read more
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There are three non-burning and non-mechanical techniques most commonly employed in harvest weed seed control (HWSC) systems: chaff dumping, chaff lining and chaff tram-lining. The highest adoption of HWSC is in the GRDC western region with an estimated 67% of all farmers undertaking at least one HWSC strategy in 2014.
Chaff dumping is… read more
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To discuss the agronomy of durum wheats.
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To address the need for a non-cereal crop and pasture options to provide profitable rotational crops, disease breaks and weed control opportunities for cereal production in low rainfall regions of south-eastern Australia.
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GRDC has funded a programme to address this issue and one of the projects within this programme is developing an improved understanding and implementation of management practices for brassica and pulse crops, pastures and other options to reduce the risk of crop failure and improve whole farm profitability in low rainfall south-east Australia.… read more
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To evaluate the effect of existing and new chemistry on yield in broad beans
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To determine the optimum sowing date, phenology and nitrogen management to optimise grain yield within the Central West region of NSW. These combinations were tested across two contrasting scenarios: irrigation versus dryland.
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This experiment was designed to determine the response of six canola varieties with diverse phenology and breeding (hybrid or open-pollinated (OP)) to varying stored soil water levels across two sowing dates.
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The project aimed to identify factors limiting N2 fixation and productivity of pulse crops grown on acidic soils in the high rainfall zone (HRZ) Southern Grain production region.
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To identifiy zinc deficiency in flax and treatment with zinc fertiliser.
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To investigate the effect of nitrogen rates and time of application on grain yield, oil and gross margins of Roundup Ready, Triazine Tolerant and Clearfield canola.
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To establish the occurrence of boron toxicity in barley crops in South Australia.
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To establish the micronutrient status of some South Australian soils.
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To present a review of trace element disorders in South Australian agriculture.
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To explore relationships between the availability of trace elements in some South Australian soils.
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To present a summary of nine experiments on trace elements and pasture produciton in the south-east of South Australia.
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To measure concentrations of trace elements in terra rossa and rendzina soils in South Australia.
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A review of trace element research in South Australia.
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Why do the trial?
There are around 5 million hectares of sandy soils under agricultural production in the low to medium rainfall areas of south-eastern Australia. These soils have multiple constraints limiting production including water repellence, soil acidity, compaction and low organic carbon levels leading to poor biological cycling… read more
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To evaluate a number of breeder's lines with commercial varieties to determine the most suitable triazine tolerant lines for the high rainfall zone in the south west.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for the growing conditions in the south east of Victoria.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for growing conditions in the south east of Victoria.
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To determine the performance of triticale varieties, a crop species uncommon in these low rainfall regions
of Central West NSW.
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To (i) improve the understanding of how soil moisture probes and Yield Prophet can be used to complement each other; (ii) increase the range of APSoil soil type selections in Yield Prophet by modifying existing soil types based on the probe data; (iii) provide growers with access to real-time soil moisture data and periodic Yield Prophet repor… read more
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To present research information available on role of foliar fungicide mixtures with new chemistry against barley LR in a variety with known APR.
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There is growing interest from growers in southern Western Australia around the opportunities that long season wheats can provide them in a mixed or 100% cropping farming enterprise. The primary objective of this project is to demonstrate to growers the agronomic and enterprise fit and associated benefits of including a long season wheat into th… read more
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The aim of this work was to use a range of tools to determine if we can be confident that the SclerotiniaCM app is producing reliable outputs that will help canola growers make informed management decisions in a given season
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To use a combination of N-rich strip and satellite imagery in canola to determine a variable rate nitrogen plan.
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To include a primary trial of breeding material funded by GRDC, at Minnipa, to investigate advanced common vetch lines with specific traits best suited to this region, and enable comparison with other sites in the southern cropping region.
SAGIT trials looking at vetch for a genuine legume break crop option for cereal and mixed farmers… read more
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To promote early vigour to improve biomass and yield partitioning in vetch.
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To determine wether varietal differences in chickpea plant architecture effect their competitiveness with ryegrass.
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To systematically assess the impact of sowing time, seeding rate and wetting agents on wheat establishment and productivity across a range of environments on water repellent soil and determine whether there are interactions between the agronomic options tested.
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To compare the performance of new and existing wheat varieties in four environments, under different sowing times and varying disease pressures.
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This trial is part of a series of experiments evaluating a number of varieties that may be suitable throughout south west Victoria.
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This trial is part of a series of experiments evaluating a number of varieties that may be suitable throughout south west Victoria.
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To evaluate the performance of new variety Cobra under farmer practice.
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To compare new and existing wheat variety yields within the grain testing area Agzone 2.
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To determine if new and existing varieties of wheat vary in tolerance to commonly used herbicides.
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To compare a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for south west Victoria.
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To compare a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for south west Victoria.This trial differs from other comparative crop variety testing in that it evaluates the varieties with a fungicide
programme to determine the yield response of the varieties to controlling fo… read more
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To compare a number of varieties that are close to commercial release that may be suitable for south west Victoria against five control varieties. This trial differs from other comparative crop variety testing in that it evaluates the varieties with a fungicide programme to determine the yield of the varieties in the absence of foliar leaf dise… read more
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To report on a soft wheat variety trial.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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To report on wheat variety trials.
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To report on a wheat variety trial.
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To report on wheat variety trials.
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To report on a wheat variety trial.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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To conduct a wheat variety trial.
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To explore wheat varieties.
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To assess the range of wheat varieties at several sites across the South East.
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These trials are carried out each year to assess the range of wheat varieties at several sites across the South-East.
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These trials are carried out each year to assess the range of wheat varieties at several sites across the South-East.
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To assess the yield of a range of wheat varieties at several sites across the South-East
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To assess the yield of a range of wheat varieties at several sites
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The wheat fungicide trial was established to compare wheat yield and quality with no fungicide application (Treatment 1) to wheat yield and quality with fungicide application (Treatment 2) (Table 1). Treatment 2, fungicide application, mimics standard practice in the South East.
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To assess the whole farm implementation of water repellence management strategies.
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To use whole farm soil mapping to rationalize the farm fertilizer programme.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for the growing conditions of the south east of Victoria.
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To demonstrate the effect of water rates and droplet size on the efficacy of pre-emergent herbicides, and to assess the impact of increased ground speed on the efficacy of Sakura in retained stubble systems in the medium rainfall zone of South-East of South Australia.
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Regional specific agronomy has been identified as a need by growers in RCSN Open Local Forums, in particular in using regional specific agronomy demonstrations to assist decision making of growers.
The aim of this project was to use best district practice to examine if newer varieties respond differently to increasing nutritional inpu… read more
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This was the second year of a three-year trial, funded by the South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT), to evaluate the nitrogen fixation capabilities of various legume species commonly grown on Kangaroo Island.
In this second year, the trial was set up to answer the following questions:
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To evaluate the performance of annual crops when pasture cropped over different perennial species.
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To monitor water use with a capacitance probe installed in each plot to update the water use efficiency benchmark of 20 kg/ha/mm derived from French and Schultz.
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To assess the yield response to deep ripping depth on a productive sand plain near Kojaneerup, WA.
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To determine the genotypic variation in oilseed rape to tolerate zinc deficiency and to identify the efficient genotypes.