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Evaluation of faba bean varities and breeding lines under irrigated conditions.
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To evaluate alternative products for faba bean desiccation.
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The Making Better Fertiliser Decisions for Cropping Systems in Australia project (BFDC) aims to provide the fertiliser industry, agency staff, agribusiness advisors and growers with the knowledge and resources to improve nutrient recommendations for optimising crop production.
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To investigate the effects of rates and granule size of copper containing superphosphate on wheat yields grown on yello9w brown gravelly soil
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To investigate if the effects of rates and granule size of copper containing superphosphate on wheat yields grown on yellow brown gravelly soil persist into following year.
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To investigate factors driving nitrous oxide emissions from uncropped (head ditch and tail drain) areas of irrigated cotton fields after water-run urea application.
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To report on the final season that was monitored by the FAST project.
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To look at the impact of break crops on Rhizoctonia inoculum in 2013 and of crop management on disease expression in the following cereal crop.
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To look at the impact of 2012 break crops on Rhizoctonia inoculum in 2013 and of crop management on disease expression in the 2013 cereal crop.
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The Grain and Graze program was keen to test the findings from extensive trial work with a group of farmers to see if the theories of grazing cereals provided the desired response under a range of conditions and farming situations. The financial gain from the exercise was also calculated.
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To demonstrate and assess the value of sowing into cereals
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Caring for Our Country funding was obtained to demonstrate the impact of new fungicides for Rhizoctonia suppression by monitoring farmer implement broad acre strips in their current farming systems in 2014.
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To demonstrate six different seeding machine set-ups sowing in stubble. This demonstration was used to compare different set-ups across two different rates of triflualin at a number of different sowing speeds.
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To conduct a demonstration of farmer-retained canola seed.
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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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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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