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To evaluate the quality and yield of Carnamah wheat in response to a range of in-furrow fungicide applications.
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To assess the effect of different rates of CalSap® applied in-furrow on an acidic sand over gravel.
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The aims of the PA component of the GRDC Stubble project were to:
• deliver a pilot project to understand how soil parameters, including PAW, vary across a paddock and understand
whether current PA datasets can correlate with PAW
• connect variations in soil moisture with nitrogen supply
• demonstrate t… read more
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To evaluate the response of wheat (yield and protein) in different paddock management zones to in-season application of nitrogen fertilizer, using the Yield Prophet system as a guide.
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To evaluate the response of wheat (yield and protein) in different paddock management zones to in-season application of nitrogen fertiliser, using the Yield Prophet system as a guide.
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To evaluate the response of wheat (yield and protein) in different paddock management zones to in-season application of nitrogen fertiliser, using the Yield Prophet system as a guide.
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To compare tactical nitrogen management options for improving nitrogen use and high quality wheat varieties including Janz, Chara and mira.
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To determine whether the lessons learnt in growing Prime Hard wheat in southern NSW be extended to the high rainfall grain regions of southern Victoria.
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To answer the question: Can the lessons learnt in growing Prime Hard wheat in southern NSW be extended to the high rainfall grain regions of Southern Victoria?
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To improve the adoption of liming practices in the medium to high rainfall zone of Western Australia by demonstrating the economic and environmental benefits of lime application and incorporation.
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To improve the adoption of liming practices in the medium to high rainfall zone of Western Australia by demonstrating the economic and environmental benefits of lime application and incorporation.
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To evaluate the influence of perennial row spacing and grass suppression on the performance of serradella summer sown into subtropical perennial-grass pastures.
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The aim of this trial was to determine potential grain yield loss from a late grazing (cutting) relative to the increased grazing production.
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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 comment on increasing economic returns of agronomic management using precision agriculture.
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To investigate the use of Gamma Radiometrics in SA.
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To report on investigations on increasing economic returns of agronomic management using
precision agriculture.
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To report on outcomes of the Upper North Water Use Efficiency Project.
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This project assists farmers in adopting improved stubble management practices by comparing the performance of two stubble
systems – full incorporation and a no-till approach – to demonstrate the impacts of each system on soil health, water penetration and crop performance.
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To test the hypothesis that incorporation of the carbon rich stubble into the soil will not necessarily increase the humus content of the soil and compare it with other stubble management systems and in particular examining the impact these systems have on the soils organic matter levels over a period of time.
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To assess grain protein following late applied foliar nitrogen at booting stage in wheat.
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To explore whether the nitrogen (N) benefits to subsequent cereals from the break crops, and savings from weed control, could offset the loss of income from break crops in the longer term.
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The aim of the project was to increase the understanding and awareness of how spatial measurement tools (EM38 mapping, Imagery data, RTK Elevation Data & Yield Mapping) can be utilised to identify variations in soil capabilities & to then demonstrate how management can potentially be changed over these areas & the economics of implementing these… read more
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To (i) ground truth through statistical analysis of small plot trials current practices of leading farmers in regards to the use of Variable Rate Technology (VRT), predictive yield modelling and nutrition modelling in improving water use efficiency and hence profitability; (ii) address the hypothesis that greater return on investment can be achi… read more
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The purpose of this laboratory-based incubation experiment was to determine if an upper limit to Organic Carbon accumulation in soil was approached with increasing C input in basalt- and granite-derived soils.
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To quantify and potentially exploit the variation in nutritive value of a range of cereal grains that come on to the feed market in South Australia to increase grain trading options for grain growers.
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This trial addresses issues which may be a barrier to early sowing in the region. In particular; 1. What varieties preform well from early sowing? How do winter and long season spring varieties compare? 2.Can early sown crops be managed to avoid excessive vegetative growth and low harvest index, particularly in dry finish? 3. How do early sown y… read more
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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 evaluate the impact of Indigo seed treatment on cereal and chickpea yield and grain quality.
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To assess the influence of additional Potassium fertiliser (Potassium Sulphate) used in crop on grain yield, tissue and grain concentration on soil with adequate K indices.
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To assess the influence of additional Potassium fertiliser (Potassium Sulphate) used in crop on grain yield, tissue and grain concentration on soil with adequate K indices.
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The aim of this experiment was to investigate the effect of two commonly used PGRs on root growth. It was hypothesised that if root growth modification occurred due to PGR application it would be a result of either the PGR altering the allometric balance between roots and shoots; a modification of the allocation of photoassimilates between th… read more
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The primary objective of PGRs is to decrease plant height to reduce lodging, however, this can also indirectly increase grain yield. If the crop is not lodged, the effect of PGR application on yield is more variable. The influence of varying levels of N and PGR timing on the grain yield of four elite barley cultivars, including the recently r… read more
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To establish the interaction between nitrogen and timing and the need for fungicide management.
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This trial is part of larger GRDC funded project, which examines whether lower plant populations and later timed nitrogen approaches are suited to the HRZ in Australia, it also examines whether these techniques which were principally established for wheat can be used in malting barley, where high protein can be undesirable.
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To study the influence of seed size on the yield of the faba bean variety PBA Nasma.
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To evaluate the effect of crop stubble management and seeding system on pre-emergent herbicide behaviour and crop safety.
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To investigate the sowing date effect on phenology and grain yield of 15 commercially relevant barley varieties compared with nine wheat varieties.
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In 2019, field experiments were conducted across various sites in the GRDC northern grains region (NGR) to determine how phenology influences grain yield responses for a diverse set of wheat genotypes. This paper presents results from the Cudal site (central eastern NSW) and discusses the sowing date influence on the phenology and grain yield… read more
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To investigate the influence of sowing date on the phenology and grain yield responses of a core set of 36 wheat genotypes.
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To support growers with agronomic decisions such as sowing time and variety selection to enhance industry profitability through improved wheat yields and grain quality.
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To support growers with agronomic decisions such as sowing time and variety selection to enhance industry profitability through improved wheat yields and grain quality
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Research on the mainland has shown that sowing lentils in the inter-row in wheat stubble encourages the plant to grow taller in pursuit of sunlight, enabling easier harvest for what is normally a short crop. Although broad beans can be a tall crop, the bottom pods contain the largest beans as these set the earliest and thus have the longest time… read more
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To evaluate the response of three genotypes of Brassica napus and one genotype of Brassica juncea to subsoil low in zinc.
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To examine the influence of temperature on readily extractable copper in soils.
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A new project being conducted by the Irrigated Cropping Council, NSW DPI, Deakin University, Murray Local Land Service and Precision Agriculture, with financial support from GRDC, started in July 2014. The long-term objective is to ‘increase grain
production and profitability from surface irrigated soils in the GRDC Southern Region by… read more
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To see how particular varieties perform on this farm.
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To compare the performance of liquid, freeze dried and granule inoculants on chickpea production.
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FarmLink’s role is to establish two paddock scale replicated experiments to –
• Increase awareness of subsoil acidity, and
• Demonstrate effectiveness of innovative technology to ameliorate and/or prevent subsoil acidity on a farm scale
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To observe growth and yield response in field peas to the use of seed inoculants.
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To evaluate the application of various inoculant to lentils for yield response
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To compare the performance of liquid, freeze dried and granule inoculants on chickpea production.
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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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The expected outcome of the project is that by 2021, growers in the MRZ of the South East and their advisors will have access to new relevant information on diverse crop rotations and integrated farming systems, particularity the incorporation of a pasture phase.
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The expected outcome of the project is that by 2021, growers in the MRZ of the South East and their advisors will have access to new relevant information on diverse crop rotations and integrated farming systems, particularity the incorporation of a pasture phase. This will allow for better crop sequencing decision making, with the aim of increas… read more
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To examine whether integrating row placement, stubble management, chickpea row spacing and a ground engaging tool would affect Fp incidence and grain yield in wheat in a chickpea–wheat sequence grown under a zero-tillage system.
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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 investigate weed suppression through cultural management practices and various crops and cultivars.
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To combine existing knowledge with new techniques for effective integrated weed management to control herbicide resistant ryegrass.
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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 report on ian ntegrated weed management demonstration - cultural and chemical methods for controlling herbicide resistant annual ryegrass.
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The aim was to investigate ryegrass control using Bayer Sakura 850 WG and other commonly used herbicides in mixtures or as standalone treatments.
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To assess the effectiveness and applicability of cultural control practices prior to crop seeding in combination with pre-emergent herbicides for the management of herbicide resistant annual ryegrass in the high rainfall zone of Victoria.
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To test the viability of establishing lucerne pastures in areas where they have not been traditionally grown.
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To investigate factorial combinations of sowing time, varieties and seed rate with herbicide strategies for ryegrass management.
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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 examine the influence of two nitrogen timings: 40kg N/ha applied at tillering (GS22) or first node (GS31) and four fungicide strategies on levels of yellow leaf spot (YLS).
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To examine the influence of two nitrogen timings: 40kg N/ha applied at tillering (GS22) or first node (GS31) and four fungicide strategies on levels of yellow leaf spot (YLS).
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To assess the impact of strobilurin application on the need for PGR application.
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To examine the interaction between plant density and nitrogen application in eight barley varieties in central west NSW.
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To evaluate the effect of plant growth regulator (PGR) appliaction in early-sown first wheat grown under different levels of nitrogen application.
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To determine how soil inversion and banded surfactants change the availability of soil nutrients.
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To examine the relationship between crop Zinc nutrition and Rhizoctonia root rot.
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To test the hypothesis that altered Mn nutrition of barley affects the development of cereal cyst nematode and damage to the host.
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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 examine the interaction of Nitrogen management with disease management in winter barley Inverleigh
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To quantify how “upfront” nitrogen application versus application at stem elongation (GS 30-31) influences the need for disease control in varieties of differing disease resistance.
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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 review of zinc and crop production on the Darling Downs.
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To report on interactions between management practices and soil biota in northern farming systems.
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This experiment has attempted to use rainfall timing (imitated by overhead irrigation) to mitigate the negative weather impacts on
dry matter production both before and after flowering in an early and late summer TOS. A wide gap between TOS was deliberately
used to create the largest contrast in weather conditions that the cro… read more
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To increase productivity of pulses in the LRZ through increasing podding height, plant height and harvestability. This work builds on previous successful trials in the SA Mallee
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In Western Australia, break crop options are currently limited and there is a high proportion of wheat and barley grown in rotation. Cereal crops account for 60-70% of paddocks sown in any one year, with the remaining area sown to a range of crop and pasture types including canola, lupin, clover, volunteer pasture, or left as fallow. In addition… read more
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To demonstrate the rotational benefits of a sequence of broadleaf, legume, and pasture crops for the production of wheat in the Kwinana West and East zones of WA.