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To examine the role of vesticular-arbuscular mycorrhizae (VAM), often referred to as 'friendly fungi' in the phosphours nutrition of winter crops in Victoria.
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This paper assesses the economic benefits of green manuring and the potential costs. It also investigates the circumstances in which green manuring will be profitable and those that result in losses to growers.
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This paper assesses the economic benefits of green manuring and the potential costs. It also investigates the circumstances in which green manuring will be profitable and those that result in losses to growers.
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To investigate whether polymer films can improve yields of short season crops when late sown.
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This project is investigating where and how perennials, including fodder shrub species can fit into our farming systems and the benefits they can have on production andsustainability.
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To discuss the year that was 1995.
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It is relatively easy to describe a particular year on one’s own farm. To specify precisely what happened over our whole region is the challenging part. Far more difficult is to accurately describe the feelings of the farmers, not to mention those of their partners: the hopes, expectations, commitment, hard work, disappointments and the conseq… read more
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To comment on 2007 - the year that was.
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To discuss the year that was - 2008.
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To (i) develop a crop monitoring technique to assess wild radish density and provide growers with an estimated cost of hand weeding for a range of wild radish densities, and (ii) assess the efficacy of hand weeding of wild radish using backpacker labour.
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To provide data to assist in decision making of using a cereal for grazing, hay and/or grain based on seasonal conditions, while knowing the relative multipurpose performance of the cereal options.
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To compare alternative agronomic practices that may improve establishment of new and current barley varieties in wider row spacings.
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To compare alternative agronomic practices that may improve establishment of new and current barley varieties in wider row spacings.
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To quantify nitrogen leaf uptake when applying UAN with and without follow-up rain; and to determine the effect of streaming versus standard nozzles on nitrogen leaf uptake.
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To screen winter and for summer crops for the tolerance of copper deficiency in glasshouse trials.
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To investigate the production, management and profitability of three different pulse crops.
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To establish the occurrence of boron toxicity in barley crops in South Australia.
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To determine the most effective method of applying trace elements to crops on sandy soil that has been clay spread.
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To explore the effectiveness of trace elements when applied with fluid nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser.
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To investigate the control of brome and barley grass in Meering wheat and Balleon barley.
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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 report on sowing times on heads of spring-sown canola and wheat.
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To report on sowing times on heads of spring-sown canola and wheat.
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The purpose of the trial was to compare growth rates and dry matter production of alternative pastures with traditional medic pastures
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To compare a standard practice of an upfront MAP fertiliser only, to this same rate of MAP plus a Twin N foliar application.
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The GRDC Low Rainfall Crop Sequencing project is identifying the effects that different break crops and rotations have on Mallee farming systems. Farmers have increasingly adopted continuous cereal cropping strategies as non-cereal crops are perceived as riskier than cereals due to greater yield and price fluctuations. However, break phases can … read more
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The aim of this project was to test if including one or two-year break phases in low rainfall crop sequences could successfully address agronomic constraints to increase the productivity of subsequent cereal crops and improve the profitability of the long term crop sequence when compared to maintaining continuous cereal
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To investigate whether liquid N as UAN is a better and more reliable source of N compared to using granular urea.
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To understand the stages of resistance development within wild radish populations and to develop strategies from a grower’s perspective for growing weed free crops in the presence of resistant radish.
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To provide information relating to managing sclerotinia stem rot in canola.
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To increase grower and adviser understanding of: (i) tools available for better crop management decisions; (ii) soil water relationships and plant available water capacity (PAWC); and (iii) influence of seasonal conditions and PAWC on crop yield potential.
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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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To understand the impact of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling on disease suppression.
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To evaluate the agronomic and economic benefits of using different rotations and management strategies to deal with Group A resistant ryegrass in a farming system.
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To report on the use of crop sensors as an aid for nitrogen decisions.
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To investigate the feasibility of utilising image data, collected using UAVs, to make timely management decisions relating to slug damage in emerging canola.
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To investigating if applying fertiliser according to productivity zones is more profitable than blanket applications of fertiliser across the whole paddock. We aimed to design trials to demonstrate to growers that matching fertiliser inputs to productivity zones will increase whole paddock profitability compared to blanket applications of fertil… 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 undertake a variable rate grazing trial in pastures.
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To assess the economic benefit of variable rate nitrogen application, when combined with crop sensor information and yield potential zones to build the variable rate application map.
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Demonstrate variable rate technology on farm and how it can be applied to manage fertiliser use and to minimise nutrient enrichment or depletion that leads to poor soil health.
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To evaluate the relative resistance of each variety to Pt under field conditions.
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To evaluate the relative resistance of each variety to Pratylenchus thornei under field conditions.
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To compare new and old varieties of crops in a demonstration trial.
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To improve canola production through identification of varieties and agronomic practices with superior performance under irrigation.
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To improve irrigated cereal production through identification of varieties and agronomic practices with superior perfomance under irrigation.
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To investigate the potential of new vetch species/varieties for very low rainfall areas in Southern Australia.
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To explore potential of new vetch lines for varieties in Australian crop rotations.
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To integrate productive perennial pastures into annual cropping systems so as to improve the profitability and sustainability of dryland farming.
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Determine the value of Wedgetail wheat for yearling steers. Determine the impact of grazing on the grain yeld of wedgetail wheat.
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To investigate options for broadleaf weed and grass control in oats.
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To satisfy the questions of local farmers.
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To comment on the Farm Management 500 and Sustainable Technology (FAST) Project: what did the crops grow on in 1994?
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Interviews were conducted on each farm to determine for each paddock the species that were sown
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To address the question, what would happen if a commercial cereal crop was sown at such an early date?
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To identify key ingredients of agronomic packages that deliver high yielding canola crops with high oil contents in the Parndana environment.
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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 examine the integration of the principles of disease management and canopy management in cereal crops.
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To assess the effect of varying the seed and fertiliser rates on the yield of wheat grown after wheat.
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To assess if the previous year's results from this experiment could be replicated in a year with average to above average growing season rainfall (GSR).
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To demonstrate the benefits of applying phosphorus and nitrogen to wheat in cereal-leume rotations on sodic soils in the southern Mallee.
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To improve crop production by determining the effect of sowing time and sowing rate on crop yield and grain quality risks of new wheat varieties.
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To improve crop production by determining the effect of sowing time and sowing rate on crop yield and grain quality risks of new wheat varieties.
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The aim of these trials was to compare existing wheat varieties under dryland and irrigated conditions, evaluate new breeding material and continue to assess the disease responses of all germplasm.
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This trial is apart of a three year GRDC project to develop a benchmark to be used to accurately determine crops' N status.
The aim of this years trial is to determine how a crops’ N status changes in relation to early sowing and variety.
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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 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 assess the performance of current vetch varieties and ANVBP lines.
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To shed some light on why cereals yielded so much better compared with pulse crops and canola in the southern Mallee in 2001.
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The aim of this trial was to assess the screening capability of malting barley and silverstar wheat.
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To determine the performance of new and current wheat varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee
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To compare new Hybrids vs OP varieties in the mid to late maturity groups suited to the 2.0 to 4.0 t/ha environments evaluated statistically head to head across all 5 herbicide Technologies. The trial also evaluated the performance of Spring types (e.g. Hyola® Hybrids) vs SuperHyola® (late spring types) vs Winter Graze n Grain types in a compo… read more
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Can cover crops increase infiltration and net water accumulation in pivot-irrigated cotton systems with low (<30%) ground cover?
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To determine the optimal sowing rate for winter threat to the crops potential yield, and even wheat in the Hamilton district.
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To compares grain yields and quality of milling oats, durum wheat, bread and feed wheats and feed and malt barley varieties and the subsequent gross margin when all crops are grown side by side on the Wolseley flats.
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To compare grain yields and quality of milling oats, durum wheat, bread wheats and feed and malt barley and the subsequent gross
margin when all crops are grown side by side on the Wolseley flats.
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To provide information about Sclerotinia stem rot (white mould).
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To determine if cereal wheat yields can be increased using X-tend® (polyolefin films) that have been developed for use in agriculture.
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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 investigate wider range of fungicides for yellow leaf spot control.
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To investigate wider range of fungicides for yellow leaf spot control.
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To evaluate the performance of annual crops when pasture cropped over different perennial species.
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To examine the impact of crown rot on yield and grain quality in a range of durum, bread wheat and barley varieties across two sowing times near Tulloona in north-western NSW in 2015.
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To test Yield Prophet for 2005.
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To deal with aspects of a large project on diagnosis of the deficiency, yield responses to zinc, residual value of zinc, protein increases and improvement of quality, and genotypic effects in relation to zinc.
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To explore the effectiveness of zinc when applied with fluid nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser.
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To establish the zinc requirements of crops growing on vertisols.
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To review of importance of zinc in the Victorian Mallee and Wimmera.
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To conduct zinc nutrition trials.
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To see if zinc was limiting yield potential.