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To compare the performance of new and existing barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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To evaluate thirty barley breeding lines from the Tasmanian breeding program.
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To investigate and identify potential new malting varieties for Victorian growers.
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To provide a barley variety update.
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To assess the benefit of early aphid management and BYDV control through the use of seed applied insecticides
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To evaluate the timing of insecticide treatments on deterring aphids from feeding on newly sown wheat and how this impacts on final wheat yield and to evaluate the use of an insecticide seed dressing to give early aphid control.
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The aim of this trial is to evaluate the timing of insecticide treatments and the use of insecticide seed dressings on deterring aphids from feeding on newly sown wheat.
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To determine optimum sowing dates and sowing densities for maximising yield of new faba bean varieties in high rainfall areas.
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To determine yield and quality benefits from irrigation of high value grain legumes. Further studies will determine the most appropriate timing of irrigation.
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To improve the long term control of Rhizoctonia by increasing the understanding of the interactions between disease inoculum and natural soil suppressive activity and to improve the prediction and management of disease.
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To assess wether field pea breeding advancements in resistance to blackspot are significant enough to allow management changes to sowing time in this crop.
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To report on blackspot manager – release of blackspot spores from pea stubbles.
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To examine if winter cereals can be successfully sown into exiting lucerne stands to lift winter production but without compromising lucerne production the following summer.
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To determine whether vegetative response of genotypes to boron can mimic the genotypic yield responses to boron in the field.
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To confirm whether the parameter chosen to identify efficient germplasm is adequate, or otherwise, a sub-set of genotypes from the solution culture screening are evaluated against B-efficiencies derived from the field.
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To compare Brassica juncea with B. napus and discusses where B. juncea could be grown in South Australia.
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To determine the ways in which different crop types influence available soil P and the P requirements of subsequently sown cereals
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To evaluate the effects of break crop species on the yield of subsequent wheat crop.
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To evaluate the effects of break crop species on the yield of subsequent wheat crop.
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To conduct an on-farm chick-pea demonstration.
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To report on results of a visit by Wayne Hawthorne (esteemed pulse expert from Pulse Australia) to Kangaroo Island.
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To evaluate herbicide options for difficult to control weeds in chickpeas.
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To investigate selection of the right rotation and herbicide strategy for brome grass management.
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To investigate the potential of using a modified delving operation, which rips the clay and allows topsoil/gravel to fall back into the clay slot, to create a subsurface drainage line through the clay and reduce waterlogging.
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To investigate yield and phenology of canola varieties when sown in March to provide better advice to agronomists and growers about the best varieties to use and safe sowing and flowering windows.
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To investigate yield and phenology of canola varieties when sown in March to provide better advice to agronomists and growers about the best varieties to use and safe sowing and flowering windows.
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To investigate yield and phenology of canola varieties when sown in March to provide better advice to agronomists and growers about the best varieties to use and safe sowing and flowering windows.
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To identify key ingredients of agronomic packages that deliver high yielding wheat crops with good quality in the Parndana environment.
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to compare the performance of commercial hybrid seed against farmer retained (F1) seed using conventional, triazine and imidazalinone tolerant varieties.
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To assess the effect of blackleg on canola crops and varieties in the south east of SA.
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To test a range of early maturing canola cultivars.
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To test 6 commercial TT and 6 commercial non IT canola varieties.
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To compare the plant density response of yield and oil content between hybrid and open-pollinated (OP) canola in Triazine tolerant (TT) and Roundup Ready (RR) herbicide tolerance groups.
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To demonstrate the ideal depth for optimum canola establishment in local conditions.
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To demonstrate whether current seeder set ups within the region are capable of successfully sowing canola into heavy stubble.
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To evaluate canola varieties.
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To enable growers to evaluate a selected number of varieties under specific local conditions.
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To identify variety x sowing date combinations to achieve optimum flowering window.
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To report on a grower experience of growing canola in the Western NSW.
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To determine the optimum management of canola plant type and phenology when sown earlier than traditional sowing time (25 April). To assess the response of canola varieties to high and low application rates of N on grain yield and grain quality.
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To determine the optimum sowing time over a number of seasons for karoo and Narendra canola.
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To determine the optimum time of sowing for canola in the southern Mallee.
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To investigate the level of damage that may occur from clethodim applications and what factors might influence the degree of damage, over two seasons
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To report on the canola triazine resistant variety trial.
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To evaluate new and existing canola varieties, sown using farmer equipment.
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To identify the highest yielding canola variety in the southern Mallee.
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This trial compares a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that are potentially
suitable for growing in southern Victoria.
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To compare a number of commercially available varieties representing the different herbicide systems.
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To compare a number of commercially available varieties representing the different herbicide systems.
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To assess the performance of newly released canola varieties in the West Midlands.
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Trials were established to evaluate a range of canola varieties and breeders lines under a range of environments in the South East of SA.
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The canola variety trial at Inverleigh compares a number of commercially available Triazine Tolerant and Clearfield canola varieties.
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To investigate swathing early then harvesting for weed seed collection to evaluate usefulness for farmers in providing another tool for integrated weed management, especially for barley grass that matures and sheds seed before crops ripen.
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Barley grass continues to be a major grass weed in cereal cropping regions on the upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). Swathing a cereal crop involves cutting and collecting the cereal crop and weeds into windrows at 20 to 40% grain moisture and allowing it to dry. Having the weed seeds cut and in the windrow before the seed heads shatter and before tille… read more
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To evaluate a range of new and existing varieties of wheat suitable for early- and mid-sowing in Gippsland.
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To assess the impact of BYDV on wheat yield and also the effect of a range of fungicide treatments on wheat yield during 2009.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.
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To evaluate how new and existing wheat and barley varieties respond to grazing and post-grazing nitrogen (N) application rates.
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To evaluate which cereal species and variety will produce the most early feed.
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To demonstrate the effect of inoculating chickpeas.
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To observe the early growth and establishment of wheat as well as final yield when seed was treated with Rancona C compared to other products or the untreated.
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To evaluate two chickpea varieties sown at two seeding depths and two seeding rates by two different row spacings.
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To determine
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To investigate the potential of new chickpea and lentil varieties in the high rainfall zone of Victoria.
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To identify chickpea plant types which are more competitive with ryegrass.
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To determine the optimum disease management strategy for Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To maximise production advantages of new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties through the development of appropriate disease management strategies.
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To determine the optimum sowing date to reduce effects from abiotic stresses and increase grain yield in chickpea. These experiments also aimed to identify phenological drivers of crop development in chickpea and determine which varieties are best adapted to the target environments.
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To maximise production advantages of new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties through the identification of optimum sowing dates and plant densities.
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To maximise production advantages of new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties through the identification of optimum plant densities.
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To demonstrate the risk of sowing certain crop types in the year following application of common pre-emergent herbicide mixtures to chickpeas.
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To investigate and model the effect of time of sowing on grain yields of chickpea and faba bean in southern NSW.
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To determine the optimum sowing time for chickpeas in the Mallee environment.
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To determine optimum sowing dates, plant densities and row space for new kabuli and desi chickpea varieties.
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To report on chickpea sowing time x row space x plant density at Wimmera (Minyip),Victoria.
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To evaluate chickpea varieties.
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To (over a number of years and different seasons) determine the optimum sowing time for chickpeas (Desavic).
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To determine the optimum time of sowing for canola in the southern Mallee.
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To test chickpea variety yields as part of the Pulse Breeding Australia and National Variety Testing programs.
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To develop variety specific management packages for ascochyta blight of chickpea.
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To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application.
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To investigate the adaptability of a range of chickpea varieties and breeding lines to acidic soils of the Dookie region.
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To promote early vigour to improve biomass and yield partitioning in chickpea.
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To evaluate autumn or spring sowing for chickpea varieties in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).
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To investigate the adaptability of a range of chickpea varieties and breeding lines to varying sowing dates.
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To investigate the adaptability of a range of chickpea varieties and breeding lines to varying sowing dates.
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To investigate adaptability chickpea, faba bean, field pea, lupin, vetch and lentil varieties and breeding lines to spring sowing. Specifically, in chickpea there was a focus on new early flowering breeding lines with improved cold tolerance during the pod set phase.
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To determine the interaction of row spacing and plant population on chickpea yield.
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To look for chickpea plant types which are more competitive with ryegrass.
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To compare different clay spreading and tillage methods for the amelioration of water repellent gravel soils.
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To compare different clay spreading and tillage methods for the amelioration of water repellent gravel soils.