Aims:
Aims:
To capture some of these realities and provide an indication of how the different systems compare in physical and economic terms.
Aims:
The aim of this investigation was to use the cropping systems simulator APSIM to assess the impact of high levels of sodicity chlorine, electrical conductivity and boron on the growth and yield of a wheat crop (cv. Yitpi) grown in the BCG Systems Trial.
Aims:
To produce an Endnote-generated txt file database of research on trace elements in cropping systems of south eastern Australia.
Aims:
To deal with the issue of sustainable agriculture.
Aims:
To present results from the large plot focus farm trials of the Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble in the Riverine Plains region project, which where to
Aims:
Aims:
The project seeks to:
Aims:
The project seeks to:
Aims:
To gain knowledge that will allow the Australian grains industry to maintain productivity by adapting crops and cropping systems to the effects of elevated CO2.
Aims:
Aims:
To develop, evaluate and release improved wheat cultivars to the farming community.
Aims:
To develop, evaluate and release wheat cultivars which maximise economic return to the farming community.
Aims:
To benchmark yield potential across a range of growing environments in the NGR of NSW, over two consecutive seasons, and to quantify the impact of genotype, management and environment on yield.
Aims:
The aim of this research was to benchmark yield potential across a range of growing environments in the NGR over two consecutive seasons, and to quantify the effect genotype (G), management (M) and environment (E) had on yield.
Aims:
Determine the value of nitrogenand fungicide on the profitability of new wheat varieties with different disease resistances in wheat on wheat system.
Aims:
To determine the value of nitrogen and fungicide on the profitability of new wheat varieties with different disease resistances in wheat on wheat system.
Aims:
To evaluate yields and quality of new and existing wheat and barley varieties and their response to N.
Aims:
To evaluate commercially available Foliar applied stubble breakdown products.
Aims:
To assess the role of annual medics as a break crop in a wheat-sheep mixed farming system, by measuring the biomass produced over the growing season followed by the retention of the pasture residue over the summer autumn period, then subsequently assessing the impact of the pasture in the following cereal phase in terms of yield and grain qualit… read more
Aims:
This work estimates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from grain production systems for different regions of NSW. Data used for analysis was based on DPI gross margins and validated at grower forums in Wagga Wagga and Harden in the southern region.
Aims:
To assess the impact of variable rate application of MAP fertilizer.
Aims:
To consider how the system choices in the BCG farming systems trial over the past eight years would play out with likely 2008 prices, and to highlight some of the consistent lessons that can be applied on-farm, to farming systems change in 2008.
Aims:
To assess the efficacy of foliar fungicide application prior to stem extension for control of yellow spot or stagonospora nodorum in wheat in low rainfall zones.
Aims:
To assess the efficacy of foliar fungicide application prior to stem extension for control of yellow spot or stagonospora nodorum in wheat in low rainfall zones.
Aims:
To identify the most profitable rate of nitrogen (N) fertiliser presents a challenge to dryland farmers.
Aims:
In this project we aim to compare the water use efficiency (WUE) and profitability of high versus low input cropping systems
Aims:
To discuss the profitability of farming enterprises.
Aims:
To evaluate the effect of the application of different trace elements and different stubble management on the incidence of yellow leaf spot in a wheat on wheat crop.
Aims:
To present a review of soil fertility and fertiliser requirements of different Australian soils.
Aims:
Aims:
To evaluate the performance of Avadex Xtra on annual ryegrass in a no-till cropping system.
Aims:
To determine the amount and availability of N from wheat stubble under varying stubble management practices over three cropping seasons.
Aims:
To report on bacterial blight in field pea.
Aims:
To investigate the effect of various combinations of nitrogen, phosphorus fertiliser on grain yield.
Aims:
To investigate:
Aims:
To improve grower productivity and industry sustainability through new management techniques and cultivars.
Aims:
Aims:
The GRDC Stubble project aims to improve farm profitability while retaining stubble in farming systems on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). Weed control in stubble retained systems is an issue with reduced herbicide efficacy due to higher stubble loads especially for pre-emergence herbicides. Current farming practices have also changed weed behaviour w… read more
Aims:
The GRDC ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ project aims to improve farm profitability while retaining stubble in farming systems on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). Weed control in stubble retained systems can be compromised where herbicide efficacy is limited due to higher stubble loads, especia… read more
Aims:
To assess the response of six barley varieties treated with five different N rates at sowing.
Aims:
To compare the performance of new and current barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.
Aims:
This research aims to evaluate all new varieties in the NVT program.
Aims:
To assess the benefit of early aphid management and BYDV control through the use of seed applied insecticides
Aims:
Aims:
The aim of better grazing systems in the low rainfall wheat/sheep zone should be to increase pasture returns without negative effects on the cropping phase.
Aims:
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.
Aims:
To assess water repellent soil amelioration options and to determine whether a one-way plough can be used to ameliorate non-wetting sand for much lower cost than mouldboard ploughing or rotary spading.
Aims:
This paper addresses three issues:
Aims:
To determine the long term effects of 1980 P treatments on soil fertility.
Aims:
To investigate the possibility of reducing the inoculum of Fusarium graminearum in wheat stubble by spraying the stubble with spores of a harmless fungus, Trichoderma species, in order to control the disease.
Aims:
To compare different fungicides for control of blackleg.
Aims:
To investigate whether a break crop can be used to manage weeds.
Aims:
To challenge this notion, and to examine the impacts of break crops on the longer-term financial performance of following wheat crops.
Aims:
To identify low-risk, profitable break crops for the mallee regions and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
Aims:
To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
Aims:
To identify low risk, profitable break crops for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
Aims:
To determine the effect of different cropping sequences to continuous cropping.
Aims:
To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
Aims:
To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
Aims:
To develop lucerne cultivars, specifically for the southern Australian cropping districts, that are compatible with existing farming systems as well as being productive and persistent. The breeding program is focusing on improving tolerance to acidic soils, persistent grazing and establishment with companion crops
Aims:
To report on results of a visit by Wayne Hawthorne (esteemed pulse expert from Pulse Australia) to Kangaroo Island.
Aims:
To investigate the germination behaviour and seed dormancy of brome grass populations from the Victorian mallee and provide information on control.
Aims:
To evaluate a range of herbicide combinations for controlling brome grass in lentils.
Aims:
To investigate herbicide control options for brome grass control in direct drilled wheat in the Mallee.
Aims:
To quantify how much brome grass seed was retained on plants at different times of harvest.
Aims:
To improve water use efficienes of crops and pasture by reducing the soil constraints that impede root growth.
Aims:
The aim is to improve water use efficiencies of crops and pasture by reducing the soil constraints that impede root growth.
Aims:
To investigate the threshold temperatures to kill weed seeds, and the temperatures achieved when burning crop residues in various formats to faciliate weed seed control of problematic weeds in low rainfall cropping systems.
Aims:
To investigate whether agronomy can overcome the yield penalty of retained (F2) TT hybrid canola compared with purchased (F1) hybrid seed by using;
Aims:
To investigate whether kikuyu improve soil organic carbon levels on Kangaroo Island.
Aims:
To test whether disturbance seeding systems overcome water repellence in non-wetting gravels and other soil health issues over time.
Aims:
To compare the productivity and profitability of cropping in the presence of a background of herbicide resistant ryegrass, and to assess the implications of various low or high input grass control options applied to wheat and break crops on production costs and ryegrass management.
Aims:
To determine whether soil organic carbon be increased in a continuous cropping system in the low to medium rainfall zone.
Aims:
To present actual farming results from a large cropping program in the Condobolin area in central NSW.
Aims:
To investigate the quesion 'Can we reduce our P inputs?’
Aims:
To study the effect of a 1994 canola stubble on a subsequent wheat cop, and was compared against a 1994 chickpea stubble.
Aims:
to compare the performance of commercial hybrid seed against farmer retained (F1) seed using conventional, triazine and imidazalinone tolerant varieties.
Aims:
To assess the effect of blackleg on canola crops and varieties in the south east of SA.
Aims:
To assess the efficacy of foliar, on-seed and on-fertiliser commercially available fungicides on blackleg control in retained stubble systems.
Aims:
To test the effectiveness of broadcasting canola into wheat stubble as a method of establishing a canola crop
Aims:
To demonstrate whether current seeder set ups within the region are capable of successfully sowing canola into heavy stubble.
Aims:
To report on a grower experience of growing canola in the Central West.
Aims:
To evaluate options to manage risk in canola crops without yield penalty, such as:
Aims:
To demonstrate the relative performances of the three canola options available to Western Australian growers
Aims:
To control weeds without compromising crop yield.
Aims:
To evaluate commercially available canola varieties managed under their different technology system recommended practices.
Aims:
To report on a grower experience of bringing canola to Western NSW.
Aims:
To assess the yield of a range of canola varieties
Aims:
To compare a number of commercially available varieties representing the different herbicide systems.
Aims:
To compare a number of commercially available varieties representing the different herbicide systems.
Aims:
To test 8 TT varieties of hybrid and open pollinated canola.
Aims:
The aim of these experiments is to examine how tillage intensity influences allocation and stabilisation (storage) of newly assimilated C in canola crop-soil and wheat crop-soil systems at Wagga Wagga and Condobolin.
Aims:
The Upper North Farming systems group is involved in several Carbon Farming projects, which are trying to identify areas which have the greatest potential for soil carbon sequestration or reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Aims:
To compare four locally grown wheat varieties at district practice and high seeding rates to assess their influence on reducing the impact of ryegrass in the whole farming system.
Aims:
To investigate the impact that stubble treatments (burning, cultivation, harrowed/flattened or standing stubble) imposed towards the end of the fallow have on the yield of winter crops.
Aims:
To provide advice on cereal stubble for grain legumes.
Aims:
To investigate the potential of new chickpea and lentil varieties in the high rainfall zone of Victoria.
Aims:
To determine the optimum disease management strategy for Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
Aims:
To report on chickpea sowing time x row space x plant density at Wimmera (Minyip),Victoria.