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To compare the yield, oil content and weed control of the CLEARFIELD* Production System (CL*) for Canola and TT canola systems.
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To compare the yield and weed control of CLEARFIELD* Production System (CL*) and conventional wheat systems.
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Trials were implemented to compare break crop productivity and profitability on major soil types in the northern South Australian Mallee. This information will help farmers in this region to select the most appropriate break crop for their farming system.
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Trials were implemented to compare break crop productivity and profitability on major soil types in the northern South Australian Mallee. This information will help farmers in this region to select the most appropriate break crop for their farming system.
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To compare break crop productivity and profitability on major soil types in the northern South Australian Mallee.
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To compare the productivity and relative profitability of various low input/low risk cropping options with alternative high input/high risk, but potentially higher return crops.
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This research determines to assess the benefits (economic and environmental) of a green manure phase under current cropping systems in areas with a poor nutritional status.
To evaluate crop types and incorporation techniques to rejuvenate poor performing soils using a green manure phase, as well as to identify and evaluate the potent… read more
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To capture how different pasture systems are performing.
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To compare the effect of different stubble treatments on crop establishment, growth, grain yield and quality over a three year timeframe.
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To assess the RR TT IT herbicide systems for weed control and grain production and compare grain values produced.
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To assess the RR TT IT herbicide systems for weed control and grain production and compare grain values produced.
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To assess the RR TT IT herbicide systems for weed control and grain production and compare grain values produced.
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To compare the competitive nature of wheat and barley sown at different row spacing and seeding rates on grass weed competition.
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To compare the competitive nature of wheat and barley sown at different row spacing and seeding rates on grass weed competition.
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To identify if twin row seeding systems and adjusting seeding rate will; 1)Increase the competitive ability of wheat in weedy situations and reduce weed seed set, 2)Increase the profitability of wheat production through increased yield and reduced costs of inputs.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect available soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect available soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.
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To determine if various farm management techniques improve the storage of out-of-season rainfall and whether this leads to improvements in crop growth and/or yield.
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To determine if various farm management techniques improve the storage of out-of-season rainfall and whether this leads to improvements in crop growth and/or yield.
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To determine if various farm management techniques improve the storage of out-of-season rainfall and whether this leads to improvements in crop growth and/or yield.
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To determine if various farm management techniques improve the storage of out-of-season rainfall and whether this leads to improvements in yield.
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To compare the weaknesses and strengths of common non-ownership options and proposes an alternative to the norm.
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To answer the question - continuous cropping - is it sustainable?
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To improve farmer access to quality information relating to soil health
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To discuss a closely-monitored paddock in the Charlton district that has been in wheat for the last seven years.
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To quantify the contribution of sunflower leaves to yield and oil quality through the application of twelve leaf defoliation treatments.
Sunflowers are generally considered a minor crop in the NSW northern grains region. However, they play an important role in providing a broadleaf summer crop rotation option. An individual sunflower p… read more
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To quantify the contribution of different sunflower leaves to yield and oil quality by applying 12 leaf defoliation treatments.
Sunflowers are generally considered a minor crop in the northern grains region. However, they play an important role in providing a broadleaf summer crop rotation option. An individual sunflower plant produces… read more
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To test the impact of sheep grazing no-till and zero-till farming systems on soil conditions and crop yields.
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To compare crop emergence between treatments.
To compare programs of seed and foliar fungicides for BL control.
To compare yield and $ROI between Canola disease programs.
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To compare the effect of different pre-emergent herbicides and 2 seeding systems on wheat establishment and ryegrass control.
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To present information about controlled traffic farming.
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Soil compaction affects soil aeration and gas diffusivity, and thus has a major impact on the release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from fertilised soils. Controlled traffic farming (CTF) systems reduce the area of compacted soil by confining all field traffic to permanent traffic lanes, and a pilot trial at one long-term CTF site provided evid… read more
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Copper, Zinc and nitrogen required for maximum grain yield of wheat following clover ley at Esperance Plain Research Station.
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Copper, Zinc and nitrogen required for maximum grain yield of wheat following clover ley at Wongan hills Station.
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To report on activities and results from the core site in 2005.
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To investigate the management, profitability and sustainability of four farming systems.
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To assess the financial consequences of changing farming systems and inputs, specifically investigating the impact of changing break crop type and reduced fertiliser inputs on subsequent wheat yields and longer term profitability.
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To discuss the effects of drought and other pressures upon farming families in the Wimmera Southern Mallee region.
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To discuss the critical growth stages for maintaining sound nutrition of crops on Upper EP.
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to produce sustainable management guidelines to control pests, weeds and diseases while retaining stubble to maintain or improve soil health, and reduce exposure to wind erosion. The major outcome to be achieved is increased knowledge … read more
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to produce sustainable management guidelines to control pests, weeds and diseases while retaining stubble to maintain or improve soil health, and reduce exposure to wind erosion. The major outcome to be achieved is increased knowledge … read more
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Issue EP farmers identified as a problem with stubble retained systems was sowing into non-wetting sands and the resulting uneven germination. The trial at Murlong (near Lock) was established in 2013 to compare how crop establishment is affected by time of sowing, sowing rate, and seed position and depth on a non-wetting sand.
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The GRDC project ‘Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble - upper Eyre Peninsula’ aims to produce sustainable management guidelines to control pests, weeds and diseases while retaining stubble to maintain or improve soil health, and reduce exposure to wind erosion. The major outcome to be achieved is increased knowledge … read more
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To compare the performance of wheat crops grown using normal farming practices and inputs, to those grown with 2 x 250 mL/ha applications of the biological stimulant TM21 in addition to the normal farming practices and inputs.
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To provide some suggestions as additional hints in coping with cropping after drought.
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To determine the influence of break sequences (2011-2012) followed by consecutive wheat crops (2013-2014) on soil water, nitrogen, brome grass populations and profitability.
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This paper reports results from previous reserach and some recent findings on inputs on fixed N2 by different legumes routinely measured. The project examines the effect of legumes or canola break crops on subsequent cereal productivity in cereal-dominated cropping systems.
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The project aims to overcome some of the difficulties with double cropping systems (growing a winter and summer crop following one another) and to provide the opportunity for growers to capitalise on their investment in irrigated agriculture. This project considers the issues of herbicide residues; irrigation layouts and management; stubble mana… read more
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To achieve quantitative and measurable improvements in crop production, farm profitability and resource condition by appropriate crop sequencing within five years.
To facilitate capacity building and empowerment of the agricultural community across the region to participate in RD&E, access information and training and benefit from the … read more
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To answer three key questions:
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The project aimed to answer three key questions:
1. Can a break crop be as profitable as a cereal?
2. Are crop sequences including break crops more profitable than continuous wheat? and
3. What effects do break crops have on soil nitrogen availability?
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To compare the performance of 3 seeding systems and 2 nutrition strategies. This is a rotation trial to assess the longer term effects of seeding systems and higher fertiliser input systems.
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To compare the performance of 3 seeding systems and 2 nutrition strategies. This is a rotation trial to assess the longer term effects of seeding systems and higher fertiliser input systems.
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To compare the performance of 3 seeding systems and 2 nutrition strategies. This is a rotation trial to assess the longer term effects of seeding systems and higher fertiliser input systems.
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To compare the performance of 3 seeding systems and 2 nutrition strategies. This is a rotation trial (funded by SAGIT) to assess the longer term effects of seeding systems and higher fertiliser input systems.
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The aim of the experiment was to examine the effect of crown rot on yield in 12 bread wheats, one durum wheat and five barley varieties of differing tolerance levels in southern NSW (sNSW).
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The purpose of this trial is to determine if there are benefits from applications of a biological based product developed by Basic Environmental Systems and Technology (B.E.S.T) namely ‘Customer Formulated Fertiliser’ (CFF).
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The purpose of this trial is to determine if there are benefits from applications of a biological based product developed by Basic Environmental Systems and Technology (B.E.S.T) namely ‘Customer Formulated Fertiliser’ (CFF).
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To examine the strengths and weaknesses of four farming systems and document their relative profitability and sustainability.
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This project is being carried out in the Upper South-East region to assess various Decision Support Tools and the role that they can play in improving the uptake of conservation tillage, and more efficient nitrogen management. It aims to look at 2 different “Decision Support Tools”; Yield Prophet – a computer model, and Soil Moisture p… read more
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To determine the benefits of deep ripping and the implications for N fertiliser.
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To compare the performance of new and current barley varieties at two different harvest times and to determine if delaying harvest compromises yield and grain quality.
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This site was designed to demonstrate the practical implications of implementing Controlled Traffic and
Precision Agriculture practices
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To demonstrate inter-row pasture options for the low rainfall zone.
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To compare the impact and profitability of the inclusion of broadleaved break crops in paddock rotations in the Northern Victorian Mallee.
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Agronomic constraints threaten the sustainability of intensive cereal no-till cropping systems. Local research has shown these constraints can be managed by diversifying rotations with break crops, however as this research was conducted at only one site, farmers wanted to know whether the same results would be observed on a commercial scale at a… read more
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Agronomic constraints threaten the sustainability of intensive cereal no-till cropping systems. Local research has shown these constraints can be managed by diversifying rotations with break crops, however as this research was conducted at only one site, farmers wanted to know whether the same results would be observed on a commercial scale at a… read more
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Agronomic constraints threaten the sustainability of intensive cereal no-till cropping systems. Local research has shown these constraints can be managed by diversifying rotations with break crops, however as this research was conducted at only one site, farmers wanted to know whether the same results would be observed on a commercial scale at a… read more
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Agronomic constraints threaten the sustainability of intensive cereal no-till cropping systems. Local research has shown these constraints can be managed by diversifying rotations with break crops, however as this research was conducted at only one site, farmers wanted to know whether the same results would be observed on a commercial scale at a… read more
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To compare three direct drill seeders for wheat crop establishment; crop yield; and incorporation efficiency of group D herbicides.
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To investigate some practical options for direct drilling wheat into wheat stubbles in the Mallee.
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To develop agronomic packages and seeding technology solutions which can allow for increased stubble retention practices, thereby reducing the dependence on burning.
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To help farmers to gain knowledge about alternate stubble management options.
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This demonstration was aimed at helping farmers to gain knowledge about alternate stubble management options.
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The key aims of this project have been to develop agronomic guidelines and seeding technology solutions to allow for increased stubble retention practices, thereby reducing the dependence on burning.
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These trials evaluated the effects sowing time and sowing rate on grain yield of field pea, faba bean, lupin and chickpea at Yalla-Y-Poora.
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To identify the best rotation (or system) for the region, that will also prevent the degradation or loss of soil chemical, physical and biological characteristics.
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The aim of this work is to understand the impact of stubble retention on in-canopy temperatures and associated risk of frost in cropping environments with high yields and high stubble loads.
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To compare a range of starter fertiliser and topdress options for pasture production.
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To compare the performance of disc and knife-point seeding at two different sowing times (early and late)
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To assess the differences between disc and tyne seeding systems in commercial practice.
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To assess the differences between disc and tyne seeding systems in commercial practice.
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To assess the differences between disc and tyne seeding systems in commercial practice.
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To understand growth patterns of yellow leaf spot (YLS) (Pyrenophora tritici-repentis) on wheat and net form net blotch (NFNB) (Pyrenophora teres f teres) on barley in relation to a changing farming environment.
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To evaluate and determine the profitability of different strategies of disease management.
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