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To investigate improvements for pre-emergent herbicide spray coverage in stubble retention systems.
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This trial is conducted to investigate the value of nitrogen on the profitability of new wheat varieties in early and late sowings in fallow/wheat system at Wongan Hills
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To test the effects of subsoil remediation on crop water use and yield.
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To test the effects of subsoil remediation on crop water use and yield.
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To assess the performance of wheat following either peas, wheat or barley.
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To use a thick layer of cereal straw maintained within the growing season to focus on reducing the amount of moisture lost to soil evaporation.
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To use a thick layer of cereal straw maintained within the growing season to focus on reducing the amount of moisture lost to soil evaporation.
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To determine the value of pasture legumes grown in rotation with crops at Streatham, Gnarwarre and Hamilton
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To identify those alternative pasture legume spcies that, when sown in rotation with crops, have the capaicty to improve crop plant productivity in the high rainfall zone of southern Australia.
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To investigate second adaptive traits (their yield, how to measure them and how to implement them into the breeding program) for grain legume drought tolerance.
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To increase the yield and reliability of field pea under water deficit and is a major pre-breeding target of Pulse Breeding
Australia.
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Evaluate Lokomotive as an in season foliar potassium source for correcting potassium deficiency and compare to muriate of potash (MOP).
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To investigate in-crop nitrogen timing and product choice for wheat.
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To answer the question 'Can we manage inputs in-crop that will yield well in a good season whilst also maintaining yields and keeping costs down in poorer seasons?'.
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To estimate in-crop risk management using the Yield Prophet.
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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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To evaluate the effect of crop stubble management and seeding system on pre-emergent herbicide behaviour and crop safety.
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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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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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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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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.
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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.
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The key aims of this project have been to develop agronomic guidelines and seeding technology solutions which can allow for increased stubble retention practices, thereby reducing the dependence on burning.
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The key aims of this project have been to develop agronomic guidelines and seeding technology solutions which can allow for increased stubble retention practices, thereby reducing the dependence on burning.
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To understand the impact of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling on disease suppression.
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To understand the impact of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling on disease suppression.
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To test the concept of variations in crop nitrogen dynamics in relation to soil compaction during the 2014 season.
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To test the concept of variations in crop nitrogen dynamics in relation to soil compaction during the 2014 season.
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To test the concept of variations in crop nitrogen dynamics in relation to soil compaction during the 2014 season.
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To investigate the benefits of specialty phosphorus products and liquid phosphorus
options in cereals
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To evaluate the performance of Barley varieties under irrigated conditions
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To assess the effectiveness of plant growth regulators on irrigated canola.
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To economically grow irrigated durum wheat
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To evaluate the potential to grow chickpeas and lentils under irrigated conditions
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To evaluate specially formulated biodegradable soil wetters ability to improve crop establishment and yields in hydrophobic (non-wetting) soils.
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Determine if there are economic and agronomic advantages with using soil ‘wetters’ at seeding to improve crop emergence of wheat (Arrino) in hydrophobic soils (non-wetting).
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To investigate whether continuous wheat is viable.
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To test the hypothesis that over time in controlled traffic farming systems the repeated uneven spreading of header residue back over the tram track width would result in changed soil conditions that would ultimately lead to different “management zones” along the tram track.
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To identify any possible impacts on crop growth in controlled traffic systems where the header residue maybe inconsistently spread back across the tram track width over a number of seasons.
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To see if disease suppression can be stimulated by increasing organic matter (i.e. carbon) inputs into farming systems under local conditions.
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To determine the competitiveness of current and new barley varieties so management packages can be developed for growers to use.
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To determine whether maintaining stubble cover in low rainfall environments increases summer moisture conservation, and, to establish the minimum stubble quantity or threshold necessary to ensure maximum moisture conservation over the summer.
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To discuss the common questions of are: ‘Is this dry spell a permanent feature? Is it just due to chance? Is it a periodic event?’
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To determine whether highly zinc responsive crops such as faba beans and lentils would respond to additional zinc when grown on a paddock which has had a good zinc history.
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To evaluate a number of winter wheat and shorter season white milling wheat varieties when sown later than the recommended sowing time.
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This trial was used to determine the efficacy and yield response of JumpStart as a seed coat on spring sown barley and to measure any residual plant available phosphorus for the following crop.
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To demonstrate the effect of applying K-Komplex liquid fertiliser to a wheat crop.
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To test eight commonly grown TT canola varieties.
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To demonstrate yield of various forage crop varieties.
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To investigate the effect of various fallow management treatments on crop establishment and yield, weed and pest management and nitrogen management in retained stubble systems in a medium rainfall zone in the South-East of South Australia.
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To investigate the effectiveness of the use of different herbicides and spraying regimes prior to sowing in controlling annual ryegrass and to increase grower awareness of rotating the various knockdown options pre-sowing.
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To measure the variation of extractable (labile) P in the crop row and inter row following drought affected cereals in 2006 & to investigate the removal of P in relation to yield.
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To assess the impact of mouldboard ploughing and clay spreading on soil water repellence and grain yield.
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To measure increases in grain protein in various barley varieties at flowering with different amounts of applied nitrogen.