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To determine if the inclusion of Bentonite clay improves crop yields on non-wetting sandy soils and their ability to store more carbon.
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Demonstrate best practice phalaris establishment and management at the PPS/EverGraze site at Mooneys Gap which should provide information to producers to give them confidence to increase phalaris use.
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To build resilience into EP farms by understanding the interactions between soil potential, climate and management.
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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 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.
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To determine the long term effects of 1980 P treatments on soil fertility.
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To determine the effectiveness of biochar on increasing soil carbon and soil stability.
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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.
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The trial purpose was to compare seed dressing and foliar application of Bioprime using granular and liquid fertilisers.
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Trials from over four years are examining different rates and timing of application of Bioprime, a liquid soil amendment which changes soil microbiology. The aim is to relate measured plant growth and yield improvement to changes in microbial populations in the soil around roots, and to show how these changes and different ways of applying nitro… read more
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To examine boosting pulse crop performance on acidic soils.
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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 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 identify the best break crop options for different climate, soil type and biotic stress situations within major cropping regions of the southern low rainfall zone.
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To investigate whether a break crop can be used to manage weeds.
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Farming systems in the low rainfall zone of southern Australia are dominated by cereal production. There is increasing concern about grass weed and soil-borne disease pressure, diminishing soil fertility (particularly nitrogen), and water use efficiency, as a result of continuously cropping cereals. Break crops have a key role to play in address… read more
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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 evaluate the suitability of different pulse species as break crops for different climatic, soil and biotic stress conditions.
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To challenge this notion, and to examine the impacts of break crops on the longer-term financial performance of following wheat crops.
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To identify low risk, profitable break crops for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.
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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 determine the best technique for controlling brome grass in wheat and barley.
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To evaluate a range of herbicide combinations for controlling brome grass in lentils.
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To improve water use efficienes of crops and pasture by reducing the soil constraints that impede root growth.
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The aim is to improve water use efficiencies of crops and pasture by reducing the soil constraints that impede root growth.
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Soil testing for N, P, K and S is a key strategy for monitoring soil fertility of cropping soils as well as for refining fertiliser application strategies for future crops. For this to be successful, the relationship between the soil test and likely response to applied nutrients needs to be well calibrated. Many of these calibrations were develo… read more
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To study the use of VRT through zoning the paddock based on pre-2008 yield monitor maps, and incorporating EM38 and elevation maps.
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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 answer the question: Can incorporation of lime speed up yield response?
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To investigate whether kikuyu improve soil organic carbon levels on Kangaroo Island.
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To test mid infrared analysis to estimate micronutrient concentrations in soils.
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To test whether disturbance seeding systems overcome water repellence in non-wetting gravels and other soil health issues over time.
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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.
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To determine whether soil organic carbon be increased in a continuous cropping system in the low to medium rainfall zone.
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To determine which ameliorant practice is the most effective and economic in remediating subsoil acidity at depth.
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To determine how much green feed tedera can produce on gutless pale sandy soil and to determine if growing tedera can increase the amount of soil organic carbon in pale sandy soil.
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To present actual farming results from a large cropping program in the Condobolin area in central NSW.
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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 investigate the quesion 'Can we reduce our P inputs?’
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To test the effectiveness of various soil ameliorants in establishing irrigated canola
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To demonstrate the ideal depth for optimum canola establishment in local conditions.
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To test the effectiveness of broadcasting canola into wheat stubble as a method of establishing a canola crop
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To discuss canola variety selection for 2007.
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To discuss how to minimise risk while maximising yields.
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To evaluate options to manage risk in canola crops without yield penalty, such as:
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To demonstrate how soil inversion using a mouldbaord plough could be used to incorporate lime into acidic subsoil, overcome soil water repellance and control weeds and to measure its in=mpact and growth.
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To report on a grower experience of bringing canola to Western NSW.
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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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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.
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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.
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To evaluate if there is any difference in deriving management zones from soil or production spatial information and in what situations each of these layers may be useful to help maximise grower investment in PA technologies.
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This project aims to evaluate if there is any difference in deriving management zones from soil or production spatial information and in what situations each of these layers may be useful to help maximise grower investment in PA technologies.
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An objective of this research was to create a water balance model for white clover seed production. In conjunction with the water balance investigation, determination of $return/ML applied to assess water use efficiency would be studied. Overlaying this research was the aim of assessing current, as well as historical, impacts of irrigation manag… read more
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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.
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To examine the effect of increasing inputs for crop varieties representing APW wheat, oats, triticale and a new wheat investigating the prospects for ethanol production from wheat, on profitability for growers on a sandy soil with a highly acidic subsoil in the Liebe Group area.
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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.
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To provide advice on cereal stubble for grain legumes.
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To present the Cereal Variety Disease Guide for 2011.
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To assess the effects of physical (spading), chemical (fertiliser) and biological (compost) treatments on soil organic carbon (SOC) in relation to changes in long term crop yields and quality.
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On the upper Eyre Peninsula (UEP), highly calcareous soils constitute a high proportion (more than 1 million hectares) of soils used for agricultural production (Bertrand et al. 2000, Bertrand et al. 2003). The website ‘Yield Gap Australia’ (http://yieldgapaustralia.com.au/maps/) identifies that the average grain yield on W… read more
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To investigate variety specific responses to applied N.
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To evaluate the impacts of the soil amelioration practices of deep ripping and organic matter inputs on the growth and production of lupin, lentil and chickpea grown on deep sandy soils in the Mallee.
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To determine
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To compare chickpea genotypes for their susceptibility to zinc deficiency and to identify some plant characteristics that are related to zinc efficiency in different genotypes.
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To determine the relative herbicide tolerance of Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To evaluate a range of varieties and advanced PBA breeding lines.
Phytophthora medicaginis, the cause of phytophthora root rot (PRR) of chickpea is endemic and widespread in southern QLD and northern NSW, where it carries over from season to season on infected chickpea volunteers, lucerne, native medics and as resistant structures (oo… read more
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To test the yield response of new varieties and advanced lines of chickpeas to changes in plant populations in southern NSW.
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To look at the yield response of new chickpea varieties to varying row spacing.
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To determine optimum sowing dates and plant densities of Flip 94-090c, Flip 94-509c and Flip 94-508c.
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To test the yield response of new varieties of chickpeas and faba beans to different sowing times in southern
NSW.
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To investigate the effects of soil type and climate on the yield of commercial varieties and advanced breeding lines in Victoria and thereby assist in the selection of superior varieties for farmers in this state.
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To compare a range of inoculant products on chickpea root nodulation, yield and nitrogen (N) fixing ability.
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To evaluate effectiveness of commercially available inoculant products to increase nodulation in chickpea.
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To investigate the response of chickpea to application of macro and micro-nutrients.
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To investigate the response of chickpea to application of macro and micro-nutrients on a sandhill and swale soil.
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To identify nutrient inputs that will improve growth and yield of chickpea on the variable soil types encountered in Mallee paddocks.
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To assess changes in crop productivity as a result of overcoming the chemical, physical and biological constraints of a sandy soil at Cadgee.
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To overcome the chemical, physical and biological constraints of sandy soils, with the aim of achieving long term crop productivity gains greater than 70%.
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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.
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To compare different clay spreading and tillage methods for the amelioration of water repellent soils.
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To assess the impact of the rate of application of clay-rich subsoil to water repellent sand on grain yield and the interaction with incorporation method.
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To determine if the livestock carrying capacity of pastures in the Eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia, including those on mildly saline soil, can be increased by replacing native ryegrass with the Safeguard variety of ryegrass.
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To determine if the livestock carrying capacity of pastures in the eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia, including those on mildly saline soil, can be increased by replacing native ryegrass with the Safeguard variety of ryegrass.
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To investigate whether plant growth affected by sodic subsoils.
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To determine if there are any benefits to be gained from mouldboard ploughing a yellow sandplain soil
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To evaluate the effects of mouldboard ploughing and deep ripping on a yellow sand
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To compare the effects of mouldboard plough, spading and deep ripping on yellow non-wetting sand.
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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 measure the coleoptile lengths of 12 wheat varieties under different soil temperatures according to average soil temperature data in late March and early May at Hart.
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This trial aims to test the effectiveness of various granular and liquid nitrogen products, two nitrogen timings and two nitrogen dressings on yield and grain quality.