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This trial aimed to test mid-row banding of nitrogen in wheat after rice, in the presence and absence of waterlogging.
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This report presents the results of a national field survey of herbicide residues in 40 cropping soils before sowing and pre-emergent herbicide application in 2015. It looks at the relevance of these residues to soil biological processes and crop health with a focus on those herbicides most frequently detected.
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To evaluate commercially available forage cereal varieties, comparing their feed value and suitability for grazing or grain production in low rainfall Mallee and Wimmera environments.
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To evaluate commercially available forage cereal varieties, comparing their feed value and suitability for grazing or grain production in low rainfall Mallee and Wimmera environments.
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The Australian Soybean Breeding Program develops varieties for diverse production environments across a 3000 km range from the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland (Latitude 17.2661°S, Longitude 145.4859°E) to the Riverina in southern New South Wales (Latitude 29.7503°S, Longitude 120.5530°E).
The program focuses on strateg… read more
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The Australian Soybean Breeding Program develops varieties for diverse production environments across a 3000 km range from the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland (Latitude 17.2661°S, Longitude 145.4859°E) to the Riverina in southern New South Wales (Latitude 29.7503°S, Longitude 120.5530°E). T
he program focuses on strate… read more
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To present a summary of data from multi-season replicated evaluations and on-farm experiments of Richmond, a new variety for production in northern New South Wales.
The Australian Soybean Breeding Program develops varieties for diverse production
environments across a 3000 km range from the Atherton Tablelands in far north Que… read more
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To develop variety specific agronomy packages for the major winter crops in southern NSW with emphasis on agronomic practices that are likely to have a genotype x environment interaction.
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To report on new barley varieties and management.
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To evaluate the efficacy of new actives in disease control and yield benefits in low (Minnipa, upper Eyre Peninsula) and medium (Hart, Mid-North) rainfall zones in South Australia
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To evaluate the efficacy of new actives in disease control and yield benefits in low (Minnipa, upper Eyre Peninsula) and medium (Hart, Mid-North) rainfall zones in South Australia
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To determine if new and existing barley varieties respond differently to varied nitrogen rates applied at sowing
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To determine whether adding extra nitrogen (N) at GS31 will bring benefits above the current standard practice of only applying nitrogen at or near sowing in three different Eyre Peninsula (EP) environments.
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To determine the amount of N contributed by a faba bean crop in the following season.
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To strengthen our knowledge on seasonal changes in the (1) biological value of stubble (2) mineralisation: immobilisation balance (ratio) and (3) the direct supply of N from stubble to crops as influenced by stubble management.
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To report on nitrogen inputs from pasture legumes in a cropping rotation.
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This trial is investigating the uptake by wheat of different nitrogen fertilisers.
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To assess the impact of applying additional Nitrogen at different rates and timings on the grain yield of Bolac wheat.
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To assess the impact of applying additional nitrogen at different rates and timings on grain yield of wheat
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To test the applicability of the South Australian 'Slide rule' type of arrangement whereby nitrogen requirement of a cereal crop can be quickly estimated before sowing in the Victorian southern Mallee and northern Wimmera.
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To test the nitrogen response in different electromagnetic (EM) zones of the paddock.
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To determine the effect of N rate on the yield and grain quality of eight popular bread wheat varieties at Coolah in central NSW in 2015.
Nitrogen (N) is the nutrient most required by wheat. It is essential for growth and development, and yield and grain protein levels. In recent seasons in Central West NSW there has been a significa… read more
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To determine the effect of N rate on the yield and grain quality of eight popular bread wheat varieties at Gilgandra in central NSW in 2015.
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To determine the effect of N application and sowing time on the yield and grain quality of eight popular bread wheat varieties at Trangie in central NSW in 2015.
Nitrogen (N) is the nutrient wheat most needs for growth, development and yield. In recent seasons in Central West NSW there has been a significant trend towards above average… read more
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To investigate nitrogen response of six wheat and four barley varieties across two sowing dates.
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To determine the agronomic effectiveness of different nitrogen fertiliser sources and placements in wheat.
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To assess a number of different nitrogen timings and nitrogen products.
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To evaluate the influence of different rates and timings of 46 %N prilled urea applied N prior to later applications of liquid N applied as fertigation applied in grain maize.
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To evaluate nitrogen use efficiency in grain maize under different rates and of applied N fertiliser applied at sowing and at V6 as urea (46% N).
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To evaluate nitrogen use efficiency in grain maize under different rates and of applied N fertiliser applied as pre drill urea (46% N) prior to fertigation with an overhead lateral.
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To determine the effect of sowing rate, nitrogen fertiliser rate and timing on wheat and barley crop establishment, tiller production, head counts at harvest, grain yield and grain quality.
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To measure and quantify N2O emissions from wheat grown in rotation with canola, pulses and legume pastures at two sites in low and medium/high rainfall farming systems of the Eyre Peninsula, while assessing best management practices that local farmers can adopt to reduce the risk of N2O losses and ultimately improve the paddock’s crop producti… read more
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Agricultural soils are the main source of emission of the greenhouse gas (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere. N2O is a potent GHG which lasts in the atmosphere for 114 years and has a global warming potential of approximately 300 times greater than that of carbon dioxide over a 100 year timescale. Agriculture accounts for 16% of Australi… read more
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To measure and quantify N2O emissions from wheat grown in rotation with canola, pulses and legume pastures at two sites in low and medium/high rainfall farming systems of the Eyre Peninsula, while assessing best management practices that local farmers can adopt to reduce the risk of N2O losses and ultimately improve the paddock’s crop producti… read more
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Agricultural soils are the main source of emission of the greenhouse gas (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere. N2O is a potent GHG which lasts in the atmosphere for 114 years and has a global warming potential of approximately 300 times greater than that of carbon dioxide over a 100 year timescale. Agriculture accounts for 16% of Australi… read more
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To investigate options for no-till sowing in stony soils.
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To conduct a noodle wheat agronomy demonstration.
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To find out what the noodle quality of wheat from this site is and how it compares to the noodle wheat grown in the Wimmera.
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Can systems performance be improved by modifying farming systems in the northern grains region? | In Goondiwindi: (i) What are the trends that are expected in our farming systems? and (ii) How will these changes impact on the performance and status of our farming systems?
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To report on the outcomes of a series of faba bean variety × density experiments across northern NSW.
The 2015 season was characterised by severe frost events, episodic cold weather during flowering and terminal drought during grain filling. These seasonal conditions severely affected crop performance, reducing the poten… read more
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To use machinery guidance to enable crops to be grown on wide row-spacings, with crops sown into the space between rows in the next yera.
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To report on the outcomes of the nutrition experiments across northern NSW.
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To to establish if;
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To conduct a barley variety trial at Nyngan.
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To continue to build information regarding ideal time of sowing canola.
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To report on Nyngan CWFS site results.
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Growers in medium to low rainfall regions are keen to grow oats as a break crop, either for hay or as a profitable grain crop; however, there is a need to identify management inputs and varieties that consistently meet quality specifications. Currently there is considerable interest in the high yielding milling oat varieties Bannister and Willia… read more
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To test on-row or inter-row seeding with and without a pre-emergent herbicide package of trifluralin + metribuzin
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Onion weed (Asphodelus fistulosusis) is a significant pest of crops and pastures on many soil types on upper EP. Onion weed that germinates in the pasture phase often results in thick stands of large plants that require repeated herbicide application and/or cultivation to control prior to a crop phase. Cultivation prior to sowing is a widespread… read more
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To investigate the optimum fertiliser placement when sowing wheat.
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To investigate how different summer crops influence soil moisture throughout their growing seasons and in the subsequent wheat crop
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To compare grain yields of early sown wheat with grazed (cut) wheat sown at the same time and that sown at a more traditional time, May. A further aim was to compare a commercial plant density for dual purpose and grain‐only production with reduced rates comparable to that used for early sowing in the UK.
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To determine the phenological response (flowering time) to sowing time for a range of barley varieties.
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To investigate whether Winter varieties bred for NSW can be grown successfully in SA.
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To investigate time of sowing for individual wheat cultivars with different maturities.
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To investigate optimum time of sowing for individual wheat cultivars with different maturities
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To assess the optimum barley fungicide strategy for the different climatic regions represented in the project and to determine whether the likelihood of fungicide response can be linked to specific timings, disease and plant available water.
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To evaluate the response to sowing time of 32 current and new wheat varieties within the central west region of NSW.
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To determine the optimum combination of sowing date, nitrogen management and variety for growth, grain yield and oil concentration in Canola.
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To assess a range of commercial rhizobia inoculant products, application strategies and sowing times to provide growers with recommendations that ensures adequate nodulation and nitrogen fixation in dry sown crops.
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The aim of this series of experiments was to deterimine if management of EGA Wedgetail should be different to that of spring wheats sown in May, and if grown for grain only or dual purpose use.
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To discuss optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates.
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1. To evaluate the performance of commercial seeders in establishing canola and lentils by conducting a survey of paddocks.
2. To determine the effect of sowing density, row spacing and seeder type on plant establishment in canola and lentils and subsequent grain yield.
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In 2018, field experiments were conducted across ten sites in the northern grains region in Central and Southern Queensland, and
northern, central and southern New South Wales to determine optimal grain yield potential of wheat genotypes.
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To evaluate five wheat varieties sown at three different times and assess how each one responds.
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To test some of the commercial practices used in irrigated cotton growing. In the 2014–15 summer cropping season, three experiments were conducted at commercial farms located near Emerald (Qld), Moree (NSW), and Gunnedah (NSW).
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To investigate the response of wheat to phosphorus fertiliser grown on an alkaline crumbly clay soil type.
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To investigate responses to phosphorus and potassium in wheat.
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To report on paddock yield and seeding depth optimisation.
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To demonstrate that is possible to grow a viable winter crop and still maintain a productive lucerne stand over summer.
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To evaluate species and pasture phase systems (including hard seeded annuals) for light sand-plain soils (with low pH and low available soil water) in crop-based rotations.
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To improve the understanding of the nitrogen contributions from pasture legumes to wheat under different management conditions.
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To examine the effect of seed size at sowing, at a fixed population, on grain yield and seed size distribution at harvest.
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Perennial pastures are being investigated for their potential fit in the Wimmera Mallee region.
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To assess the potential of non-commercial later maturing canola lines for the HRZ of southern Australia.
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To evaluate the performance of different drill openers at a range or row spacings in canola following wheat to improve water use efficiency (WUE) in no-till cropping and stubble retention systems in spatially and temporally variable conditions in the Riverine Plains.
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To evaluate the performance of different drill openers at a range or row spacings for second wheat (wheat on wheat) following canola to improve water use efficiency (WUE) in no-till cropping and stubble retention systems in spatially and temporally variable conditions in the Riverine Plains.
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This experiment examined the phenology of 31 commercial varieties and newly released lines sown on two sowing dates at Wagga Wagga, NSW in 2019.
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To answer the question 'How much P should I apply in 2007?'
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To investigate the possible interaction between time of sowing and the phosphorus requirement of the crop at two locations (Birchip and Murtoa).
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To provide advice on strategies for winter crops for 1997.
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To provide advice on planning for recovery in 1995.
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This experiment was conducted at the NSW DPI Leeton Field Station to test the grain yield and lodging response of three commercial varieties and an unreleased line (N005A-80) to four targeted sowing densities.
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The aim of this trial was to assess the viability of polymer coated canola seed.
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To demonstrate if summer crops and wheat can be grown successfully when sown in winter and covered in biodegradable polymer films.
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To investigate the potential efficacy of pre-emergent herbicides applied post sowing on ryegrass control. It aims to measure if the period of residual ryegrass control can be extended and also if in-row ryegrass control can be improved.
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To evaluate the efficacy of pre-emergent herbicides applied post sowing on ryegrass control and crop safety in wheat with the aim of
a) increasing residual control,
b) improving in-row control and
c) preventing onset of trifluralin resistance.
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To find herbicide options that may be safe to use in saltland pasture systems wherein a farmer can maintain the productive capacity of his saltland by controlling his weeds. Trials also aim to explore weed control options during saltbush germination.
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To investigate post sowing pre-emergent chemical control of ryegrass.
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To compare potassium (K) strategies over 3 years.