Faba beans trials

To provide a brief review of manganese toxicity in New South Wales.

To determine critical shoot and seed phosphorus and zinc concentrations for maximum yield in faba bean.

To link financial management to the environmental and production aspects of a variety of farming systems in south eastern Australia.

To provide a gross margin calculation method for 1994.

To discuss grain legume harvesting and way to reduce losses from grain harvesting.

To provide results of a legume herbicide tolerance trial.

To provide information about three crop types (production notes) grown in the Southern Mallee and Northern Wimmera: barley, lentils and faba beans.

To discuss nutrient strategies for 1995.

To evaluate commercial and new pulse (grain legume) cultivars on sandy, calcareous soils, in terms of both the crop performance and its benefit in a rotation.

• To observe the control of legumes and oilseeds of treatments normally used in cerealy crops applied pre-sowing and early post emergent.
• To observe the crop effect of a range of products over a range of crops applied post sowing pre-emergent and applied early post emergent.

To discuss practical disease management issues in puluse crops.

To report on variety descriptions and characteristics.

• To compare a number of herbicides and herbicide mixes to control broadleaf weeds in a variety of legume and canola crops.
• To compare a number of herbicides and herbicide mixes to control broadleaf weeds in a variety of legume and canola crops before sowing another crop.

To determine tolerance, resistance and management strategies for root lesion nematode.

To intriduce Fiesta VF (formerly Acc 483) - a new variety of faba bean for release in 1998.

To determine whether crop growth and yield responses are likely from inoculating legumes on alkaline clay-loams in the Southern Mallee.

To investigate pulse crops for Central Western NSW.

To release high yielding and disease resistant field pea, chickpea, lentil and faba bean varieties which meet required quality standards through selection of varieties specifically suited to the soils and climate of the southern mallee region.

To investigate the adaptability of a range of grain and forage legumes grown in a raised bed system using a controlled traffic regime. 

To discuss abiotic stresses of cool season pulses in Australia.

To conduct a faba bean variety evaluation.

To report on the faba bean variety trial at Hamilton.

To discuss the BCG Farming Systems 2000 season.

To report on a grower experience of growing pulse crops in NSW.

To demonstrate the need for innoculation with rhizobia in a range of crop legumes.

To investigate four different lime rates on two different faba bean varieties.

To discuss optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates.

To find a reliable high yielding and profitable pulse crop for the "high rainfall, cool climate" zone of southern Victoria and one which suits raised beds.

To provide information about the reliability of pulse crops in central NSW.

To investigate row spacing and sowing rates on crop yield and quality.

To compare the performance of current and potential new faba bean varieties under low rainfall Mallee conditions

To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions.

To identify the critical P fertiliser rates for a broad range of crops on different soil types in the southern Mallee and northern Wimmera. This trial was also undertaken in 1999.

To compare the performance of current and potential new faba bean varieties in Victoria.

To determine the optimum time of windrowing for faba beans and compare this practice to direct heading.

To investigate the effectiveness of applying a range of fungicides, both with and without stickers, at two different application times on two varieties of beans - Fiesta VF and Aquadulce.

To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions. 

To raise the awareness of the carry-over or residual effect in alkaline soils of some herbicides on the following crop and show the visual phyto-toxic effects of these herbicides.

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.

To investigate phosphorus use efficiency in six crop types - barley, wheat, canola, lentils, faba beans and field peas. This is the third year of this BCG research.

To discuss disease issues with pulse-on-pulse cropping.

To investigate new faba bean varieties.

To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions. 

This trial was established to look at disease management in beans and peas by the use of different varieties, different row spacings to increase airflow through the canopy and through different fungicide timing regimes. 

This trial was established to look at disease management in beans and peas by the use of different varieties, different row spacings to increase airflow through the canopy and through different fungicide timing regimes.

To look at the carry-over effects and symptoms of Group B and C herbicides on different crop types.

To evaluate the performance of chick peas, faba beans, lupins and field peas under a spring sowing regime. 

To develop and release faba bean varieties that are resistant to both ascochyta blight and chocolate spot, flower early and produce high yields in the drier areas of southern Australia such as the Mallee.

To evaluate a range of new varieties of grain legumes under improved management conditions.