Lupins trials

To assess the yield response in barley, canola and lupins to deep ripping over a three year period (2015 – 2017) near Broomehill, WA.

To assess the yield response in barley, canola and lupins to deep ripping over a three year period (2015 – 2017) near Broomehill, WA.

This was the second year of a three-year trial, funded by the South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT), to evaluate the nitrogen fixation capabilities of various legume species commonly grown on Kangaroo Island.

In this second year, the trial was set up to answer the following questions:

• Which of the four legume species had fixed the most nitrogen (N) in the 2016 season?
• How much N did these legume crops fix?
• How much of the N fixed by the legume was utilised by the following crop? Concurrently, how much N was lost through leaching or denitrification?

To examine the potential for crop yield in the northern sandplain systems and explore practices that will allow the potential to be approached.

To demonstrate the benefit of WALAN2141 for croptopping.

To compare the performance of a range of pulse varieties and sowing dates in two contrasting soil types in North Central Victoria.

To compare the performance of a range of pulse varieties and sowing dates in two contrasting soil types in North Central Victoria.

To report on variety descriptions and characteristics.

Multiple trials around the theme of improving and quantifying the benefit of pulses to subsequent crops. This will include comparisons of crop types in 2022, followed by cereal crops in 2023, and techniques to increase biomass (early sowing) and increase N fixation (rhizobia studies) 

To investigating if applying fertiliser according to productivity zones is more profitable than blanket applications of fertiliser across the whole paddock. We aimed to design trials to demonstrate to growers that matching fertiliser inputs to productivity zones will increase whole paddock profitability compared to blanket applications of fertiliser. We also aimed to use off the shelf tools (Silverfox/Sky Plan, Nulogic etc) that growers could access to enable them to follow our procedures to adopt VRT across the whole farm.

• To use farmer scale machinery to evaluate the benefits of adopting zone
management farming on a range of soil types over a three year period;
• To increase the output to input ratio for our farming system; and
• To collaborate with, and add value to research in precision agriculture being
undertaken by CSIRO, the Department.of Agriculture and University of Western
Australia (UWA).

To explore the use of quality legume inoculants to get the most from nitrogen fixation.

To investigate the production, management and profitability of three different pulse crops.

To measure the variation in dry matter production, nitrogen fixation, moisture conservation and grain yield as a result of sowing date, legume species and variety.

The aim was to assess the impacts of delayed sowing and radish infestation on lupin yield. By doing this we can better understand the extra weed control required to make delayed sowing profitable

To discuss benefits and practicalities of individual growers weed management tactics; and to assist others to decide if adopting similar methods would be beneficial on their property.

To report on the Stanton's “current strategy to set up a rotation of liming approximately one fifth of the total land base or about 300ha per year to assist in budgeting".

To compare the performance of crops on raised beds versus strategic field drainage. 

To compare yellow lupin and angustifolius lupin varieties.

To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.

To evaluate new and commonly grown lupin varieties in a low rainfall environment.

To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.

To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.

To evaluate new and existing lupin varieties.

To evaluate new and commonly grown lupin varieties in a low rainfall environment

To evaluate new and existing yellow lupin varieties.

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

The objective of this trial was to evaluate the knockdown efficiency of Spray.Seed with and without common tank mix ‘spikes’, at various rates, on the control of grass and broadleaf weeds including Roundup Ready canola volunteers.

• To determine optimum sowing dates and row spacings for maximising yield of new lupin varieties.

This study serves to identify the crown rot risk to the industry and link with research on rotation impacts and grower practice at a whole-paddock scale.

The trials were designed to showcase a range of pulse varieties and initiate discussions within the MFMG about pulses.

To investigate the potential of biological and organic matter inputs to increase soil water storage, target long-term yield increases and soil improvement

To assess the second year impact of mouldboard ploughing on wetting up of water repellent soil and on lupin establishment and yield.

To evaluate the effectiveness of skip row spacing of lupins in a medium to low rainfall environment

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

• To investigate the impact of row spacing and stubble management on a range of lupin varieties.

To evaluate the grain yield and economic benefit of soil amelioration and controlled traffic practices on a broader range of soil types across the grain growing region of WA.

This trial aims to increase the knowldege and adpotion of deep ripping techniques and controlled traffic to allieviate non-wetting soils, compaction and waterlogging. 

The trial aimed to look at the long term effects of ripping on crop yields by monitoring crop performance of the treated plots for three seasons post-ripping. 

The trial aims to raise awareness amoung growers around the decline in the effectivness of ripping over time, and the risk of re-compaction if controlled traffic is not properly implmented. 

• To assess the impact of rhizobial inoculation on the growth, nitrogen fixation and grain yield of faba beans and lupins in a paddoci with no recent history of growing legumes.
• To determine whether there was any subsequent effect of the inoculation treatment on soil mineral nitrogen and grain yield by the following wheat crop.

To investigate the effects of rates of initial and subsequent applications of manganese on lupin yields grown on Mn deficient soil

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

Sheep are an integral part of low-medium rainfall mixed farming systems across southern Australia and they account for 23% of Australia’s total livestock emissions. Apart from the contribution to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, the energy lost as methane represents a significant inefficiency in sheep production systems. Therefore, maintaining or improving the balance between forage and animal productivity, and methane emissions is likely to be a challenge under a warmer and drier climate. The aim of this trial is to evaluate pasture/forage options to fill in the late-spring, autumn and early winter feed gaps; and to measure comparative animal production, feed quality and methane emissions in response to current and improved sheep feeding strategies.

To examine the long term environmental, biological and economical effects of alternate production systems

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

To evaluate radish control in broadleaf lupins (Albus type).

To report on the use of pulses now and in the future.

To explore pulse varieties in the south-east.

To assess the yield of a range of pulse varieties at several sites.

To assess the best pulse crop varieties for the South East.

To evaluate the most profitable pulse varieties and their associated resistance to diseases faced in the higher rainfall zone of southern Australia.