Lupins trials

A three-year research trial aims to investigate the impact of precision lime application rate, placement and product on cropping land and will evaluate cost effective ways to ameliorate subsoil acidity.

To report on Simon Veitch's liming program.

To investigate the idea of Pasture Cropping (PC), which involves seeding a crop into an existing summer-active pasture stand without killing the pasture.

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".

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 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.

To evaluate improved lupin varieties for the Victorian Mallee.

The aim of this trial was to exaluate and develop improved lupin varieties for the Victorian Mallee.

To determine the ways in which different crop types influence available soil P and the P requirements of subsequently sown cereals

To provide some suggestions as additional hints in coping with cropping after drought.

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

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

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 provide a gross margin calculation method for 1994.

• 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 trial a number of herbicide treatments applied to field peas, chickpeas, lentils and lupins to determine effective weed control and their effects on the crops.

To provide a calendar as a guide to insect pests that could be expected during each of hte major crop and pasture growing phases.

To provide results of a legume herbicide tolerance trial.

To provide quick and easy ways to obtain reliable information in the field for use in the management of legume nitrogen.

To assess the impact of rhizobial inoculation on the performance of four different legumes: chickpeas, lentils, faba beans and peas in the Victorian Wimmera.

To determine the relationship between alternative break crops and root disease.

To discuss nutrient strategies for 1995.

To assess the soil and fertiliser (external) P requirements of different crop types in low phosphorus environments.

To discuss practical disease management issues in puluse crops.

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

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

To report on variety descriptions and characteristics.

To compare break crop productivity and profitability on major soil types in the northern South Australian Mallee.
 

To report on 2003 crop monitoring.

To assess the value and place of grain legumes in a wheat rotation.

To develop cropping rotations to include pulse crops.

To evaluate the pulse crop options suitable for the district not only in terms of their profitability but in terms of their contribution to the performance of subsequent wheat crops.

To investigate the management, sustainability and profitability of a range of farming systems. 

To discuss the question, 'Should you feed in a drought?'

To focus on maintaining profitable retained stubble systems rather than investigating agronomic and economic benefits of stubble retention.

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

To investigate the effects of sowing date on the yield of Lupins.

To investigate the yield potential of several pulse crops. 

To investigate pulse crops for Central Western NSW.

To detemine how well alternative pulse crops grow in the district and to calculate the associated gross margins to determine their profitability.

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

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

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

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

In these trials Corrigin Farm Improvement Group aimed to test the benefits of growing crops on chemical fallowed soil. The trials specifically compared which crop species were most profitable under a chemical fallowing regime. In season 2013 barley was most profitable and in 2014 albus lupins were the most profitable crop grown on chemical fallow.

This project was designed to test the relative benefit of chemical fallow with a range of different crop types. The trials compared different crop types on chemical fallow with the aim to identify which crop is likely to produce the highest return. The trials was a joint effort with Pulse Australia with the aim also to demonstrate and test pulse species in the Corrigin district.

The aim of this project is for the Corrigin Farm Improvement Group (CFIG) to compare the profitability of a range of crop rotations, including chemical fallowing, on a medium textured, loamy soil type east of Corrigin. Gross returns are assessed both on an annual basis and on an accumulative multi-year basis.

This project was designed to test the relative benefit of chemical fallow with a range of different crop types. The trial compared different crop types on chemical fallow with the aim to identify which crop is likely to produce the highest return. The project also aims to investigate the profitability of different rotations over multiple years which include both chemical fallows and continuous crop.