Oats trials

To compares grain yields and quality of milling oats, durum wheat, bread and feed wheats and feed and malt barley varieties and the subsequent gross margin when all crops are grown side by side on the Wolseley flats.

To compare grain yields and quality of milling oats, durum wheat, bread wheats and feed and malt barley and the subsequent gross
margin when all crops are grown side by side on the Wolseley flats.

The challenge aimed to compare the grain yields and quality of milling oats, durum wheat, AH and APW wheat and feed and malt barley varieties.

Farmers in the Kimba area have been producing oaten hay for export for several years. The industry has been expanding, with dedicated storage facilities established in recent years on the outskirts of Kimba. To maximise production and quality, the Buckleboo Farm Improvement Group wanted to identify the best current oaten hay variety for the Kimba area.

To identify the current best oaten hay variety for the Kimba area to maximise production and quality.

To satisfy the questions of local farmers.

• Can you sustainably continuously crop this land?
• Will we get herbicide resistant weeds with continuous cropping?
• Which crop rotations are the most profitable?
• What is happening to nitrogen in the rotations?
• What impact does continuous cropping have on soil chemistry and soil water levels?

To investigate options for broadleaf weed and grass control in oats.

To evaluate the early biomass production, hay and grain yield of oat varieties, as well as their response to a herbicide strategy, in the southern Mallee and Wimmera.

To evaluate the early biomass production, hay and grain yield of oat varieties, as well as their response to a herbicide strategy, in the southern Mallee and Wimmera.

To determine yield against various seeding rates for oats.

To determine if there is any quality variation against different seeding rates for oats.

To compare new and old varieties of crops in a demonstration trial.

To demonstrate a wide variety of crop types and varieties in the Southern Mallee.

To determine if a soil wetter, such as SE14, improves plant establishment in years with a dry start.

The purpose of the trial was to compare growth rates and dry matter production of alternative pastures with traditional medic pastures

To investigate time of sowing x crop type.

To assess the influence of sowing date and species phenology on yield dynamics of barley, oats and wheat in frost conditions

To examine the livestock benefits and impacts on cereal yield and stubble aftermath by grazing.

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 measure and report the potential impact of best management practices for dryland agriculture in the Mallee.

Assess the yield impact of different summer spray application timings at four trials in March 2017, following a widespread summer rainfall event.

To compare several field pea, vetch, canola, triticale, oat, barley and wheat varieties for dry matter production and feed value. A further trial was included to determine the optimal densities of field pea/oat mixtures. 

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.

To assess grain quality, yield and suitability to the South West of Victoria. 

To understand factors contributing to manganese deficiency in oat.

To present options for increasing zinc efficiency of cereals through breeding.

• To investigate the impact of different stubble treatments imposed towards the end of the fallow have on the yield of wheat, barley and oats.
• To evaluate any varietal responses within crop species to the impact of the different stubble treatments.

• To investigate the impact of different stubble treatments imposed towards the end of the fallow have on the yield of wheat, barley and oats.
• To evaluate any varietal responses within crop species to the impact of the different stubble treatments.

To make farmers more aware of herbicide drift and the management practices which reduce the potential for drift to occur.

To demonstrate establishment, management and viability of legume phase options in cropping rotations with appropriate agronomic management packages.

To demonstrate establishment, management and viability of legume phase options in cropping rotations with appropriate agronomic management packages.

To demonstrate establishment, management and viability of legume phase options in cropping rotations with appropriate agronomic management packages.

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

To establish nutritional requirements of oat on Eyre Peninsula.

To determine whether responses ‘to liquid P, found in wheat are the same as those found in barley, canola, oats and lentils.

To evaluate the impact of soil levelling on pre-emergent control of wild oats in chickpea.

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 evaluate a a range of Heritage seed winter feed options under specific local conditions

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.

To screen a range of minor winter crops for Pratylenchus thornei resistance: in field pea, triticale, oats canary seed, linseed and fallow.

To identify suitable pasture species for the SA Mallee.

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 evaluate oats in the system.

To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for growing conditions in the south east of Victoria.

To evaluate a number of commercially available oat varieties for yield and grain quality. These reflect the most widely grown varieties in the area and include others that may be considered in the future.

To provide growers with the tools needed to adopt site-specific weed management (SSWM) strategies as a result of a commercially viable weed ID and mapping system being demonstrated.

These trials aim to determine a yield and quality difference between oat varieties grown in the higher rainfall zone of Victoria.