Agriculture Victoria trials

To evaluate effectiveness of commercially available inoculant products to increase nodulation in chickpea. 

To identify nutrient inputs that will improve growth and yield of chickpea on the variable soil types encountered in Mallee paddocks.

To evaluate effectiveness of commercially available inoculant products to increase nodulation in field pea. 

To identify the best adapted lentil varieties to the variable soil types encountered in Mallee paddocks.

To identify nutrient inputs that will improve growth and yield of lentil on the variable soil types encountered in Mallee paddocks.

To identify the best adapted lentil varieties to the variable soil types encountered in Mallee paddocks. 

To identify the best adapted lentil varieties to the variable soil types encountered in Mallee paddocks. 
 

To evaluate the effectiveness of agronomic practices and varietal tolerance to improve the safety of group C herbicide application to lentils grown on Mallee sands. 

To evaluate the effectiveness of agronomic practices and varietal tolerance to improve the safety of herbicide application to lupins grown on Mallee sands. 

Improve canopy management and harvest index of Faba beans

Improve targeted and sustainable use of fungicide for disease management in faba beans

Determine whether nutrition is limiting yield in faba beans and assess N fixation

To test the disease management efficacy of a set of fungicide programs in faba beans in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).  
 

To evaluate new breeding lines of faba beans for the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ). 

To test the response of two common faba bean varieties to changes in plant density in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ). 

To evaluate potential new foliar fungicide spray strategies and varieties for management of aschochyta blight in chickpeas. 

To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application. 

To evaluate the performance of a range of faba bean varieties and breeding lines with traits for adaptation to low rainfall zones. 

To evaluate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and breeding lines in the low rainfall zone. 
 

To investigate the tolerance of a new genotype ‘LGPC’ to post emergent application of various Group C herbicides and Group C & F mixes in comparison with PBA Jumbo2. 
 

To demostrate the the imidazolinone and residual sulfonyl urea tolerance of 2 new breedling lines. 

To investigate the potential improved tolerance of a faba bean breeding line to metribuzin in comparison with PBA Samira 

To investigate the impact of standing stubble on disease progression and resulting yield loss in faba bean.

To investigate the impact of standing stubble on ascochyta blight infection and resulting yield loss in chickpeas.

To understand the impact of differing wheat stubble loads on the establishment of canola under a range of locally relevant sowing practices.

Evaluate the response of cultivar, seeding density and canopy management (PGR and defoliation) to manipulate canopy architecture in a high yielding faba bean Amberley compared to current practice Samira and Bendoc.

Evaluate the potential to manage disease more sustainably in Faba beans through improving management guidelines that dissect the interaction between fungicide application timing and improved genetic resistance

Evaluate the nutritional needs of high yield potential beans through the addition of N, P and nutrition sources

To evaluate chickpea varieties and breeding lines against ascochyta blight and their response to foliar fungicide application. 

To evaluate potential new foliar fungicide spray strategies and varieties for management of aschochyta blight in chickpeas.

To investigate the adaptability of a range of chickpea varieties and breeding lines to varying sowing dates. 

To evaluate the yield of chickpea breeding lines with cold tolerance traits in comparison to selected commercial varieties. 

To evaluate potential of foliar fungicide spray strategies, new breeding lines and varieties for management of fungal diseases in faba bean. 

To investigate the tolerance of a newly released faba bean variety PBA Bendoc to residual (simulated) and in-crop application of various Group B herbicides in comparison with the commercial variety PBA Samira. 

To investigate the response of faba bean to phosphorus fertilizer rates. 

To evaluate the tolerance of PBA Hurricane XT to post sowing pre-emergent and in-crop application timings of Group B herbicides in comparison with PBA Jumbo2.

To investigate the tolerance of a new genotype ‘LGPC’ with improved tolerance to Group C herbicide to post emergence application of various Group C herbicides and Group C & F mixes in comparison with PBA Jumbo2. 

To investigate the adaptability of a range of lentil varieties and breeding lines to varying sowing dates. 

To evaluate autumn or spring sowing for chickpea varieties in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ). 

To assess the efficacy of fungicide programs to manage black spot in field peas in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).  

To test the effect of micronutrient supplements on field pea grain yield. 
 

To test the adaptability of field pea varieties to changes in sowing time. 

To evaluate the impact of sowing date on lentil varieties for the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ). 

To assess the potential of non-commercial later maturing canola lines for the HRZ of southern Australia.

To evalaute yield reponses of chickpea to deep ripping across the variable soil types encountered within Mallee paddocks

To evaluate the appropriateness of chickpea varieties for the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ) on an autumn or spring sowing date. 

To assess the efficacy of fungicide programs in faba beans in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ).   

To test the adaptability of faba beans to changes in sowing date and plant density in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ). 
 

To test the adaptability of field pea varieties to changes in sowing time in the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ). 

To evaluate the appropriateness of lentil varieties for the Victorian high rainfall zone (HRZ) at two sowing dates.