• To investigate the effects of nitrogen fertiliser application to established kikuyu stands.

To report on results of a visit by Wayne Hawthorne (esteemed pulse expert from Pulse Australia) to Kangaroo Island.

This was the second year in a three-year project that is focusing on building resilient farm businesses and strengthening farm decision making.

to explore how biological approaches to restoring soil health and holistic grazing practices lead to improved soil health, increased soil carbon, increased soil water holding capacity, improved plant health, improved production, increased on farm diversity and a reduced need for synthetic inputs.

To investigate:

• the efficacy of the pre-emergent herbicide treatments on brome grass,
• the weed competitiveness of different varieties at different row spacing configurations, and
• the relative yields of the different varieties with the different herbicide applications and row spacing configurations.

To evaluate the responses of seven barley cultivars to three times of sowing (TOS): early, mid and late and assess their suitability to the Wimmera Mallee.

To evaluate the yield potential of Victorian stage 4 trial barley varieties.

To examine the value of canopy management in the Mallee environment.

To examine the value of canopy management in the Wimmera environment.

To look at canopy management in malting barley.

To compare a number of different products used to control diseases in barly in the southern Mallee and norther Wimmera.

To evaluate the effectiveness of various strategies for managing foliar diseases in separate barley (Experiment 1) and wheat (Experiment 2) experiments using foliar and fertiliser applied fungicides.

To determine the most effecient herbicide options for controlling barley grass and brome grass in wheat and barley.

To evaluate the potential of combining summer-growing perennial grasses with a cereal in a pasture cropping system in the Mallee.

To assess the response of six barley varieties treated with five different N rates at sowing.

To determine whether late sown cereal crops reqire higher rate of P.

To generate independent information for growers about newly released barley crop varieties.

To compare the performance of new and existing barley varieties and the influence of sowing time
on crop performance.

To compare the performance of seven barley varieties in a Mallee environment (Berriwillock).

To compare the performance of new and current barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.

The aim of this report was to assess differing barley varieties in varied growing environments.

To conduct an on-farm barley demonstration.

To compare the performance of new and existing barley varieties in the Wimmera and Mallee.

To conduct a barley variety trial.

To investigate and identify potential new malting varieties for Victorian growers.

To provide a barley variety update.

To assess the natural incidence of two BYD strains (PAV and RPV) in an insecticide treated field and to evaluate the effects of diseasse 'hot spots' (infected plots with BYD) and infection rate on neighbouring plants.

To demonstrate the performance and effectiveness of new pre-emergen chemistry, Bayer 191, in reducing resistant ryegass populations in winter cereals.

To increase the awareness of grain marketing tools available to grain growers and to demonstrate how they can be utilised.

To increase the awareness of grain marketing tools available to grain growers and to demonstrate how they can be utilised.

To test the accuracy of alkaline and acid tests on soil labs.

The aim of better grazing systems in the low rainfall wheat/sheep zone should be to increase pasture returns without negative effects on the cropping phase.

This paper addresses three issues:

• The challenges facing high input farming systems,
• How valid is biological farming as an alternative, and
• Can high input farming and alternative methods be integrated?

To compare different fungicides for control of blackleg.

To investigate the bio-fumigation effects of canola dn mustard varieties on root disease and a number of crop varieties.

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

To identify low-risk, profitable break crops for the mallee regions and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.

To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.

To identify low risk, profitable break crops for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.

To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.

To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.

To discuss breeding approaches to improving seeding establishment of wheat.

To conduct an on-farm chick-pea demonstration.

The aim was to compare broadcasting as a sowing method with the conventional method of sowing.

To determine the most cost effective herbicide in wheat (Meering) to control the most common weeds found in the Southern Mallee/northern Wimmera

To determine the most cost effective herbicide in wheat (Meering) to control the most common weeds found in the southern Mallee/northern Wimmera.

To determine the best technique for controlling brome grass in wheat and barley.

To investigate the germination behaviour and seed dormancy of brome grass populations from the Victorian mallee and provide information on control.