To evaluate yields and quality of new and existing field pea varieties.

To evaluate yields and quality of new and existing field pea varieties.

To evaluate new and existing field pea varieties.

Determine thresholds of stubble loads (0, 1, 2 & 4t/ha) which increase severity and duration of frosts, and associated frost risks.

To assess the potential of the new Field Pea variety Kaspa against established varieties.

To conduct a field pea variety evaluation.

To test the effect of compacted inter-rows on water harvesting, production and profitability in a low rainfall wheatbelt environment.

Assess the value of several traits that aim to improve the acid-soil tolerance of wheat under field conditions.

To investigate the efficacy of seed dressing and fertiliser applied fungicides on the time of onset, rate of development and yield impact of wheat powdery mildew.

To investigate the effects of rates and granule size of copper containing superphosphate on wheat yields grown on yello9w brown gravelly  soil

To investigate if the effects of rates and granule size of copper containing superphosphate on wheat yields grown on yellow brown gravelly  soil persist into following year.

A case study to demonstrate that faba beans can serve as a much needed break crop in the dominant canola-barley rotation on the South Coast sandplain

To conduct a field pea variety trial.

To conduct a field pea variety trial.

To evaluate the yield response, efficacy and crop safety of various seed treatments in the control of root pathogens affecting wheat.

Assess potential efficacy and benefits from fungicides applied from seeding through to flowering in management of stubble borne diseases of wheat.

To further investigate rotary spading and other soil amelioration techniques on the yellow sand-plain soils west of Moora.

To assess the impact of various stubble management practices on the extent, severity and duration of frost and determine its effect on canopy temperature and grain yield.

To compare the effectiveness of Flexi-N through the boom before seeding, banded at seeding and applied at early tillering - where wheat stubble was either burnt or retained.

To compare Flexi-N timing especially for late protein boost application in wheat.

To investigate the composition of the free living nematode communities in Australian grain-growing soils; determine whether the community responds to different organic matter inputs and to various tillage and stubble management regimes; and decide whether nematodes are a useful indicator of soil health.

To demonstrate leadership and show industry-led practice change has the greatest capacity to change behaviours to reverse the trend of over-fertilising and tp promote best-practice fertiliser use, and more specifically soil testing and fertiliser application rates.

To compare the effectiveness of various Flexi-N strategies and to determine the effect of leaf scorch on yield.

For newly released faba bean varieties: demonstrate production packages, including herbicide, fertiliser

and rhizobia options that are the ‘best bet’ to maximise yield.

To investigate the adaptability of a range of field pea varieties to varying sowing dates, crop topping and disease control.

To investigate the effect of chocolate spot and rust management strategies across a range of faba bean varieties.

To investigate a range of management options across the latest varieties and potential new releases in faba bean at Westmere, and investigate the effect of chocolate spot and rust management strategies across a range of faba bean varieties.

Developing new varieties that are high yielding with a manageable level of resistance to the major fungal diseases and with quality suited to the major markets, particularly the Middle East.

To test the differences between faba bean varieties.

To investigate a range of management options across the latest varieties and potential new releases in field pea.
 

To evaluate fungicide strategies to manage blackspot in field pea in the low rainfall Mallee environment. 
 

To identify Pulse Breeding Australia (PBA) field pea genotypes which may offer yield improvements over current varieties grown in the low rainfall northern Mallee environment. 

To demonstrate six different seeding machine set-ups sowing in stubble. This demonstration was used to compare different set-ups across two different rates of triflualin at a number of different sowing speeds.

To conduct a demonstration of farmer-retained canola seed.

To determine optimum seed and fertiliser placement in canola and wheat and the effect of Agrotain in reducing seedling burn from urea.

To improve the yield potential, adaptation and grain quality of field pea in southern Australia by breeding superior varieties for growers.

To assess and evaluated a range of different pasture varieties at three different sites.

To conduct a faba bean variety evaluation.

To provide farmers with more information on the productivity of legume break crops and varieties in the northern Mallee region.

To investigate whether higher fertiliser rates profitably produced greater amounts of better quality pasture than when district average fertiliser rates are used.

• To identify which nutrient are limiting.
• To determine appropriate rates of fertiliser to apply, specifically phosphate.
• To measure the production potential of a range of crops which may be appropriate for Mallee soils.

To evaluate a range of forage shrubs in the Victorian Mallee environment in terms of plant survival, canopy development, health, edible biomass, seedling recruitment and performance under grazing.

To investigate effective fungicide strategies for controlling Ascochyta blight in chickpeas.

To evaluate potential 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 timings of Group B herbicides in comparison with the commercial variety PBA Samira. 

To investigate the response of faba bean to application of macro and micro-nutrients. 
 

To identify the best varieties available and potential commercial releases from the breeding program for growers in Victoria.

To investigate how sowing date and variety interact to affect faba bean growth, development and yield

To investigate if subsoil amelioration can increase faba bean root and shoot growth, nodulation and grain yield in soils with subsurface aciditiy and/or dense sodic subsoil

• To identify triticale genotypes which have superior frost tolerance at flowering. 
• To compare dry matter yield and growth characteristics of a range of triticale genotypes. 
• To compare grain yield and performance of a range new triticale genotypes in Southern Victoria and compare these to varieties currently grown