Sandy loam trials

To demonstrate Sakura’s commercial fit for efficacy on barley grass and yield compared to the grower’s standard treatment in wheat.

To evaluate which combination of an early bromoxynil based herbicide and follow up post-emergent herbicide will provide the best weed control and Return on investment (ROI) in a system approach to wild radish control in cereals.

To understand the effects of row spacing and row direction on plant growth, grain yield and pod drop of lentil varieties differeing in architecture and tolerance to pod drop.

To evaluate the suitability of different pulse species as break crops for different climatic, soil and biotic stress conditions.

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

To evaluate the performance of faba bean varieties and breeding lines with drought tolerant traits in low rainfall environments.

To compare the level of herbicide tolerance in PBA Bendoc (an imidazoline tolerant faba bean variety) against the newly released line PBA Amberley (tested as AF11023) to pre and post emergent applications of GpC at various rates.

To evaluate the effectiveness of different fungicide strategies for the management of blackspot disease infection in field pea to determine the most appropriate strategy for the southern low rainfall zone.

To investigate the impact of seed size in faba beans on the growth, grain yield and seed quality.

To investigate the stability of the seed size trait in PBA HallmarkXT across generations.

To investigate the implications of novel herbicide toerance traits in field pea on the management of vetch.

To investigate the implications of novel herbicide toerance traits in lentil on the management of vetch.

To investigate the response of new faba bean varieties and genotypes to sowing dates.

To investigate the response of new lentil varieties and genotypes to sowing dates.

To evaluate time of sowing and disease management programs on the establishment, biomass development and grain yield of different vetch in comparison with faba bean and field pea.

A series of trials were set up in 2013 at our Inverleigh and Westmere sites to evaluate a range of commercially available varieties of barley that are either grown for malt, grown for feed or varieties that have the potential to be grown for yield but could still be accepted as malt at receivals.

To determine what impact delaying the timing of N applications after growth stage 32 will have on wheat yield and protein, and whether there is an advantage of using solid or liquid fertiliser.

To conduct a barley variety trial.

To conduct a barley variety trial.

To conduct a barley variety trial.

To conduct a barley variety trial.

To conduct a barley variety trial.

To conduct a canola (Triazine) variety trial.

To conduct a canola (Triazine) variety trial.

To conduct a canola (Trizaine) variety trial.

To conduct a field pea variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To examine differences in zinc efficiency between chickpea cultivars.

To conduct trials across CW NSW to provide objective data on the potential for SU and Zn interactions in wheat.

To establish which of the following components has the greater effect on yield: liquid, granular or combined liquid/granular forms of fertiliser nitrogen, phosphorus and trace elements, and in-furrow fungicide.

To demonstrate the effectiveness of liquid surfactants and related application methods at seeding on crop performance on non-wetting soils with differing stubble loads and types in the Albany, Esperance and Kwinana West port zones.

• To investigate the potential role of reducing inputs to improve gross margins.
• To examine the effect of in crop monitoring using appropriate PA technology to enhance yield.
• To demonstrate to local farmers the potential use of PA tools for crop management.

To identify the severity of K deficiency in broad-acre crops in respect to the Colwell K level in the top 10 cm of soil.

To investigate the efficiencies of CoRoN, a slow release liquid nitrogen source, on Emu Rock wheat at flag leaf emergence

To assess the grazing opportunity of Moby Barley.

To evaluate the performance of Litmus (WABAR2625) barley in comparison to Hindmarsh and Wyalkatchem on an acidic soil.

Evaluation of new and existing Angustifolius lupin varieties.

To evaluate whether Apron XL improves yield in field pea crops.

In this project we aim to compare the water use efficiency (WUE) and profitability of high versus low input cropping systems

• To evaluate wheat yield and quality when growing wheat with conventional granular fertilisers or Western Mineral’s granular mineral fertiliser.
• To compare the effects of different methods of “extra” nitrogen application.

To evaluate the response of eighteen barley lines for grain yield, grain quality and malting quality to changes in soil pH (due to liming).

Evaluation of the ability of barley varieties to tolerate acid/aluminum soils.

To evaluate Buloke and Hindmarsh to industry standards.

To determine if inclusion of Bentonite clay improves crop yields on sandy soils.

The experience from trial work with TM21 in Canada and Vietnam has been that farmers have been able to reduce some of their inputs as well as maintain or increase their yield. BEST Australia set up a long-term trial at the Liebe Group Long Term Trial Site (LTRS) comparing fertiliser rates at three different input levels. This trial will continue over the next few years. During that time, BEST will be evaluating the trial at LTRS to show that fertiliser efficiency increases by using TM21 in Austr

To look at the potential of black urea in terms of lifting yields through better nitrogen efficiency.

• To test if the ‘window’ is broadened due to seed coating.
• To test the effect on yield due to timing of ‘haircut’.