Birchip VIC trials

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'Sick crops' in the southern Mallee in 1995

To answer the question 'Why are there so many sick crops in the Victorian Southern Mallee in 1995?'

Birchip Cropping Group
1995 Birchip VIC
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A new test to accurately predict phosphorus fertiliser requirements

To determine if DGT could predict P fertiliser requirements for the field and to compare results from the DGT soil P test with other common soil P testing techniques (Colwell P and resin).

Birchip Cropping Group
2007 Birchip VIC
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Advanced vetch variety evaluation

To conduct an advanced vetch variety evaluation.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Advanced vetch variety evaluation

To evaluate improved vetch varieties for the Victorian Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Birchip VIC
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Advanced wheat variety evaluation

To conduct an advanced wheat variety evaluation.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Agronomic adaptions to a changing climate

To trial and demonstrate two possible agronomic adaptations to a changing climate:

  • to sow wheat varieties earlier to reduce the possibility of heat shock events during grain fill whilst taking into account the frost risk, and
  • to sow more than one variety in the one paddock as a mix to ensure that the whole crop is not susceptable to frost and heat shock at the same time.
Birchip Cropping Group
CSIRO GRDC
2010 Birchip VIC
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Alternative nutrition in wheat

To investigate the application of an alternative foliar fertiliser.

Birchip Cropping Group
2003 Birchip VIC
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Alternative nutrition trial

To conduct an alternative nutrition trial.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Aventis CropScience barley seed dressing trial

To conduct a barley seed dressing trial.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Barley canopy management - Mallee

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

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2004 Birchip VIC
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Barley varieties

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

Birchip Cropping Group
2007 Birchip VIC
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Barley variety trials

To conduct a barley variety trial.

Birchip Cropping Group
2006 Birchip VIC
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Breeding approaches to improving seeding establishment of wheat

To discuss breeding approaches to improving seeding establishment of wheat.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
1999 Birchip VIC
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Broadcasting as a sowing method

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

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Birchip VIC
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Brome grass control in wheat

To compare control options for Brome grass in wheat and investigate two new options – Clearfield wheat technology and Atlantis herbicide.

Birchip Cropping Group
2002 Birchip VIC
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Can we economically increase grain protein at flowering?

To increase grain protein (%) in wheat and barley by means of late applications of nitrogen (N) applied as UAN.

Birchip Cropping Group
2012 Birchip VIC
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Canola establishment

To demonstrate the ideal depth for optimum canola establishment in local conditions.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Birchip VIC
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Canola variety demonstration

To compare established and new canola varieties for yield and oil.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Birchip VIC
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Canola variety trial

To determine the suitability of various canola varieties to the Southern Mallee environment.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Canola, peola and lentil demonstration

To compare varieties of canola, peola an lentils.

Birchip Cropping Group
1994 Birchip VIC
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Cereal and linola variety demonstration

To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Birchip VIC
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Cereal and linola variety demonstration

To assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Birchip VIC
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Cereal on cereal - managing a rotation

To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Cereal on cereal - managing a rotation

To investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Cereal variety demonstration

To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Cereal variety demonstrations

To demonstrate growth of a number of different cereal varieties.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Birchip VIC
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Chickpea sowing time demonstration

To determine the optimum sowing time for chickpeas in the Mallee environment.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Birchip VIC
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Chickpea variety evaluation

To conduct a chickpea variety evaluation.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Chickpea variety evaluation

To investigate the yield potential of new chickpea lines with improved ascochyta blight resistance.

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Chickpea variety sowing guide for 2012

To provide growers with a list of suggested varieties for 2012 from the large range of varieties now available and to provide information about current varieties that still have limitations which growers need to know and to manage for.

Birchip Cropping Group
2011 Birchip VIC
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Cleaning boomsprays after using sulfonylurea herbicides

To raise awareness and highlight the importance of cleaning boomspray equipment properly after using SU herbicides.

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Clearfield tolerant juncea canola crop tolerance evaluation

To conduct a pre-release evaluation (crop tolerance testing) of potential new canola quality Brassica juncea varieties (J05Z-08920 and J05Z-08960) for tolerance to the appropriate CLEARFIELD® (imidazolinone) herbicide products.

Birchip Cropping Group
2007 Birchip VIC
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CLEARFIELD® production system demonstration

To conduct a Clearfield production system demonstration.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Birchip VIC
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Competitive crops

To investigate opportunities to reduce the dependence on grass herbicides for the control of grass weeds in wheat.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Birchip VIC
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Competitive crops for grass weed control - an alternative option

To compare the competitive nature of wheat and barley sown at different row spacing and seeding rates on grass weed competition.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Birchip VIC
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Competitive crops for grass weed control - an alternative option

To compare the competitive nature of wheat and barley sown at different row spacing and seeding rates on grass weed competition.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Birchip VIC
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Controlling aphids for early disease control

To answer the questions of whether applying a preventative spray regardless of conditions was good practice (i.e. does it help in controlling disease?) and was it cost effective?

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Controlling rosinweed

To identify some herbicide options for controlling Rosinweed.

Birchip Cropping Group
2004 Birchip VIC
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Converting rainfall into dollars!

To investigate the effect of rainfall on farm gross income in the southern Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
2003 Birchip VIC
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Cultivation versus chemical fallowing

To monitor moisture retention and nitrogen accumulation under cultivated and chemical fallow regimes.

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Demonstrating the effect of water quality on glyphosate efficacy

To investigate the effect of water quality on glyphosate efficacy when used in a spring-spraying knockdown scenario.

Birchip Cropping Group
2003 Birchip VIC
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Desiccation of lentils to improve harvestability

To determine whether desiccation of lentils helps with harvestability.

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Developing a fungicide strategy to control SFNB in Gairdner barley

To establish a fungicide strategy to control spot form of net bllotch in Gairdner barley.

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Developing lentils for profitability in Australia

To discuss a project involved in developing lentisl for profitability in Australia.

Birchip Cropping Group
1997 Birchip VIC
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Developing narbon beans as a commercial crop

To identify narbon bean varieties suited to the Mallee and Wimmera.

Birchip Cropping Group
1995 Birchip VIC
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Do livestock systems act as a buffer against income volatility

To quanitfy the role of livestock in the financial performance of Wimmera and Malle farming systems.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2013 Birchip VIC
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Does size really matter - granule size and nutrient availability?

To investigate whether fertiliser granule size influences nutrient availability to plants.

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Does size really matter - granule size and nutrient availability?

To investigate whether fertiliser granule size influences nutrient availability to plants.

Birchip Cropping Group
2001 Birchip VIC
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Evaluation of annual medic (Medicago spp.) for the southern Mallee

To assess the potential of medic pastures and compare the productivity and persistence of commercial varieties in the Birchip area.

Birchip Cropping Group
1996 Birchip VIC
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Evaluation of lentil varieties
  • To assess the potential of lentils on light sandy soils in the Birchip area.
  • To compare the grain yield of commercial lentil varieties at Birchip.
  • To assess the effect of sowing time on grain yield.
Birchip Cropping Group
1995 Birchip VIC
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