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FAST projectTo link financial management to the environmental and production aspects of a variety of farming systems in south eastern Australia. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1993 | Birchip VIC |
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Fertiliser findingsTo provide answers to a number of commonly asked fertiliser questions in the southern Mallee/Northern Wimmera and to generate guidelines to assist growers develop profitable nutrient strategies for the coming season. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1993 | Birchip VIC |
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Nitrogen fertility - the key to successful croppingTo discuss the importance of nitrogen fertility and how you can go about finding out how to practically and economically use nitrogen either as fixed by rhizobium or as fertiliser. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1993 | Birchip VIC |
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Spray fallow initiation on medic pasturesTo evaluate Roundup CT and a range of additives as fallow initiation treatments. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1993 | Birchip VIC |
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Canola, peola and lentil demonstrationTo compare varieties of canola, peola an lentils. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1994 | Birchip VIC |
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'Sick crops' in the southern Mallee in 1995To answer the question 'Why are there so many sick crops in the Victorian Southern Mallee in 1995?' |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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Developing narbon beans as a commercial cropTo identify narbon bean varieties suited to the Mallee and Wimmera. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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Evaluation of lentil varieties
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Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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Farm Management 500 and Sustainable Technology (FAST) projectTo report on the final season that was monitored by the FAST project. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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Grain legumes on sandy calcareous soilsTo evaluate commercial and new pulse (grain legume) cultivars on sandy, calcareous soils, in terms of both the crop performance and its benefit in a rotation. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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Improving the productivity of sodic soils in the Wimmera and southern MalleeTo investigate how to improve the productivity of sodic soils in the Wimmera and southern Mallee. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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New chickpea varieties for low rainfall areasTo test new chickpea varieties for low rainfall areas. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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Press wheels and harrows comparison trialTo show grain producers how differnet post seeding soil levelling treatments and tillage implement design/specification affect seed placement at sowing time. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1995 | Birchip VIC |
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Evaluation of annual medic (Medicago spp.) for the southern MalleeTo assess the potential of medic pastures and compare the productivity and persistence of commercial varieties in the Birchip area. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1996 | Birchip VIC |
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Evaluation of lentil varieties for the southern MalleeTo assess the potential of lentils in the Birchip area and compare the grain yield of commercial lentil varieties at Birchip. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1996 | Birchip VIC |
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Identifying key soil indicators for sustained agricultural productionTo identify key soil indicators for sustained agricultural production. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1996 | Birchip VIC |
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Improving the productivity of sodic soils - influence of gypsum and stubble retention on canola and chickpeas grown on a sodic soilTo develop productive and sustainable cropping systems for the alkaline sodic soils in the Wimmera and southern Mallee. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1996 | Birchip VIC |
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Vetch variety evaluationTo evaluate improved vetches for cereal farming systems. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1996 | Birchip VIC |
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Developing lentils for profitability in AustraliaTo discuss a project involved in developing lentisl for profitability in Australia. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1997 | Birchip VIC |
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Canola establishmentTo demonstrate the ideal depth for optimum canola establishment in local conditions. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Cereal and linola variety demonstrationTo assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Cereal and linola variety demonstrationTo assess the suitability of various cereal and linola varieties in the Southern mallee. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Chickpea sowing time demonstrationTo determine the optimum sowing time for chickpeas in the Mallee environment. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Competitive cropsTo investigate opportunities to reduce the dependence on grass herbicides for the control of grass weeds in wheat. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Fenugreek agronomy trialsTo investigate the role of fenugreek in south eastern Australian farming systems. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Lentil agronomy: row spacingTo determine the best row spacing to optimise lentil production in the Southern Mallee. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Operation FerTill - achievements at Birchip in 1998To investigate the optimum fertiliser placement when sowing wheat. |
Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC |
1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Residual effects of Ally on pulses and canola grown on alkaline soilsTo determine whether Ally applied during the previous winter would have an effect on pulse and canola production the following year. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Seed dressing trial on wheatTo compare two new Rhone-Poulenc seed dressing treatments against existing products with and without Trifluralin. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Solutions to haying-off in wheatTo test the growth and yield of reduced tillering wheats in the southern Mallee. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Stubble preparation trialTo investigate the effects of sowing various crops into different stubble management techniques: burnt, burnt and worked, mulched, slashed and standing. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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What is the best product for topdressing nitrogen?To determine the best form of nitrogen fertiliser for topdressing on alkaline soils. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1998 | Birchip VIC |
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Advanced vetch variety evaluationTo conduct an advanced vetch variety evaluation. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Advanced wheat variety evaluationTo conduct an advanced wheat variety evaluation. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Alternative nutrition trialTo conduct an alternative nutrition trial. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Aventis CropScience barley seed dressing trialTo conduct a barley seed dressing trial. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Breeding approaches to improving seeding establishment of wheatTo discuss breeding approaches to improving seeding establishment of wheat. |
Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC |
1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Canola variety trialTo determine the suitability of various canola varieties to the Southern Mallee environment. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Cereal on cereal - managing a rotationTo investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Cereal on cereal - managing a rotationTo investigate some options in trial work in relation to sowing cereal on cereal and review farmers' experience with cereal on cereal. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Cereal variety demonstrationTo conduct a cereal variety demonstration. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Chickpea variety evaluationTo conduct a chickpea variety evaluation. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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CLEARFIELD® production system demonstrationTo conduct a Clearfield production system demonstration. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Faba bean variety evaluationTo conduct a faba bean variety evaluation. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Farming systems 2000 production reportTo discuss the BCG Farming Systems 2000 season. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Farming systems 2001 pasture and livestock dataTo compare the profitability of four different farming systems. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Farming systems 2001 production reportTo report on the BCG Farming Systems project in 2001. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Fenugreek variety trialTo conduct a Fenugreek variety trial. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Field pea variety evaluationTo conduct a field pea variety evaluation. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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Lentil variety evaluationTo conduct a lentil variety evaluation. |
Birchip Cropping Group
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1999 | Birchip VIC |
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