Sea Lake VIC trials

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Advanced lupin variety evaluation

To evaluate improved lupin varieties for the Victorian Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Advanced lupin variety evaluation

The aim of this trial was to exaluate and develop improved lupin varieties for the Victorian Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Are canola and nitrogen good 'seed bed' fellows
To determine the effect that urea and GranAm (SOA), deep banded at different rates, has on canola establishment.
Birchip Cropping Group
BCG members
2012 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Aventis CropScience barley seed dressing trial

To conduct a barley seed dressing trial.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Better grazing systems

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.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
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 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Canola establishment

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

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Canola variety demonstration

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

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Canola variety trial

To demonstrate the suitability of various canola varieties to the Southern mallee environment.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Canola variety trial

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

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Cereal and linola variety demonstration

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

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Cereal and linola variety demonstration

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

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Cereal variety demonstration

To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Cereal variety demonstration

To conduct a cereal variety demonstration.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Cereal variety demonstrations

To demonstrate growth of a number of different cereal varieties.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
FAST project

To link financial management to the environmental and production aspects of a variety of farming systems in south eastern Australia.

Birchip Cropping Group
1993 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Fence-line weeds and glyphosate resistance

To identify weed species that pose the greatest threats to agricultural produciton if incursion an dispersal is allowed to occur from roadsides and fence-lines into farmed land.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Fluid phosphorus in the Mallee Landcare delivery sites
  • To determine if fluid sources of phosphorus (P) have a greater efficiency for cereal production in the Southern Mallee.
  • To ascertain whether the effectiveness and delivery of micronutrients, such as Zinc (Zn), is improved when supplied as a fluid.
Birchip Cropping Group
2008 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Frogs on farms
  • To determine the use of new design wildlife ponds by frogs.
  • To determine the ability of frogs to disperse from existing channel-fed water sources to wildlife ponds.
  • To determine the potential to re-establish populaitons within their former range in the Northern Mallee Pipeline region.
  • To determine whether the new design willdlife pond can maintain or enhance broader biodiversity value benefits, using birds as indicators.
Birchip Cropping Group
2009 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Grazing canola: pure madness?

To evaluate a vigorous hybrid canola variety in a low rainfall Mallee environment for its grazing value at different growth stages, and its ability to recover from grazing.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2012 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Growing high protein hard and durum wheat

To identify the agronomic practices which lead to the production of high quality hard and durum wheat. 

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Growing malting barley

To determine the agronomic conditions required to grow a quality barley product suitable for malting.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Healthy soils for sustainable farms

To improve soil health and sustainable soil management practices in the region.

Birchip Cropping Group
2007 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Hindmarsh still dominates: barley varieties for 2012

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

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2012 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Lentil agronomy: row spacing

To determine the best row spacing to optimise lentil production in the Southern Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Lentil agronomy: sowing rate

To determine the best sowing rate to optimise lentil production in the Southern Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Liquid P and micronutrients in the Mallee

On sandy soils in the Mallee to test the efficiency of granular versus liquid P fertilisers and determine the impact of zinc and copper on crop performance.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Making the grade for malting barley

To investigate how to make the grade for malting barley.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Operation FerTill - achievements at Birchip in 1998

To investigate the optimum fertiliser placement when sowing wheat.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates

To discuss optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Optimising phosphorus fertiliser rates on alkaline soils

To identify the critical P fertiliser rates for a broad range of crops on different soil types in the southern Mallee and northern Wimmera. This trial was also undertaken in 1999.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Perennial pastures

Perennial pastures are being investigated for their potential fit in the Wimmera Mallee region.

Birchip Cropping Group
2006 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Pivot yield responses in a zinc deficient soil

The aim of this trial was to assess zinc deficiencies in both cereals and pulses in the Sea Lake region.

Birchip Cropping Group
2000 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Pulse variety demonstration

To show the wide range of varieties and crop types, how they look and perform under local conditions. 

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Retaining canola seed: a saving or high risk cost?

To compare the performance of certified (F1) vs retained (F2) generations of an open-pollinated and hybrid canola variety at different plant densities.

Birchip Cropping Group
BCG members
2012 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Row spacings and sowing rates on crop yield and quality

To investigate row spacing and sowing rates on crop yield and quality.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Sakura tolerance in barley

To compare crop safety of Sakura on two barley varieties (Hindmarsh and Scope) sown at different depths.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2012 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Seed dressing trial on wheat

To compare two new Rhone-Poulenc seed dressing treatments against existing products with and without Trifluralin.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Soil erosion assessment and management

To assess the impact of the 2006 drought on soil resources of the Mallee region, and to identify preventative means for soil stabilization.

Birchip Cropping Group
2006 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Sulphur and nitrogen nutrition of canola

To investigate the role of sulphur and nitrogen in canola nutrition at Sea Lake.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Super wheat crop demonstration

To conduct a super wheat crop demonstration.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Sustainable land management

In 2006 seven Demonstration Sites funded by the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the National Landcare Program continued to be used to demonstrate and measure the potential impact of best management practices for dryland agriculture in the Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Sustainable land management

To measure and report the potential impact of best management practices for dryland agriculture in the Mallee.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Timing is everything: barley and canola time of sowing

To compare alternative agronomic practices that may improve establishment of new and current barley varieties in wider row spacings.

Birchip Cropping Group
2012 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
What is the best product for topdressing nitrogen?

To determine the best form of nitrogen fertiliser for topdressing on alkaline soils.

Birchip Cropping Group
1998 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
What is the best product for topdressing nitrogen?

To discuss the question 'What is the best product for topdressing nitrogen?'.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
When and how to use nitrogen fertiliser

To investigate the response to nitrogen fertiliser on wheat.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Yellow leaf spot control

To investigate wider range of fungicides for yellow leaf spot control.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Zinc nutrition trials

To conduct zinc nutrition trials.

Birchip Cropping Group
1999 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton