Condobolin NSW trials

To capture some of these realities and provide an indication of how the different systems compare in physical and economic terms.

To report on a sowing depth study comparing growth and yield of long coleoptile-selected wheats with commercial tall and semi dwarf varieties.

To report on trials showing the value of nitrogen.

To see whether green manure a viable management option (in terms of maintenance of ground cover and other agronomic benefits) as we know that terminating cover crops will result in 100% seed set control providing that the crop is effectively killed at an appropriate time.

To increase grower awareness of: the current status of soil acidification and the associated causes and impacts and associated need to address of soil acidification via the ongoing application of agricultural lime.

To increase grower awareness of: the current status of soil acidification and the associated causes and impacts and associated need to address of soil acidification via the ongoing application of agricultural lime.

To increase grower awareness of the benefits of applying Lime to a cropping operation. Providing local relevance to farmers.

To report on barley variety and agronomy trials conducted at many of the CWFS sites.

To investigate the possibility of reducing the inoculum of Fusarium graminearum in wheat stubble by spraying the stubble with spores of a harmless fungus, Trichoderma species, in order to control the disease.

To present actual farming results from a large cropping program in the Condobolin area in central NSW.

To determine the best management practices for growing the new varieties of chickpeas here in Condobolin.

To investigate whether plant growth affected by sodic subsoils.

To provide localised data on the yield and quality response of released and near release oats lines.

To provide localised data on the yield and quality response of released and near release wheat lines.

To provide localised data on the yield and quality response of released and near release field pea lines.

To answer the question - continuous cropping - is it sustainable?

To present information about controlled traffic farming.

To report on activities and results from the core site in 2005.

To investigate the management, profitability and sustainability of four farming systems.

To report on the CWFS Crop Monitoring project.

To examine the strengths and weaknesses of four farming systems and document their relative profitability and sustainability.

To evaluate stripe rust management strategies for wheat in 2004 & 2005.

To investigate the management, sustainability and profitability of a range of farming systems. 

• To assess the potential for yield and quality responses from controlling Stripe Rust (SR) in several wheat varieties with differing levels of SR resistance in central-west (CW) NSW.
• To assess the level of stripe rust control achieved by using different fungicide products including seed dressings, fertiliser dressing and foliar sprays.

To determine the success of Pasture Cropping for different starting pasture compositions and crop sequences (i.e. the difference betweencropping year-after-year compared to doing it once) in comparison to No Till cropping and pasture treatments. Success will be assessed by the profitability of the crop, the grazing value of the pasture, perennial grass recruitment and resource condition.

To measure the impact of grazing within cropping systems on soil properties, water dynamics and crop yield.

To develop high water-use farming systems that integrate crops with perennial pastures.

To test the optimum sowing time for long season wheat cultivars uisng three target sowing dates.

To report on interactions between management practices and soil biota in northern farming systems.

To test the hypothesis that over time in controlled traffic farming systems the repeated uneven spreading of header residue back over the tram track width would result in changed soil conditions that would ultimately lead to different “management zones” along the tram track.

To identify any possible impacts on crop growth in controlled traffic systems where the header residue maybe inconsistently spread back across the tram track width over a number of seasons.

To investigate the effects of different soil ameliorants at different rates on sodic soils.

To examine two main management options to deal with high stubble loads (≥5t/ha) in 2017, and incorporates many of the main findings from the stubble initiative to date.

To improve decision making amongst local farmers by improving the knowledge and understanding of the economic relationships which exist in our farming systems, and improving skills of participants to assess particularly the economic consequences of their decision making in critical areas within their farm business.

To provide information regarding managing your crop's nitrogen.

To report on mechanisms of weed suppression in early vigour and weed suppressive wheat genotypes.

To report on trials showing the value of nitrogen.

To report on the mouse monitoring program; part of a 3 year study funded by the GRDC to monitor mouse populations and forecast the liklihood of mouse outbreaks.

To report on the mouse monitoring program; part of a 3 year study funded by the GRDC to monitor mouse populations and forecast the liklihood of mouse outbreaks.

To provide a special report on Mouse Census Week - a part of the mouse monitoring program; part of a 3 year study funded by the GRDC to monitor mouse populations and forecast the liklihood of mouse outbreaks.

To develop variety specific agronomy packages for the major winter crops in southern NSW with emphasis on agronomic practices that are likely to have a genotype x environment interaction.

To report on nitrogen inputs from pasture legumes in a cropping rotation.

To measure N20 emitted by vetch, field peas and wheat stubble over summer and to determine whether
top-dressed inhibitor-treated and slow release urea products influence N2O emissions.

To know more about nutrition of stock.

To observe the effects that pasture species, length of the pasture phase and management have on the nitrogen cycle.

To quanitfy these grain yield increases achievable in wheat and canola in the central west of NSW through varying P rate experiments.

To quanitfy these grain yield increases achievable in wheat and canola in the central west of NSW through varying P rate experiments.

To investigate pulse crops for Central Western NSW.

To detemine how well alternative pulse crops grow in the district and to calculate the associated gross margins to determine their profitability.

To provide growers with information about break crop options available to them.