Stokes Bay Road trials

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Building Resilience and Profitability of High Rainfall Farmers

This was the second year in a three-year project that is focusing on building resilient farm businesses and strengthening farm decision making.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2021 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Can we improve wheat yields?

To identify key ingredients of agronomic packages that deliver high yielding wheat crops with good quality in the Parndana environment.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2005 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Impact of modifying subsoil at Parndana

To test the impact of adding gypsum, lime or fertilisers to the subsoil.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
NLP
2005 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Increasing kikuyu production in winter
  • To test ProGibb SG for the potential to increase kikuyu production in winter.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2011 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Is biodiesel from canola an option for Kangaroo Island?
  • To demonstrate to the biodiesel industry the potential of Kangaroo Island canola as a promising feedstock. 
  • To test the potential of genetics to improve canola production and the canola agronomy trial tested the potential of management to improve production.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2005 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Pasture cropping: can you have your cake and eat it too?

To investigate the idea of Pasture Cropping (PC), which involves seeding a crop into an existing summer-active pasture stand without killing the pasture.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2010 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Pasture cropping: peas and kikuyu a great mix
  • To investigate posture cropping - involving seeding an annual winter active species (peas) into an existing summer-active perennial pasture stand (kikuyu).
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2011 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Pastures from space

To conduct ground truthing for the Pastures from space program, which provides estimates of pasture growth rate during the growing season by mean of remote sensing.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2007 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
Precision Agriculture-making it work on KI

The mapping of soil pH and nutrients across a paddock enables landholders to accurately determine application rates of lime and fertiliser. This can reduce the need for blanket applications, which are both time-consuming and expensive.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2017 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton
What's the best management package for canola?

To identify key ingredients of agronomic packages that deliver high yielding canola crops with high oil contents in the Parndana environment.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2005 Stokes Bay Road
Research organisaton