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1995 US farm bill

To inform about the 1995 farm bill.

Birchip Cropping Group
1995 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
2003 - the year that was
Birchip Cropping Group
2003 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
2006 - A year to leave behind but not to forget

To comment on the year that was 2006.

Birchip Cropping Group
2006 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
2007 Seasonal outlook

To review the broadscale weather pattern and summarise implications for the 2007 cropping season, i.e. May-October.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2006 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Aerial video for crop monitoring

To discuss the benefits of using aeroplanes for monitoring purposes in cropping.

Birchip Cropping Group
1996 St Arnaud VIC
Research organisaton
Ag Tools and Tech Demonstration Sites

Varied. Please see article. 

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2021 Seddon SA
Research organisaton
Agronomy messages for 2006

To present the main messages from the agronomy trial work undertaken in 2005.

Birchip Cropping Group
2005 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Assessing your farming enterprise

To discuss the profitability of farming enterprises.

Birchip Cropping Group
1996 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
BCG marketing challenge - barley

To increase the awareness of grain marketing tools available to grain growers and to demonstrate how they can be utilised.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
BCG marketing challenge - wheat

To increase the awareness of grain marketing tools available to grain growers and to demonstrate how they can be utilised.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Better defining yield potential for the Upper Eyre Peninsula

To build resilience into EP farms by understanding the interactions between soil potential, climate and management.

SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
GRDC
2010 Mudamuckla SA
Research organisaton
Bio-responsible farming: the quest for farming systems friendly to all especially the wallet

This paper addresses three issues:

  • The challenges facing high input farming systems,
  • How valid is biological farming as an alternative, and
  • Can high input farming and alternative methods be integrated?
Birchip Cropping Group
2006 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Blackleg in canola

To assess the effect of blackleg on canola crops and varieties in the South East of SA.

MacKillop Farm Management Group
GRDC
2009 Struan SA
Research organisaton
Business management and farm profitability: Case studies of growers in Western Australia

To gain insights from some of the top performing farm businesses in the zone about their management, agronomy practices and the triggers for key decision-making.

Cox Inall Communications
GRDC
2016 Merredin WA
Research organisaton
Can bees increase crop yields?
  • To evaluate the benefit of yield and pod development from the introduction of bees and the management of the pollination process.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2006 SA
Research organisaton
Capturing barley grass in broad acre paddocks

To investigate swathing early then harvesting for weed seed collection to evaluate usefulness for farmers in providing another tool for integrated weed management, especially for barley grass that matures and sheds seed before crops ripen.

SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
SAGIT
2017 Condado SA
Research organisaton
Case studies to review methods for defining within-paddock management zones - Kwinana West Zone

To evaluate if there is any difference in deriving management zones from soil or production spatial information and in what situations each of these layers may be useful to help maximise grower investment in PA technologies.

Precision Agriculture Pty Ltd
GRDC
2015 Wickepin WA
Research organisaton
Case studies to review methods for defining within-paddock management zones - Kwinana West zone

This project aims to evaluate if there is any difference in deriving management zones from soil or production spatial information and in what situations each of these layers may be useful to help maximise grower investment in PA technologies.

Corrigin Farm Improvement Group
GRDC
2016 Corrigin WA
Research organisaton
Cereal root diseases in 1995

To answer the questions 'What can I do about root diseases between now and sowing?'

Birchip Cropping Group
1994 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Cereal variety disease guide 2011

To present the Cereal Variety Disease Guide for 2011.

South Australian Research and Development Institute
2010 Urrbrae SA
Research organisaton
Consider the alternatives to buying or selling agricultural land

To compare the weaknesses and strengths of common non-ownership options and proposes an alternative to the norm.

Birchip Cropping Group
2006 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Converting rainfall into dollars!

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

Birchip Cropping Group
2003 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Coping with stress in our rural communities

To discuss how to cope with stress in rural communities.

Birchip Cropping Group
2002 Horsham VIC
Research organisaton
Critical breaking point?' The effects of drought and other pressures on farming families

To discuss the effects of drought and other pressures upon farming families in the Wimmera Southern Mallee region.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2008 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Cross reference of previous trial results 2005 to 2010

To provide information on cross reference of previous  trial results 2005 – 2010.
 

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Decisions used by NSW grains industry advisers to determine nitrogen fertiliser management recommendations

Toreport on decisions used by NSW grains industry advisers to determine nitrogen fertiliser management recommendations.

Department of Primary Industries NSW
GRDC
2016 Tamworth Agricultural Institute NSW
Research organisaton
Diversity in a piped system
  • To assess the biodiversity values of stock water points in the Wimmera Mallee Channel/Dam region and the Northern Mallee Pipeline region.
  • To determine whether biodiversity and the environmental values of open water can be maintained in a farming landscape through the use of purpose-built water points for wildlife.
  • To develop guidelines for farmers and industry on the use of water points for best management of wildlife within a piped water delivery system.
Birchip Cropping Group
RIRDC
2004 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Diversity in a piped system - 2004 to 2006

To sample fauna distribution, abundance and habitat use at the different water access points.

Birchip Cropping Group
RIRDC
2004 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Drought - the catalyst for change

To present ideas around drought being a catalyst for change.

Birchip Cropping Group
2002 Bendigo VIC
Research organisaton
Effect of heat stress on canola yield: A novel method of imposing heat stress in the field environment

The aim of this experiment was to test a novel method of imposing heat stress in the field and determine the effect of heat stress on canola grain yield and its interaction with water availability

Department of Primary Industries NSW
DPI NSW GRDC
2017 Wagga Wagga ACT
Research organisaton
Effective baiting options for the control of conical snails in the Albany Port Zone

To work out what are the most important factors affecting bait efficacy on small pointed snails.

Stirlings to Coast Farmers
GRDC
2016 Albany WA
Research organisaton
EM38 mapping on MAC – farm approach

Previous work in the Mallee has shown the EM38 technology has benefited farm profit. On that basis we have commenced a demonstration on the Minnipa Agricultural Centre to validate previous Mallee outcomes.

SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
2010 Minnipa SA
Research organisaton
Estimating pasture legume seed reserves

To provide a useful technique for estimating pasture legume seed reserved in paddocks.

Birchip Cropping Group
1993 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Extending best practice wool innovations on Eyre Peninsula

To reinvigorate the livestock component of the EP farming system.

SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
2011 Minnipa SA
Research organisaton
Farm Management 500 and Sustainable Technology (FAST) project

To report on the final season that was monitored by the FAST project.

Birchip Cropping Group
1995 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Farming systems 2002 livestock report

To investigate pasture production and utilisation by sheep.

Birchip Cropping Group
2003 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton
Farming systems trial economics
  • To compare performance of four different farming systems, over the years 2003-08, using prices appropriate for 2009.
  • To use a machinery inventory and relevant costings compared with contract pricing for operations.
Birchip Cropping Group
2008 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton
Farming systems trial machinery

To see how different the machinery requirements are in different farming systems.

Birchip Cropping Group
2008 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Farming systems WUE survey 2010 – practices
  • The Minnipa Agricultural Centre (MAC) has been funded by Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) to run a research and extension program (Eyre Peninsula Farming Systems 3 – Responsive Farming Systems) to improve water use efficiency on farms by 10% on upper Eyre Peninsula (EP). This is seen as one of the main ways to improve profit and manage risk for farm businesses.
SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
GRDC
2011 Minnipa SA
Research organisaton
Farming to soil potential on the Upper Eyre Peninsula: how accurate was in-season yield prediction in 2009?

To test whether knowledge of soil potential, soil variation and in-season predictions of grain yield with Yield Prophet could be useful to improving management.

SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre
GRDC
2009 Mudamuckla SA
Research organisaton
FAST points the way to profitable wheat crops

To uncover what makes for profitable and sustainable crop production.

Birchip Cropping Group
1995 St Arnaud 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 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Feeding sheep

To discuss the feeding of sheep.

Birchip Cropping Group
2008 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Financial viability after drought

To discuss the criteria for financial viability after drought.

Birchip Cropping Group
2006 Bendigo VIC
Research organisaton
Footrot on KI update.

To explore issues of footrot in sheep and goats on Kangaroo Island. 

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
PIRSA
2021 Kangaroo Island SA
Research organisaton
Frogs on farms
  • To determine whether wildlife ponds installed adjacent to existing farm dams in the Wimmera and Southern Mallee channel/dam region can attract and support frogs.
  • To determine whether there is any capacity for frog populations in the Northern Mallee Pipeline region, which may still be dormant in and around old dams, to respond to the addition of water through a wildlife pond and re-occupy these sites.
Birchip Cropping Group
2008 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Frogs on farms

This project is investigating strategies for maintaining frog populations on farms using wildlife ponds.

Birchip Cropping Group
2007 Birchip 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
Fusarium head blight at low levels in the northern grains region in 2016 – cause and implications

 To determine the various causes and to address concerns around fusarium head blight (FHB) infections.

Department of Primary Industries NSW
GRDC
2016 Tamworth Agricultural Institute NSW
Research organisaton
Future strategies for small farmers

To discuss future strategies for small farmers when there is insufficient income to suppor the family from on-farm income.

Birchip Cropping Group
1994 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton