2006 trials

To comment on the year that was 2006.

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

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

To determine if DGT could predict P fertiliser requirements for the field and to compare results from the DGT soil P test with other common soil P testing techniques (Colwell P and resin).

To discuss agronomic practices – frost risk rankings table.

Two experiments were conducted as a follow-up to previous SFS trials, to test whether deep ripping with various organic amendments could lead to water storage deep in the soil profile and therefore extra water provision during grain fill.

To evaluate commercially available Foliar applied stubble breakdown products.

To assess the level of input required to maximise yields of barley grown after wheat.

To evaluate tolerance of barley to acid and aluminium toxicity.

This trial is one of many looking at grain yield and quality across a range of existing and new varieties. The trial also examined the effect of foliar fungicide on barley yield and grain quality.

This research aims to evaluate all new varieties in the NVT program.

To evaluate thirty barley breeding lines from the Tasmanian breeding program.

To conduct a barley variety trial.

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?

• To evaluate the benefit of yield and pod development from the introduction of bees and the management of the pollination process.

To discuss canola variety selection for 2007.

The aim of the trial is to evaluate a number of commercially available and near release canola varieties that could be suitable growing in south west Victoria.

To evaluate which cereal species and variety will produce the most early feed.

• To compare disease management strategies for minimum fungicide input and maximum grain yield and quality of new chickpea varieties.
• To demonstrate the much improved levels of ascochyta blight disease resistance in new varieties of chickpeas to SA growers.

To test the yield response of new varieties and advanced lines of chickpeas to changes in plant populations in southern NSW.

To look at the yield response of new chickpea varieties to varying row spacing.

To test the yield response of new varieties of chickpeas and faba beans to different sowing times in southern
NSW.

To evaluate chickpea varieties.

To evaluate new and existing chickpea varieties.

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

To determine if yield differences can be achieved between a crop seeded in a north-south direction compared to an east-west direction.

To investigate the effect on wheat yield between applications of a gypsum/dolomite mix, high-cal product and lime, and also to compare the long term effects the three products have on soil acidity

To compare the effect of different stubble treatments on crop establishment, growth, grain yield and quality over a three year timeframe.

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

To quantify the relative effects of different mechanisms of zinc efficiency in bread wheat.

To compare previous best bet herbicide treatments with newer herbicides such as Affinity, Precept, Conclude, Torpedo and Velocity on the control of bifora.

To compare the effect of different pre-emergent herbicides applied pre sowing and post sowing on wheat
establishment and ryegrass control and to specifically improve the control of ryegrass in the crop row.

To assess the ryegrass control ability of crop rotation, in combination with pre- and post- emergent herbicides.

To assess the financial consequences of changing farming systems and inputs, specifically investigating the impact of changing break crop type and reduced fertiliser inputs on subsequent wheat yields and longer term profitability.

To test if wheat can be successfully grown after wheat and canola and to assess if wheat was the best crop to grow.

To investigate the effect of crop topping cereals for annual ryegrass control with nonselective herbicides.

• To determine the interaction of nitrogen timing and dose with plant population in terms of yield, crop structure, predisposition to lodging and quality in the high rainfall zone.
• To determine the influence of nitrogen applied at stem elongation versus up front nitrogen on soil moisture content and dry matter production.

• To determine the interaction of nitrogen timing and dose with plant population in terms of yield, crop structure, predisposition to lodging and quality in the high rainfall zone.
• To determine the influence of nitrogen applied at stem elongation versus up front nitrogen on soil moisture content and dry matter production.

To develop agronomic packages and seeding technology solutions which can allow for increased stubble retention practices, thereby reducing the dependence on burning.

To investigate the effectiveness of fungicides regimes for controlling net blotch and powdery mildew of barley.

To look at the effectiveness of grinding our local limesands and comparing the changes in soil pH against unground lime.

To evaluate a number of dual purpose wheat varieties at two different sowing times.

To evaluate early maturing barley varieties.

To examine the effect of fodder cuts on grain yield of early sown wheat and triticale – Perth Tasmania

To examine the impact grazing at different stages of growth would have on dry matter, grain yield and stubble yield post harvest.
 
 

To quantify the drymatter potential of seven long season cereal crops before stem elongation is reached and to determine the impact on grain yield if heavy grazing occurs at GS31.

• To compare a commercial plant density for dual purpose and grain-only production with reduced rates comparable to that used for early sowing in the UK. A further aim of this study was to compare grain yields of early sown wheat with that sown at a more traditional time, May.
• The potential of early sown wheat and triticale for production of silage was also assessed.

To develop a means of enhancing stubble breakdown using nutrient and microbial supplements prior to planting of the next crop.

To test the effectiveness of the two different forms of nitrogen, two nitrogen timings and two nitrogen dressings on yield and grain quality.