2006 trials

To determine responses to Super Phos, Potash and Lime in a pasture wheat rotation over 5 years.

• 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 determine how time of sowing influences fungicide spray requirements in Nura, Farah and Fiesta faba beans.
• To compare the tolerance of faba bean varieties (Nura, Farah and Fiesta) to Spinnaker herbicide, at early and late sowing.

To test the yield response of new varieties of faba beans to changes in plant populations across the different farming systems (irrigated and dryland) of southern NSW.

To look at the yield response of new faba bean varieties to varying row spacing and plant populations.

To test the yield response of new varieties and advanced lines of field pea to changes in plant populations across the different field pea growing regions of NSW

To look at the yield responses of different field pea plant types to varying row spacing.

To recommend agronomic and fungicide management strategies to minimise botrytis grey mould infections and maximum grain yield and quality in the new lentil varieties.

To test the yield response of current and newly released lentil varieties to changes in plant populations and sowing dates in the main lentil growing regions of SA.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

To investigate the effectiveness of elemental sulphur in canola, what percentage of the applied sulphur can be applied as fine (less than 250 micron) elemental sulphur without loss of grain yield or oil content.

To evaluate the cost effectiveness of strobilurin based fungicides on barley in the different climatic regions of southern Australia.

To assess dual purpose wheat, barley, triticale and oat varieties for DM production, recovery from grazing and grain yield. Given that cereals have different rates of DM production, 

To determine optimum sowing times for the various field pea varieties in the HRZ.

To examine the interaction of Nitrogen management with disease management in winter barley Inverleigh

To quantify how “upfront” nitrogen application versus application at stem elongation (GS 30-31) influences the need for disease control in varieties of differing disease resistance.

To investigate Stubble Management Systems to Reduce Dependence on Burning in the HRZ Region of Southern Australia.

To investigate the benefits of specialty nitrogen products and liquid nitrogen options in cereals

To investigate emerging grain legume inoculant technologies.

To investigate the benefits of specialty phosphorus products and liquid phosphorus
options in cereals

To determine the least cost foliar fungicide application method to maximise the potential of achieving milling grade oats for south west Victoria.

This experiment aimed at trialling some of the products which may have benefited a plant‟s capacity to fight diseases, rather than treating the infection itself.

To evaluate the most profitable pulse varieties and their associated resistance to diseases faced in the higher rainfall zone of southern Australia.

To determine the influence of cultivar resistance on the cost effectiveness of upfront disease control, such as seed treatment/in furrow treatments as opposed to later season control based on foliar fungicides.

• To assess the potential yield losses when increasing the seed row width for the benefits of subsequent inter-row (no-till) cropping;
• To determine if nitrogen application efficiency can be increased in wider row spacing by applying product in a linear manner.

This demonstrations was conducted for three significant reasons.

• 1. Assess the potential yield losses when increasing the seed row width for the benefits of subsequent inter-row (no-till) cropping;
• 2. Determine if nitrogen application efficiency can be increased in wider row spacing scenarios by applying product either up front or in crop;
• 3. Assess the varietal response to row spacing width to determine yield in response to nitrogen timing and row widths.

• To gain an indication of the distribution of some beneficial species across the region.
• To gain an appreciation of what beneficial species occur in the different ecosystems.
• To investigate the potential role of native grasslands in assisting to control pests in agricultural crops and pastures

To determine the relationship between nitrogen rate and the need for disease control in winter wheat in the high rainfall zone environment of Tasmania.

To further compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material.

To investigate the use of water storage crystals as a means of increasing plant available water (PAW) during the grain fill period.

This trial is part of a series of experiments evaluating a number of varieties that may be suitable throughout south west Victoria.