2006 trials

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

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

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

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

To assess different fungicide timing and dressings for Stripe Rust control on the yield of a number of wheat varieties

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

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

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

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

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 know more about nutrition of stock.

To report on the use of pulses now and in the future.

To draw on this previous work and is testing a ‘best bet’ approach to incorporating OMSB into wheat belt farming systems in NSW.

The Australian Soybean Breeding Program develops varieties for diverse production environments across a 3000 km range from the Atherton Tablelands in far north Queensland (Latitude 17.2661°S, Longitude 145.4859°E) to the Riverina in southern New South Wales (Latitude 29.7503°S, Longitude 120.5530°E).

The program focuses on strategies to broaden the range of adaptation of new cultivars (James & Lawn, 2011), and to complete the transition from traditional dark hilum types that supply lower-value crushing markets to clear hilum types with the grain qualities required for human consumption markets. Advances in yield, disease resistance and other agronomic traits are also targeted.

Primarily, a single seed descent method is used to advance populations to the F4 level of inbreeding. Varieties from the Australian Soybean Breeding Program are not genetically modified (non-GMO). Regional evaluation and selection for environmental adaptation and specific regional traits is carried out across a wide range of environments in the target production regions. Typically, new soybean lines progress through stages of small-scale replicated evaluations for 6–8 seasons, with processors conducting small-scale grain evaluations. Advanced lines then complete evaluation in replicated on-farm experiments before commercial licensing and release.

This paper summarises data from multi-season replicated evaluations and on-farm experiments of RichmondA, a new variety for production in northern New South Wales

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.

To investigate the sustainability and profitability of cropping rotations and tillage methods on Merriwagga soils.

To explore management impacts on wheat grain quality.

To review stripe rust management.

To provide members with local data on the performance of new wheat varieties.

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

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 answer the question: “How much of last year’s super will be available to my crop this year?”

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

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

To assess the effectiveness of a range of soil ameliorants.

Investigating the tolerance of wheat varieties to herbicides

• 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 investigate wheat and canola response to secondary and trace nutrients

To investigate potential long term negative effects on crop yield of interactions between clay spreading or delving with subsoil nutrition (micronutrients).

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

To determine rate and timing of zinc for durum wheat.

1. To evaluate the effectiveness of raised beds in increasing grazing productivity on saline land.
2. To determine if raised beds improve productivity sufficiently enough to justify the cost.
3. To determine if raised beds significantly impede day-to-day management.

To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.

To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.

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

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

To determine if new and existing varieties of wheat vary in tolerance to commonly used herbicides.

To test the impact of adding gypsum, lime or fertilisers to the subsoil of a profile typical for the Vivonne Bay environment but in a situation which usually gets very wet, and is designed to run for at least two years.

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

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