2010 trials

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Can kikuyu improve soil organic carbon levels on Kangaroo Island?

To investigate whether kikuyu improve soil organic carbon levels on Kangaroo Island.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2010 Kangaroo Island SA
Research organisaton
Growing topsoil: is is possible?

To investigate the questions:

  • What if there was a simple way to improve the top soil depth to encourage plants to grow deeper root systems?
  • Could we grow the massive crops you seen grown overseas where they measure top soil in feet not inches?
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2010 SA
Research organisaton
Herbicide resistance levels on Kangaroo Island in 2009

To identify patterns of herbicide resistance levels on Kangaroo Island in 2009.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2010 Kangaroo Island SA
Research organisaton
Improved perennial pastures for Kangaroo Island: an update
  • To investigate perennial pasture for Kangaroo Island.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2010 Playford Hwy SA
Research organisaton
Improving the tolerance of lucerne to soil acidity
  • To report on the development of a rhizobium strain which is able to nodulate with lucerne at lower pH.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2010 Cygnet RIver
Research organisaton
Kikuyu pastures: do they pay?

To investigate the question of whether kikuyu pastures pay.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2010 Parndana SA
Research organisaton
Kikuyu pastures: the quality and quantity

To investigate the quality and quantity of kikuyu pastures.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2010 Hundred of Duncan SA
Research organisaton
Liquid lime versus dry lime: the final update

To investigate a new product on the market - liquid lime- that is being advertised as being faster and more effective than bulk lime.

Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
2010 Kangaroo Island SA
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
Pea inoculum trial
  • To investigate the effect of different types of inoculant on nodulation and yield in field peas grown in KI conditions.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2010 Seddon SA
Research organisaton
Waterlogging trial
  • To look at some agronomic solutions to waterlogging.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2010 Seddon SA
Research organisaton
Wheat variety trial
  • To determine which wheat varieties perform best under local conditions. The trial included a number of bread wheats, but also some noodle and biscuit wheats.
Agriculture Kangaroo Island Incorporated
GRDC
2010 Birchmore SA
Research organisaton
Agronomic adaptions to a changing climate

To trial and demonstrate two possible agronomic adaptations to a changing climate:

  • to sow wheat varieties earlier to reduce the possibility of heat shock events during grain fill whilst taking into account the frost risk, and
  • to sow more than one variety in the one paddock as a mix to ensure that the whole crop is not susceptable to frost and heat shock at the same time.
Birchip Cropping Group
CSIRO GRDC
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Alternative winter pastures

To compare the production of different winter pastures and their recovery from grazing.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC Mallee CMA
2010 Culgoa 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
Break crops for the Mallee

To identify low-risk, profitable break crops for the mallee regions and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Hopetoun VIC
Research organisaton
Break crops pay in the Mallee

To identify low risk, profitable break crops and end-uses for the Mallee region, and quantify their benefits to subsequent wheat crops.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Hopetoun VIC
Research organisaton
Brome grass behaviour and management in the Victorian Mallee

To investigate the germination behaviour and seed dormancy of brome grass populations from the Victorian mallee and provide information on control.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Manangatang VIC
Research organisaton
Canola varieties

To test canola varieties to provide growers with alternative options for controlling weeds.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Cereal cultivars can vary in tolerance to herbicides

To characterise wheat and barley cultivar sensitivities to commonly used herbicides and tank mixes over several growing seasons and highlight potential yield losses resulting from in-corp herbicide use.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Changes in herbicide resistance in western Victoria

To determine the level of herbicide resistance to selective in-crop herbicides in annual ryegrass across western Victoria using random weed surveys.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Horsham VIC
Research organisaton
Chickpea varieties

To identify Desi and Kabuli chickpea breeding lines with improved adaptation and yield in the Wimmera and Mallee region.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Hopetoun VIC
Research organisaton
Conserving moisture during summer

To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect available soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Hopetoun 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
Direct heading versus windrowing

To identify the yield penalty associated with direct heading oilseeds as compared with windrowing, and whether Desikote Max and Reglone negate any losses.

Birchip Cropping Group
BCG members
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Farmer experiences with grazing cereals
  • To assess the ability of conventionally sown Hindmarsh barley crops at Jil Jil and Nullawil to recover from grazing, the effects on straw and grain yield production and on grain quality.
  • To consider the place of early sown feed versus grazing crops in low rainfall farming systems.
Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton
Farming Systems Trial

To compare the yields of crops in the southern Mallee under various farming systmes in 2010.

Birchip Cropping Group
BCG members
2010 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton
Fence-line weeds and glyphosate resistance

To identify weed species that pose the greatest threats to agricultural produciton if incursion an dispersal is allowed to occur from roadsides and fence-lines into farmed land.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Sea Lake VIC
Research organisaton
Fertiliser management on continuous cereal paddocks
  • To verify cereal crop production can be maintained with 0P rates when soil tests advise applying 0P on a range of soil types in a continuous cereal paddock.
  • To test strategic management of N as a long-term approach, compared with the currently recommended 'tactical' method, on a rane of soil types in a continuous cereal paddock.
Birchip Cropping Group
DEPIVic GRDC
2010 Ouyen VIC
Research organisaton
Forage shrubs for alternative grazing systems

To evaluate a range of forage shrubs in the Victorian Mallee environment in terms of plant survival, canopy development, health, edible biomass, seedling recruitment and performance under grazing.

Birchip Cropping Group
DEPIVic GRDC Mallee CMA
2010 Walpeup VIC
Research organisaton
Grain & Graze demonstration

To comare the dry matter production available for forage and plant recovery after grazing of the forage barley variety Moby with that of Hindmarsh barley and Correll wheat.

Birchip Cropping Group
MLA
2010 Nullawil VIC
Research organisaton
Grazing cereals in the Victorian Mallee

To evaluate the suitability of different wheat and barley cultivars for both grazing and grain production, when sown as part of a the normal cropping program in low rainfall zones of western Victoria.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Improving farmer capacity to manage profitability and risk

To evaluate adaptive farm systems using a case study farm and then to develop simple approaches which farmers can use to help their decision making, especially in the fact of continuing uncertain seasons and profit margins.

Birchip Cropping Group
BCG members GRDC
2010 Birchip VIC
Research organisaton
Integrated pest management (IPM)

To give farmers a better understanding of the different pest management tools available and identify which work best in certain circumstances.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2010 Charlton VIC
Research organisaton
Integrated weed management for ryegrass control

To determine the effectiveness of weed seed set control strategies in driving down the seedbank without reducing yields in cereal-intensive cropping systems.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton
Lentil varieties

To provide information about lentil varieties grown in 2010.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Hopetoun VIC
Research organisaton
Long-term phosphorus (P) 2010 report

To assess the long-term impat of a rnage of P fertiliser rates on crop yield and economic returns.

Birchip Cropping Group
BCG members
2010 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton
Long-term phosphorus (P) trial and evaluation of the DGT soil phosphorus test

To assess the long-term impact of a range of P fertiliser rates on crop yield and economic returns

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton
Management of spot form of net blotch in barley using foliar fungicides
Birchip Cropping Group
DEPIVic GRDC
2010 Lubeck VIC
Research organisaton
Native pasture cropping

To develop a regionally viable farming system which incroporates the establishment of native perennial pastures, cropping into native pasture adn rotational grazing of the pasture and stubble.

Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2010 Hopetoun VIC
Research organisaton
Nitrogen management in barley
  • To evaluate the reponse of barley varieties to applied nitrogen rates at sowing.
  • To determine whether varieties repond differently if N is delayed until mid-tillering.
Birchip Cropping Group
GRDC
2010 Lubeck VIC
Research organisaton
Scald management in barley
  • To investigate whether barley varieties vary in their tolerance to scald.
  • To compare different management strategies for controlling scald in different barley varieties.
Birchip Cropping Group
DEPIVic GRDC
2010 Lubeck VIC
Research organisaton
Seed treatments

To compare different seed treatments in wheat for protection against disease and cost effectiveness.

Birchip Cropping Group
BCG members
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Selection of canola lines for low rainfall environment in south eastern Australia

To compare early lines of canola for selection in the districts located around Minnipa (SA), Walpeup (Vic) and Condobolin (NSW).

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Condobolin NSW
Research organisaton
Sowing rates for different canolas

To investigate the effect of sowing rate on yield of hybrid canola varieties compared with open pollinated varieties.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Stem rust control in wheat

To evaluate the efficacy of different foliar fungicides against stem rust in wheat.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Quambatook VIC
Research organisaton
Stripe rust management in wheat

To investigate the feasability of using a low cost 'one-shot' option for the management of stripe rust in a Mallee environment.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Culgoa VIC
Research organisaton
Sulphur and zinc responses in wheat

To measure wheat responses to sulfur and zinc fertiliser when applied in addition to nitrogen and phosphorus.

Birchip Cropping Group
Mosaic
2010 Woomelang VIC
Research organisaton
The importance of summer weed control

To measure the loss of soil water attributed to summer weeds and to quantify the impact of summer weeds on lost production.

Birchip Cropping Group
2010 Jil JIl VIC
Research organisaton