2017 trials

To assess the yield response to deep ripping depth on a productive sand plain near Kojaneerup, WA.

To asses the effect of PGR application on barley

To assess the yield response in barley, canola and lupins to deep ripping over a three year period (2015 – 2017) near Broomehill, WA.

To test the ability of Yield Prophet to predict wheat yield.

To evaluate the impact from Spot Form of Net Blotch on barley yield.

To evaluate the impact from Spot Form of Net Blotch on barley yield.

This was the second year of a three-year trial, funded by the South Australian Grains Industry Trust (SAGIT), to evaluate the nitrogen fixation capabilities of various legume species commonly grown on Kangaroo Island.

In this second year, the trial was set up to answer the following questions:

• Which of the four legume species had fixed the most nitrogen (N) in the 2016 season?
• How much N did these legume crops fix?
• How much of the N fixed by the legume was utilised by the following crop? Concurrently, how much N was lost through leaching or denitrification?

Can cover crops increase infiltration and net water accumulation in pivot-irrigated cotton systems with low (<30%) ground cover?

To report on Alan’s aim to lime 20% of the farm each year and reprot that now, five years later, that aim is just about achieved. 

To conduct a wheat/durum variety trial.

To conduct wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To conduct a wheat variety trial.

To evaluate wheat variety response to Urea timing and method of application.

To evaluate wheat variety response to Urea timing and method of application.

To compare nitrogen rate responses between Wheat varieties.

To compare nitrogen rate responses between wheat varieties.

To study the effect of elevated temperature, sowing time, variety, and N rate on wheat yield.

To report on the Paxton's efforts to “to keep the soil pH above 5, we know if we don’t, we start losing production”. 

To investigate the use of different sowing timings and N management to improve yield and maintain protein of wheat.

• To evaluate the benefit of deep ripping on two different compacted sandy loams with varying subsoil acidity.
• To evaluate the value of inclusion plates in slotting lime to the subsoil
• Evaluate the longevity of the response and returns over multiple seasons and crop rotations

To share Tim Buck's story about using technology to make better farming decisions.

A winter wheat trial was established to assess the whole-season nitrogen (N) availability against different nitrogen placement strategies when subject to waterlogging.

To compare the competitive ability of new and existing barley varieties in the presence and absence of weeds.

To compare and showcase the broad range of strategic tillage options for amelioration of yellow sandplain soils and to assess their effectiveness at overcoming a range of soil constraints including non-wetting soil surface, compaction and subsoil acidity and increasing crop productivity.

A demonstration site to compare different seeding machinery in tough conditions and through a range of soil types.

To economically rebuild many of the characteristics of a soil that will improve the viability of the farming system in this dry land cropping enterprise.

To assess the influence of sowing date and species phenology on yield dynamics of barley, oats and wheat in frost conditions

To determine if differences in early crop growth and development of crops under different stubble management strategies was due to differences in early-season nitrogen (N) supply.

To determine the effect of common district nutrition packages in Merredin on crown rot index (incidence x severity) of wheat and barley varieties.

To investigate the dynamics of N in stubble-retained systems. 

To determine the optimum sowing date, phenology and nitrogen management to optimise grain yield within the Central West region of NSW. These combinations were tested across two contrasting scenarios: irrigation versus dryland.

To report on the Stanton's “current strategy to set up a rotation of liming approximately one fifth of the total land base or about 300ha per year to assist in budgeting".

Assess the yield impact of different summer spray application timings at four trials in March 2017, following a widespread summer rainfall event.

Farming systems projects funded by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) are assessing ways to improve the use of our total rainfall, with the aim of achieving 80% of the water and nitrogen-limited yield potential in our cropping systems.

To investigate yield responses to subsoil amelioration treatments.

To determine the nutrient loss from stubbles of various crop types following summer rainfall.

The demonstrate the effects of increasing N fertiliser rates on harvest index and stubble N%.

To determine how long statice persists in the seedbank and to investigate the effect of crop and fallow rotations on statice control.

This project will provide information on within-paddock variation in soil pH and related soil properties, in different regions of the High Rainfall Zone (HRZ).  To do this, we will map the horizontal and vertical variations in soil pH across 10 cropping paddocks in the Victorian HRZ. This will demonstrate to farmers how soil pH varies spatially and the economic benefits of targeting management of soil acidity to different zones within each paddock.