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The technical objective is to develop PGP traits that:
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To assess the impact of commercially available seed treatments on wheat yield and quality.
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To assess a number of farmer owned and modified seeders for direct drilling.
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To drill 6kg/ha canola seed, plus 110 kg/ha MAP and 100 kg/ha urea.
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To report on the SFS seeder demonstration.
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To determine whether raised beds would assist in waterlogging control and give higher crop returns.
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To assess grain quality, yield and suitability to the South West of Victoria.
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To investigate the effects of delaying nitrogen application until GS31 on grain yield and quality by using differing nitrogen application rates across a range of popular malt and feed barleys.
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To determine whether sowing date can influence the yield and quality of malt and feed barley varieties.
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To report on an experiment at Inverleigh, Victoria, investigating the potential for earlier sowing to increase wheat yields in the face of autumn rainfall decline.
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To determine the effect of sowing rate, nitrogen fertiliser rate and timing on wheat and barley crop establishment, tiller production, head counts at harvest, grain yield and grain quality.
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To evaluate the performance of chick peas, faba beans, lupins and field peas under a spring sowing regime.
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To compare several field pea, vetch, canola, triticale, oat, barley and wheat varieties for dry matter production and feed value. A further trial was included to determine the optimal densities of field pea/oat mixtures.
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To investigate the suitability as chickpeas as a spring sown crop in the high rainfall zone.
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To look at the potential yield of commonly grown varieties of barley and wheat sown in September, whilst comparing some different management strategies that might be adopted when sowing this late in the season:
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To identify whether there is an advantage in using deep ripping or shallow cultivation compared to direct drill to improve the ability of crops to utilize soil water at depth.
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To identify whether deep ripping and other soil treatments will result in an increase in spring water use by crops and therefore increased yields and improved grain quality.
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To identify whether there is an advantage in using deep ripping or shallow cultivation compared to direct drill to improve the ability of crops to utilize soil water at depth.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for the growing conditions of southern Victoria. This trial differs from other comparative crop variety testing in that it evaluates the varieties with a fungicide programme; to determine the yield response of the varieti… read more
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for the growing conditions in south east Victoria.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for the growing conditions of southern Victoria.
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To investigate the optimum nitrogen required for a high yielding canola crop based on a deep soil nitrate test.
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All four trials were aiming to evaluate what alternative stubble retention practices can be implemented into the cropping system, without
incurring yield penalty or significant cost to the grower.
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To report on subsoil manuring: an innovative approach to addressing subsoil problems targeting higher water use efficiency in southern Australia.
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To look at the technology, the resulting productivity increases and the economics of the practice of subsoil manuring.
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To investigate the effect of two different methods of surface drainage ('raised beds' and 'hump and hollows') of pasture compared to an undrained control treatment on farm productivity and the potential impact on the environment.
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To test the hypothesis that "drainage of waterlogged soils in southwest Victoria through raised beds will increase crop and pasture production with beneficial modifications to soil properties".
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To investigate the possible yield and quality differences between various milling quality wheats of differening maturities in the Hamilton District.
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To assess cultural control practices in combination with pre-emergent herbicides for the management resistant ARG at the Lake Bolac research site.
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To develop profitable and sustainable farming systems for the high rainfall regions of Southern Australia.
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To compare the performance of crops on raised beds versus strategic field drainage.
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To identify additional lines with maturity between the spring and winter types by evaluating new canola lines not commercially available to growers which were supplied by six seed companies.
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To determine the impact of grazing on soil condition and weed populations. This report is on findings after two years of grazing.
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To determine the impact of grazing on soil condition and weed populations. This report is on findings after two years of grazing.
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To test the effect of nitrogen timing application method on white wheat yield protein in high rainfall environments.
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To investigate the nodulation and yield response of Faba beans to higher rates of rhizobia inoculation.
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To assess the effect of sowing date on grain yield and quality for some recently released commercial lines along with some experimental lines that could be commercially available within the next 2 years.
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To demonstrate the pros and cons of different stubble/ soil management and establishment treatments.
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To evaluate delivery systems for zinc and zinc requirement in high rainfall zones.
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To reports on the results of our “best bet” approach to making grazing canola work in our unique region.
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To examine the interaction between various combinations of nitrogen, sowing rate and grazing to maximise drymatter production and see what impact this has on grain yield and quality and stubble mass post harvest.
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To examine the livestock benefits and impacts on cereal yield and stubble aftermath by grazing.
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To determine the relationship between nitrogen rate and the need for disease control in winter wheat in the high rainfall zone environment of Tasmania.
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To determine the relationship between nitrogen rate and the need for disease control in winter wheat in the high rainfall zone environment of Tasmania.
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To determine the optimal timing for the application of foliar fungicides for disease control in wheat.
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To examine how two different plant populations and five different nitrogen timings influence the structure, yield and quality of the barley crop canopy in a 1st cereal situation after the break crop.
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To examine how two different plant populations and five different nitrogen timings influence the structure, yield and quality of the barley crop canopy in a first cereal situation.
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To investigate the possible yield response in wheat to zinc and copper on the lighter soils in the Cavendish area.
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To assess different management strategies for blackleg, while assessing Prosaro as the only foliar in crop option in canola for blackleg management.
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To evaluate a number of breeder's lines with commercial varieties to determine the most suitable triazine tolerant lines for the high rainfall zone in the south west.
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To determine the suitabiiyt of 10 commercial and experimental 'early flowering' triticale lines with possible suitability to the Geelong environment.
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To further compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material.
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To further compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material.
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To compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material with stripe rust resistance.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for the growing conditions in the south east of Victoria.
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To evaluate a number of varieties that are either commercially available or close to commercial release that may be suitable for growing conditions in the south east of Victoria.
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To compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new material with stripe rust resistance.
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To evaluate a number of commercially available triticale varieties for yield and grain quality.
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To further compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material.
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To further compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material.
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To further compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material.
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The aim of this trial was to further compare existing triticale varieties and evaluate new breeding material.
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To report on sowing times on heads of spring-sown canola and wheat.
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To evaluate whether TwinN could enable reductions in urea rates without loss of yield in wheat in the medium-high rainfall Victorian wheat region.
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To quantify the effects of ProGibb on dry matter production of dual purpose wheat and to assess the effects on subsequent plant recovery and wheat grain yield.
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To investigate the feasibility of utilising image data, collected using UAVs, to make timely management decisions relating to slug damage in emerging canola.
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To provide the farmers with calcareous soils that were P retentive, with an alternative to P fertilisers which were continually becoming locked-up, as well as an economical and effective method for the application of these fertilisers
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To demonstrate the effectiveness of two types of surface applied organic amendments – compost and chicken manure.
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To investigate the use of water storage crystals as a means of increasing plant available water (PAW) during the grain fill period.
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To examine the effect of plant growth regulators, in the form of Moddus and Chlormequat on the plant biomass, water use and plant growth in wheat.
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To help understand the yield penalties we can expect if good pH levels are not maintained and how
frequently lime needs to be applied.
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To assess different interrow spacing widths using five different sowing treatments.
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To determine the effect of sowing rate and nitrogen fertiliser timing on crop canopy development, grain yield and grain quality.
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To test 6 commercial wheat varieties.
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To evaluate a range of milling and feed wheats of differing maturities and disease resistance under broad acre farmer sown plots.
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To verify the performance of the currently susceptible cultivar Chara, in higher rainfall conditions and to assess various application timings of fungicide to minimise the impact of the WA pathotype of stripe rust, that seems to have maintained virulence throughout eastern Australia.
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To provide advice to breeders, researchers, agronomists and growers on the plant characteristics suited to the HRZ.