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To answer the question 'Can we manage inputs in-crop that will yield well in a good season whilst also maintaining yields and keeping costs down in poorer seasons?'.
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To estimate in-crop risk management using the Yield Prophet.
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To determine which soil tests and tissue tests could be used to increase the likelihood of profitable responses from the application of nitrogen to wheat.
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To assess grain protein following late applied foliar nitrogen at booting stage in wheat.
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To provide an indication of when stripe rust is likely to affect a particular district, enabling local growers to take measures to protect any unprotected crops before the disease becomes intense.
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To establish the interaction between nitrogen and timing and the need for fungicide management.
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To demonstrate the effects on plant density, nodulation and yield from inoculating legume seed using the correct method, applying inoculum dry and sowing 7 days after inoculating seed.
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To determine whether crop growth and yield responses are likely from inoculating legumes on alkaline clay-loams in the Southern Mallee.
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To provide a calendar as a guide to insect pests that could be expected during each of hte major crop and pasture growing phases.
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To give farmers a bettter understanding of the different pest management tools available and to identify which work bets in certain circumstances.
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To give farmers a better understanding of the different pest management tools available and identify which work best in certain circumstances.
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To determine the effectiveness of weed seed set control strategies in driving down the seedbank without reducing yields in cereal-intensive cropping systems.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To investigate inter row sowing and no-till.
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To look at canopy management and its integration with disease management principles in the different climates of southern Australia.
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To look at canopy management and its integration with disease management principles in the different climates of southern Australia.
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The aim was to investigate the performance of growth regulators in osmoprotectants to counteract the effects of water stress in plants.
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To investigate the effect of water quality on ‘dim’ herbicides, Select and Aramo.
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To investigate the effect that four different nozzle types had on spray efficacy using herbicides with different modes of action.
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To investigate the effect that four different nozzle types had on spray efficacy using herbicides with different modes of action.
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To investigate whether continuous wheat is viable.
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To determine the competitiveness of current and new barley varieties so management packages can be developed for growers to use.
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To investigate the discovery of two Lontrel resistant weed biotypes have been identified (not in Australia).
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To determine whether maintaining stubble cover in low rainfall environments increases summer moisture conservation, and, to establish the minimum stubble quantity or threshold necessary to ensure maximum moisture conservation over the summer.
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To discuss the common questions of are: ‘Is this dry spell a permanent feature? Is it just due to chance? Is it a periodic event?’
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To determine the varietal tolerance of new and current barley varieties to foliar diseases (leaf rust, scald and SFNB).
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To determine whether highly zinc responsive crops such as faba beans and lentils would respond to additional zinc when grown on a paddock which has had a good zinc history.
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To discuss the issues and challenges facing UK farmers.
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To demonstrate the effect of applying K-Komplex liquid fertiliser to a wheat crop.
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To discuss how to keep summer weed control cost effective.
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to investigate the efficacy of knockdown mixes and timings on the control of ryegrass and broadleaf weeds prior to cropping.
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To investigate the effectiveness of the use of different herbicides and spraying regimes prior to sowing in controlling annual ryegrass and to increase grower awareness of rotating the various knockdown options pre-sowing.
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To measure the variation of extractable (labile) P in the crop row and inter row following drought affected cereals in 2006 & to investigate the removal of P in relation to yield.
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To demonstrate the feed value of a forage brassica as spring/early summer grazing option and to measure lamb growth rate performance.
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To measure increases in grain protein in various barley varieties at flowering with different amounts of applied nitrogen.
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To investigate whether ryegrass seed set could be manipulated using alternative harvesting techniques such as windrowing and crop topping.
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To provide results of a legume herbicide tolerance trial.
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To provide quick and easy ways to obtain reliable information in the field for use in the management of legume nitrogen.
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To assess the impact of rhizobial inoculation on the performance of four different legumes: chickpeas, lentils, faba beans and peas in the Victorian Wimmera.
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To answer 'where do lentils fit into a rotation?'
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To determine the best row spacing to optimise lentil production in the Southern Mallee.
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To determine the best sowing rate to optimise lentil production in the Southern Mallee.
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to comment on Botrytis or grey mould and compare it's action in Australia vs Canada.
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To determine the effect of lentil yield of the four most commony used seed treatments.
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To determine whether there are differences in herbicide tolerances between the four most commonly grown lentil varieties: Digger, Cobber, Northfield and Matilda.
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To determine differences in herbicide tolerances between the four most commonly grown lentil varieties - the red types: Digger, Cobber, Northfield; and the green type: Matilda.
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To investigate sowing time and fungicide management aimed at optimising lentil production.
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To investigate the best time for rolling lentils. This it to ensure that the paddock surface is in a state suitable for harvest whilst miniising the imnpact of rolling operation on the crop.
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To investigate the most effective time to roll lentils to leave the paddock in a state suitable for harvest whilst minimising the impact of the rolling operation on the crop. The trial was performed under dry- and wet-sown conditions.
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To determine the optimum sowing date(s) and sowing rate(s) for new lentil cultivars.
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To determine safe and effective techniques for using Trifluralin and Lexone in Digger lentils.
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To determine safe and effective techniques for using Trifluralin, Simazine and Lexone in lentils.
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To determine the optimum sowing rate and time of sowing for Digger lentils in the Southern Mallee.
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To (over a number of years and different seasons) determine the optimum sowing time of lentils (Digger).
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To provide information about lentil varieties grown in 2010.
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To investigate yields of various lentils established across Victoria by Pulse Breeding Australia and the National Variety Testing program.
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CIPAL aims to improve lentil profitability in Australia by developing red and green varieties that are resistant to major diseases (ascochyta blight and botrytis grey mould) and soil constraints (boron, salt and waterlogging), and have improved havestability. CIPAL also aims to develop varieties that have new sources of resistance to current dis… read more
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To investigate the effects of soil type and climate on the yield of commercial varieties and advanced breeding lines in Victoria and thereby assist in the selection of superior varieties fro farmers in this state.
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To conduct a lentil variety evaluation.
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To compare the performance of current and potential new lentil varieties under low rainfall Mallee conditions.
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To compare the performance of current and potential new lentil varieties in the Mallee and Wimmera regions of Victoria.
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To provide information regardin the most important selection criteria (grain yield, disease resistance, maturity, standing ability, shattering and seed type/quality) for a number of lentil varieties.
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To discuss lentil varieties.
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To discuss the best lentil varieties to minimise Ascochyta blight losses.
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To investigate the adaptability of a range of new lentil varieties and variety mixes to varying sowing dates, identify levels of tolerance to a range of group B herbicides in several breeding lines of lentils which have been selected from the Pulse Breeding Australia breeding program for improvements in tolerance to imidazolinone herbicides.
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To investigate the metribuzin tolerance of a new wheat variety from WA (Eaglerock) and compare it to Yitpi .
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On sandy soils in the Mallee to test the efficiency of granular versus liquid P fertilisers and determine the impact of zinc and copper on crop performance.
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To determine whether the fluid product technical grade mono-ammonium phosphate (TGMAP) is more efficient than the granular formulation MAP. The trial also investigates the addition of micronutrients Zinc and Copper.
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To investigate the effects of grazing livestock in no-till paddocks on soil structure, soil compaction and soil moisture, weed seed burial and carbon/nitrogen cycling in no-till farming systems.
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To investigate the effects of grazing livestock in no-till paddocks on soil structure, soil composition and soil moisture, weed seed burial and carbon/nitrogen cycling in no-till farming systems.
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To address a number of issues when there is a clear indication that an April break is not going to occur.
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To assess the long-term impat of a rnage of P fertiliser rates on crop yield and economic returns.
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To assess the long-term impact of a range of P fertiliser rates on crop yield and economic returns
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To assess the implications of different P fertiliser rates on crop growth and profitability over time.
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To identify the most economical rate of phosphorus usage in a southern Mallee cropping system over time.
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To establish the most economical rate of phosphorus usage in a southern Mallee cropping systems over time.
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To determine the most economical rate of phosphorus (P) in a southern Mallee cropping system over time.
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To ascertain the long-term benefits in crop growth and profitability as a result of regular phosphorus (P) applications.
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To assess a long-term phosphorus/nitrogen interaction trial.
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To conduct an on-farm canola demonstration.
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To conduct a lucerne establishment trial.
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To assess the impact of different establishment techniques on lucerne plant densities.
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To comment on Lucerne performance in the southern Mallee.
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To discuss fertiliser decisions after a drought year in the Wimmera and Mallee.
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To discuss making fertiliser decisions: does topdressing nitrogen results in higher screenings?
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To investigate how to make the grade for malting barley.
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To demonstrate how managing paddock stubble load and weed burden (paddock surface conditions) during summer can affect subsequent crop yield.
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To extend work carried out in 2003 (converting rainfall into dollars) and investigate the effect of rainfall on farm gross income in the southern Mallee and Wimmera.
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To evaluate the yield performance of milling oat varieties, and the grazing value, hay and grain yield of grazing-hay oat varieties in the southern Mallee.
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The aim of this trial was to assess whether controlled traffic would be practical on Mallee farms
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To investigate alternative break crop sequences and cereal herbicide control options that can increase profitability and reduce brome grass populations in the Mallee.
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To provide an update for Mallee wheat results update from 2008.
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To compare wheat variety trial results in the Mallee region for the year 2000.
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To evaluate the response of different barley varieties to various management aspects of no-till farming systems. Variables examined include row spacing, pre-emergent herbicides and nitrogen timing.