GRDC Grains Research Update Coonabarabran 2016

Coonabarabran 2016 proceedings booklet

General Plenary Day 1

• Coupling pre-emergent herbicides & crop competition for big reductions in weed escapes - Chris Preston (University of Adelaide)
• Characterising soils for plant available water capacity - methods, tools, accuracy & drivers of fallow efficiency - Brett Cocks & Kirsten Verburg (CSIRO)
• Drivers of fallow efficiency: Effect of soil properties and rainfall patterns on evaporation and the effectiveness of stubble cover - Brett Cocks & Kirsten Verburg (CSIRO)
• Calculating water use efficiency in the northern region - should evaporation losses be deducted? - Andrew Verrell (NSW DPI) (No paper)
• Driving the new soil water app - David Freebairn
• Commonly asked questions about soil water and soil management - David Freebairn
• Improving fallow efficiency - David Freebairn 
• GOA – key outcomes & engagement - Maurie Street (GOA)

Frost & cereal agronomy concurrent session

• Field ready frost research for central NSW & the Liverpool Plains - Richard MacCallum (NSW DPI)
• Wheat, yield & quality drivers - Greg Brooke (NSW DPI) (No paper)
• Durum agronomy - Loretta Serafin (NSW DPI) (No paper)
• Frost risk, date of flowering, yield, temperature change - matching varieties to elevation in the same paddock - Matt Gardner (AMPS) (No paper)

Canola, pulses & insects concurrent session

• Matching canola variety to sowing date & yield expectation -  Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI) (No paper)
• Pushing pulse crop yield - Andrew Verrell & Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  
  • Nutrition in chickpea 2015 (northern NSW pulse agronomy project) - Andrew Verrell & Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  • Faba bean density experiments 2015 (Northern Winter Pulse Agronomy) - Andrew Verrell & Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  • Effect of seed size at sowing on grain yield of PBA Nasma faba bean - Andrew Verrell & Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  • Is chickpea on chickpea worth it? - Kevin Moore (NSW DPI)
  • Chickpeas: What we learnt in 2015 and recommendations for 2016 - Kevin Moore (NSW DPI)
  • Chickpea Ascochyta: latest research on variability and implications for management - Kevin Moore (NSW DPI)
  • Phytophthora in chickpea varieties HER15 trial – resistance and yield loss - Sean Bithel et al. (NSW DPI)
  • A new DNA tool to determine risk of chickpea Phytophthora root rot - Sean Bithell (NSW DPI)
• Aphids & new research on other insects - Melina Miles (DAF Qld)

Nematodes & soil health concurrent session

• Nematodes - “If you know nematode numbers at harvest, we can predict how long it takes for them to decline to less than 2K/kg” - Jeremy Whish (CSIRO)
• Soil health, biology, diseases & sustainable agriculture - links between soil properties & plant health - Graham Stirling (Biological Crop Protection)
• Herbicide impacts on soil biology - a multi-state & year study & review of literature - Lukas van Zwieten (NSW DPI)

General Plenary Day 2

• “Big data is lots of small data in a common platform” Managing big data in grain production - new opportunities & challenges - Mark Pawsey (SST Software Australia)
• Using remote data sources to improve agronomic management - Ben Boughton (Nuffield Scholar & CEO Satamap)
• Understanding & managing N loss pathways - Mike Bell (QAAFI) & Graham Schwenke (NSW DPI)
• Rust - what worked, what didn't & what's new - Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)

Crown-rot & weeds concurrent session

• Crown-rot research - Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
  
  • Crown rot – does cereal crop or variety choice matter? - Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
  • Do seed treatments have a place with crown rot - Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
  • Integrated management of crown rot in a chickpea – wheat sequence - Andrew Verrell (NSW DPI)
• GOA weeds research - Maurie Street (GOA)
• Non-herbicide tactics - row orientation & crop competition - Greg Brooke (NSW DPI) (No paper)
• Adviser experience managing glyphosate resistant ryegrass - Peter McKenzie (Agricultural Consulting & Extension Services) (No paper)
• Weeds discussion: Sequencing tactics; will costs send growers broke; issues with increased use of pre-m herbicides; effecting change (No paper)

P&K, day degrees & dual purpose crops concurrent session

• P & K nutrition - Mike Bell (QAAFI) & Rick Graham (NSW DPI)
• Day degrees for crop management - Jeremy Whish (CSIRO)
• Optimising productivity in dual-purpose crops - new tool to help manage lock-up & other decisions - John Kirkegaard (CSIRO)
• Panel session - the pros & cons of dual purpose crops - Keith Harris & John Kirkegaard (CSIRO), Bob Freebairn & Andrew McFadyen 
  
  • Dual purpose crops (Keith Harris)
  • Profitable dual purpose cereals in the north and central west (A Purlewaugh case study) (Bob Freebairn)

Soil water concurrent session

• Profit from better soil water decisions - closing the yield gap workshop - Simon Fritsch & Peter Wylie (AgriPath)