Nyngan GRDC Grains Research Update Proceedings

Friday 26th February 2016

Click on the title to read the relevant Update Paper.

• Soil water and drivers of fallow efficiency - Brett Cocks and Tony Webster  (CSIRO)
  • Methods and tools to characterise soils for plant available water capacity (Nyngan) - Kirsten Verburg, Brett Cocks, Tony Webster and Jeremy Whish (CSIRO)
    
  • SoilWaterApp – a new tool to measure and monitor soil water - David Freebairn
    
• Canola agronomy - Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  • Canola harvest management in northern NSW: Snapshot from year 1 - Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
    
• Agronomic yield and quality drivers in cereals - an update on Nyngan/Central west agronomy trials to optimise yield: varieties, sowing time, N and P and crown rot - Rick Graham (NSW DPI) (not presented due to speaker illness) (No paper)
  
• GOA nutritional research update - Maurie Street (GOA) (No paper)
• Crown-rot update - Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
  • Yield impact of crown rot on winter cereal crop and variety selection (Nyngan 2015) - 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)
• Cereal N nutrition at Nyngan - Greg Brooke (NSW DPI) (No paper)
• Chasing protein or yield - where is profit optimised? - Panel session: Rick Graham, Maurie Street, Greg Brooke & Breil Jackson
• Barley agronomy for malting grades. Seeding rate, nutrition and agronomy. Also, barley varieties and weed competition. - Rich Graham (NSW DPI) (Not presented due to speaker illness) (No paper)
  
• Rust - what worked, what didn’t and what’s new - Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
• Pushing pulse crop yield in western NSW - Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  • Nutrition in chickpea 2015 (northern NSW pulse agronomy project) - Andrew Verrell and Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
    
  • Faba bean density experiments 2015 (Northern Winter Pulse Agronomy) - Andrew Verrell and Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  • Effect of seed size at sowing on grain yield of PBA Nasma faba bean - Andrew Verrell and 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)
• Effect of chickpea ascochyta on yield of current varieties and advanced breeding lines – the 2015 Tamworth trial VMP15 - Kevin Moore (NSW DPI)
• A new DNA tool to determine risk of chickpea Phytophthora root rot - Sean Bithell (NSW DPI)
• Phytophthora in chickpea varieties HER15 trial –resistance and yield loss - Kevin Moore (NSW DPI)
• Soil acidity - crop yield impacts and management in Central Western NSW - John Small (Central West Farming Systems)
• Implications of dry conditions for the breakdown of residual herbicides - John Cameron (ICAN)