Hyper Yielding Crops and High Rainfall Zone Farming Systems: Annual Field Day – Frankland River

As part of the GRDC’s Hyper Yielding Crops initiative, FAR Australia invites you to come along and view the HYC research trials in canola and cereals at the designated HYC research site established at Frankland River in WA. This collaborative research effort forms part of a wider aim looking to push the yield boundaries of cereal and oilseed cropping across HRZ regions of five states: Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and Western Australia.

As part of a GRDC funded HRZ Farming Systems project in collaboration with DPIRD and CSIRO, FAR Australia also invites you to view cereal research trials addressing whether a combination of earlier sowing superimposed on ameliorated soils allows growers to exploit a “bigger soil bucket”. If it does how will that influence our agronomy? Alternatively does this combination do nothing but increase our costs and reduce our yields?

Also as part of this same project, canola trials have been established to explore options for improved management of canola grown in the high rainfall zone (HRZ). These trials examine options to improve the harvest index (conversion of biomass into yield) of canola crops grown in the HRZ, as well as optimising  nutrition strategies specifically targeted for the HRZ.

More details to follow.

Cost (in AUD$): Free