GRDC Grains Research Update – Forbes

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Friday 24 February 2023

Discuss the latest farm-ready information to improve profit, with researchers, agronomists and leading growers at the Forbes GRDC Grains Research Update.

Topics:

• Optimising control of annual ryegrass. Chris Preston (Uni of Adelaide)
  • Clethodim activity on resistant annual ryegrass in canola
  • Updated herbicide resistance data for central NSW
  • Managing issues with pre-sowing knockdown of glyphosate resistant ryegrass
  • Are we selecting for later germinating ryegrass? What’s the impact on the performance of pre-emergent herbicides?
• Cereal diseases - an autopsy of 2022 & doing better in 2023 Steven Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
  • Seed quality is critical
  • Key disease strategies
  • Crown-rot
  • Fungicide resistance
• Comparing the longer-term profit of different farming systems and legacy impacts across the system. John Kirkegaard (CSIRO) & Mathew Dunn (NSW DPI)
• Pulse agronomy to maximise yield and farming system benefit - 2 years of data on locally relevant soil types.  Maurie Street (GOA)
• Nitrogen - strategies for building the pool and reducing losses. Chris Dowling (Back Paddock Co.)
  • Organic vs different fertiliser N sources
  • Spread urea or drill it in?
  • What does a systems approach look like?
  • How much N do legumes add?
  • Matching N & P
• Pulse manure crops for nitrogen banking – a consultants’ perspective. Peter McInerney (3D Ag)

Cost (in AUD$): $30pp