GRDC Grains Research Update – Goondiwindi

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Topics: Tuesday 28 February 2023

• General Plenary
  • Metrics to prove farming system sustainability & secure market access - Trends and timelines? Michael Anderson (Graincorp)
  • Key drivers of short & long-term profitability in different farming systems. Lindsay Bell (CSIRO)
  • Maintaining long term soil fertility - The role of manure, legumes and N fertiliser strategy - lessons from farming systems research. Jon Baird (NSW DPI) & Darren Aisthorpe (DAF Qld)
• Disease
  • Rust in 2023 & beyond. Prof. Robert Park (Plant Breeding Institute)
  • Cereal diseases - what could be done better in 2023?
    • Wheat diseases. Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
    • Barley diseases. Lislé Snyman (DAF Qld)
  • Discussion
• Cropping Outside the Box
  • Companion cropping with wheat & chickpeas. Andrew Erbacher (DAF Qld)
  • Experiences with summer sown chickpeas. Drew Penberthy (Outlook Ag)
  • Advances in the biological control of flax leaf fleabane with a novel rust fungus. Ben Gooden (CSIRO)
  • Silicon in cropping - should we care? Chris Guppy (UNE)
• Pick 'n' Mix
  • Canola in northern farming systems - Varieties, time of sowing, flowering windows, phenology & system legacy impacts. Lindsay Bell (CSIRO) & Jeremy Whish (CSIRO)
  • PhD presentation: Root architecture - Impacts on late season crop development to improve yield & yield stability under water stress.  Jack Christopher for Kanwal Shazadi (UQ)
  • Long coleoptile wheat - Can they deliver a longer sowing window and deeper seeding option? Cameron Silburn (DAF Qld)
  • PhD presentation:  Spatial soil constraint diagnosis using remote sensing & soil data. Fathiyya Ulfa (UQ)
• Mental health & finding system profit
  • Looking after yourself to look after your clients in challenging times. Mary O'Brien (Are you bogged mate?)
  • Finding profit in the face of increasing input costs, interest and land value. Simon Fritsch (Agripath)

Topics: Wednesday 1 March 2023

• Early risers
  • In paddock decision-making on fungicide intervention
    • Interpreting the situation & decision-making for intervention under high inoculum loads.
    • Varietal planning for 2023, disease resistance ratings and mitigating risk

    Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI), Prof. Robert Park (Plant Breeding Institute), Lislé Snyman (DAF Qld), Tim Poole (Poole Ag Consulting) & Hugh Reardon-Smith (Nutrien Ag Solutions)

• Crop protection
  • Fall armyworm impacts by crop, management strategy & resistance. Melina Miles (DAF Qld)
  • Effects of summer crop choice on root lesion nematodes, charcoal rot, AMF & winter crop pathogen levels - farming systems results. Steve Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI) & Andrew Erbacher (DAF Qld)
  • Mice management strategies in the lead up to baiting and optimising bait effectiveness with different levels of background food. Steve Henry (CSIRO)
• Weeds
  • The role & fit of new pre-emergent herbicides. Greg Condon (Grassroots Agronomy)
  • Imazapic & diuron availability & toxicity in different soils. Michael Widderick (DAF Qld)
  • Regulatory needs for green-on-green optical spot sprayers; & herbicide tolerance trait stacking. Rohan Rainbow (Crop Protection Australia)
  • Crop competition effects on weeds & crops - Key trends from six years of research in the northern region. Michael Widderick (DAF Qld)
• Pulses & sustainability
  • Grain farm sustainability. Tim Neale (Data Farming)
    • Can technology help to monetise Australian grain farms sustainability?
    • Are there productivity rewards?
  • Mungbeans - are they a contributor or user of soil N? Implications for nutrition in crop sequences. Doug Sands (DAF Qld)
  • Swathing vs direct heading mungbeans - Pro's and cons. Jayne Gentry (DAF Qld)
  • PhD presentation: Pigeon pea - Temperature, photoperiod & radiation impacts on flowering, biomass & yield in different pigeon pea varieties Mahendraraj Sabampillai (UQ)
• General plenary
  • Future Farm & the potential value in data-driven N decisions Brett Whelan (University of Sydney)
  • 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?
    • How much N do legumes add?
    • A systems approach to N.
  • Panel session, including results from Colonsay long term nutrition site
    • How big have the N losses been in recent years
    • Managing NUE in and after wet to drowning years

    Mike Bell (UQ), Chris Dowling (Back Paddock Co.), Bede O'Mara (Incitec Pivot Fertilisers) & Brett Whelan (University of Sydney)

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