Investment
Investment
Improving farming systems efficiency in southern NSW
Whole farm profitability can be improved by identifying the agronomic factors that drive profit and adopting management that optimises returns (favouring the value return and mitigating the risk). Growers are under mounting pressure to maintain profitability due to constraints such as herbicide resistance, declining soil fertility, increasing soil-borne pathogens and climatic variability. By employing a farming systems approach, the implications of strategic options (like crop choice, time of sowing and fertiliser requirements) and tactical decisions (like grazing, N topdressing) that a grower might make on farm, will be evaluated across the crop sequence.
Coupling field research, modelling, economic analysis, and benchmarking results with established farm consultants can illustrate where opportunities and risks to system profitability lie. Different farming systems in contrasting environments can be compared for one and/or multiple factors. For example, you can compare kilogram of grain/millimetre of water/hectare between systems, or you can measure impact on diseases, weeds, and nutrition by manipulating cropping frequency. The ability to compare systems across different regions with common metrics is a powerful tool to assist growers to make informed decisions.
- Project start date:
- 11/10/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Cereal Rye, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Triticale, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Organisation
- CSIRO
- Region:
- North
- Project status
- Active
GRDC News
Study measures faba bean link to system...
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Adding faba beans to canola/wheat rotations lifted returns and lowered risk in two southern New...
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Double-break crop sequences prove a winner for...
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Farming systems trials have confirmed the value of double-break crop sequences for cost-effective weed and...
Calculating the nitrogen benefit from legume crops
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Update papers
- 1723557600000, Managing heavy stubble loads without compromising the “big things” - weeds, disease, pests, timeliness and profit! A decade of stubble management & farming systems experiments.
- 1723471200000, Farming system profitability over time – exploring the impact of nitrogen strategy on profit in different farming systems
- 1708347600000, Farming systems profit and risk over time: exploring the N legacy impacts on profit in different farming systems.
- 1707829200000, Farming systems profit and risk over time: exploring the N legacy impacts on profit in different farming systems
- 1690293600000, Managing heavy stubble loads without compromising the “big things” – weeds, disease, pests, timeliness and profit! Experience from a decade of farming systems experiments.
- 1676293200000, Legacy effects and the value of legumes in the farming system after three consecutive wet seasons
- 1676293200000, Farming systems profit and risk over time: the impact of three wet consecutive seasons
- 1644843600000, Farming systems performance at a ‘macro’ scale: effects of management strategies on productivity, profit, risk, WUE