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Lentils: The Ute Guide
01.11.2008This guide is designed to assist in the recognition of symptoms including those of disease, insect attack and poor nutrition in lentil crops, as well as identifying critical issues of best practice in growing and marketing the crop.
Region: National
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Update Paper
RUTHERGLEN BUG, SORGHUM MIDGE AND DIAGNOSING POOR SEED SET IN GRAIN …
28.09.2008Timely action to protect profits from insect pests
Region: National, North, South, West
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Ground Cover Supplement Issue 57 - Grain Hygiene
01.09.2008This issue of Ground Cover Supplement covers what the wheat market wants, livestock need clean grain too, an integrated approach to grain hygiene research, the emergence of strong resistance, coordinated resistance monitoring, improved storage
Region: National, North, Overseas, South, West
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Update Paper
SUBSOIL CONSTRAINTS: IMPACTS OF CROP TYPE, VARIETY AND AGRONOMY ON…
04.08.2008Subsoil constraints to crop production can include one or more of; salinity, sodicity, acidity, nutrient deficiency, element toxicity, gravel layers, compaction and pathogenic biological activity. The main impact on crop yields is a reduction in the
Region: National, North, South, West
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Update Paper
WILD OAT HERBICIDE RESISTANCE - HOW REAL IS THE THREAT?
18.07.2008Highly effective Group A chemistry herbicide options, in both winter cereal and broadleaf crops, have been the primary method of in-crop management of wild oats for more than two decades. However the overuse of these chemicals (often together with a
Region: National, North, South, West
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MANAGING WILD OATS WITH RESISTANCE TO GROUPS A, B & Z.
14.07.2008Peter suspected he had problems with the Group A chemistry about 10-12 years ago. It is possible that the resistant weeds actually turned up in seed that was brought onto farm. He incorporated the use of Clearfield technology into his cropping
Region: National, North, South, West
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WILD OAT MANAGEMENT - NEW OPTIONS FOR OLD CHEMISTRY
14.07.2008Take home message · Results encouraging from both Triflur® Xcel and Avadex® Xtra but NOT silver bullets (will nearly always require a post-emergent clean up) · Similar results from both products where ‘incorporated by sowing’ · No
Region: National, North, South, West
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Investigating adaptation of Australian and CIMMYT wheat germplasm
30.06.2008This is a project summary for GRDC Project CSP00076.Australian wheat breeders have better access to international pools of genetic wheat material suitable for breeding new varieties in Australia. These varieties will help Australian growers remain
Region: National
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Update Paper
Making best use of soil moisture
19.06.2008Prospects for getting crops that yield well during a drought in the sense of greatly exceeding the benchmark of 20 kg/ha/mm are very remote When diagnosing causes of low WUE it helps to dissect WUE into two components: the above-ground biomass/ha
Region: National, North, South, West
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Canola and the acid throttle
18.06.2008Canola is the most acid-sensitive of the major crop species grown on the red soils in south-eastern Australia. These soils are normally limed before sowing canola. This practice has corrected surface acidity but values of subsurface (typically 10-20
Region: National, North, South, West