GRDC Grains Research Update Gilgandra 2016

Gilgandra Grains Research Update proceedings (2.3 Kb PDF)

Wednesday 20th July 2016

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• Frost. Jack Christopher (QAAFI)
• How much do high stubble loads effect frost risk in pulses? Andrew Verrell (NSW DPI)
• New developments in canola harvest management. Maurie Street (GOA) & Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
  • GOA investigates Canola desiccation and direct heading and PodGuard canola. Maurie Street (GOA)
    
  • Canola harvest management in northern NSW a Snapshot of results from Year 1. Leigh Jenkins (NSW DPI)
    
• A new strain of wheat leaf rust.  Potential impacts, which varieties and what to look for. Adult plant resistance and rust management decision making. Robert Park (Uni of Sydney PBI, Cobbitty)
• Chickpea and faba bean disease update. Kevin Moore (NSW DPI)
  • Effect of chickpea ascochyta on yield of current varieties and advanced breeding lines – the 2015 Tamworth trial VMP15
  • New ascochyta and botrytis grey mould advice for 2016 for chickpeas
  • Chickpeas what we learnt in 2015 and recommendations for 2016
• How much can pulse agronomy affect the amount of nitrogen fixed? Nikki Seymour (DAF Qld)
• Improving nitrogen use efficiency in cropping systems. Graeme Schwenke (NSW DPI)
• Super cool results - achieving great results with silo aeration and silo recirculation systems as an aid to fumigation. Philip Burrill (DAF Qld)
• Investment in on-farm grain storage and the grain supply chain. Andrew Freeth (Nuffield Scholar 2015, Collie NSW)
• Harvest weed seed capture systems in the northern region. Experience with the Harrington Seed Destructor and the Chaff Deck system for weed tramlining. Michael Walsh (University of Sydney)
• Fallow management of grass weeds - button grass and feathertop Rhodes grass. Richard Daniel (NGA)