GRDC Grains Research Update Toowoomba 2016

Toowoomba GRDC Grains Research Update Proceedings (PDF 2.6mb)

Tuesday 21st June 2016

Click on the title to read the relevant Update Paper.

• The Wellcamp airport - its strategic role, implications and opportunities for agriculture in inland Southern Queensland. Sara Hales (Wellcamp Airport Communications and Business Development Manager) (No paper)
• Practical applications of digital imaging. Peter Birch (B & W Rural/Satamap) 
• Managing the major mungbean diseases; halo blight, fusarium wilt, tan spot and powdery mildew. Lisa Kelly (DAF Qld) & Sue Thompson (USQ)
  • Management of the major mungbean diseases in Australia. Lisa Kelly (DAF Qld)
  • Fungicide management of mungbean powdery mildew. Sue Thompson (USQ)
• Mungbean agronomy for a profitable crop: plant population, row spacing, time of sowing, water use, varieties, nitrogen fixation and key yield drivers. Kerry McKenzie (DAF Qld)
• Mungbean insects - what’s new – late season mirids, Etiella, scouting. Hugh Brier & Liz Williams (DAF Qld)
• Optimising sorghum genetics and management for targeted situations. How big is the current upside and what might be possible with new genetics? David Jordan & Daniel Rodriguez (QAAFI)
• Minimising nitrogen losses to improve use efficiency in summer crops. Mike Bell (QAAFI)
• Tillage impacts of weed seed burial and subsequent management. Michael Widderick (DAF Qld)
• Grower experience with new planter technology - auto downforce, variable rate seeding.  Is it working, are differences being seen, will the investment pay-off? Dave Peters (grower, Allora) & Dale Jeude (grower, Bowenville) (No paper)
• 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