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Research Articles

2018

Studies

  • National Paddock Survey – closing the yield gap and informing decisions

Break Crops

  • Nitrogen Requirement for Hybrid (43Y92) and OP (Stingray) canola in low rainfall
  • Pulses in the Mallee - 2018
  • Lentil herbicide management in southern low rainfall environments
  • Break crop production in southern low rainfall environments

Cereals

  • Drivers of flowering time in durum

Soils & Nutrition

  • Nitrogen Requirement for Hybrid (43Y92) and OP (Stingray) canola in low rainfall
  • Options to Manage Underperforming Mallee Sands- SA Mallee Trials
  • National Paddock Survey – closing the yield gap and informing decisions
  • “Ripping” results from Mallee Sandy Soils trials
  • Impact of claying in decile 1 rainfall year

Weed's & Herbicides

  • Monitoring barley grass in broad acre paddocks
  • Lentil herbicide management in southern low rainfall environments

Pastures

  • Evaluating new legume pasture options for mallee mixed farming

2016

Studies

  • Evaluation of LANDSAT satellite NDVI images to define management zones for cereal cropping in the northern Mallee

Break Crops

  • Canola Responded to Nitrogen Fertiliser Input across the Dune-Swale at Karoonda in 2016
  • Comparing break crop performance in the SA Mallee
  • Low cost annual pasture legumes for sandy soils
  • Pulses in the Mallee 2016
  • SAGIT Vetch trials in 2016

Cereals

  • Gibberellic acid and grazing in oats
  • Grazing and row spacing effect on barley
  • Nitrogen cycling in cereal stubble management systems
  • Overdependence on Agrichemicals – UNFS 2016 Barley Grass Trial
  • Rhizoctonia bare patch disease inoculum build-up in different cereal crops and varieties
  • Combined nitrogen inputs from lupin stubble and fertiliser improves wheat productivity on sands

Soils & Nutrition

  • Effect of fertiliser sown with wheat seed on Mallee soils
  • Mallee dune seepage – an opportunity or land degradation?
  • Managing nutrition on sandy soils – yield gains from Zn and N

Weed's & Herbicides

  • Brome grass behaviour & management
  • Herbicide efficacy in retained stubble systems
  • Identifying new pre-emergent herbicide options for brome grass
  • Testing crop row placement and pre-emergence herbicide options for brome grass on Mallee sand

2017

Livestock & Forage

  • Virtual fencing as a future tool for Mallee farmers

Break Crops

  • Pulses in the Mallee 2017
  • Managing the Risk of Canola Production in Low Rainfall Environments
  • Identifying the most productive and profitable break crop options for the LRZ
  • Crop Sequencing Considerations for the Mallee
  • Break crop options for the low rainfall zone

Cereals

  • Potential for early sowing of current barley varieties
  • Management of Early Sown Wheat
  • Increasing water extraction and production on Mallee sands through enhanced nutrient supply in the root zone

Pests & Diseases

  • Russians moving in the Mallee
  • Russian Wheat Aphid – Elders Loxton
  • Monitoring mice in Australia

Soils & Nutrition

  • Testing the concept of fertility strips to increase productivity on deep sand
  • Nutrition Packages for Wheat on Sands
  • The use of drone or satellite NDVI imaging for early detection of seeps in the Mallee
  • The effect of stubble on nitrogen tie-up and supply – The Mallee experience
  • Spading increases yields on Mallee sands
  • Optimising production of vetch on poor Mallee sands with fertilisers
  • Increasing water extraction and production on Mallee sands through enhanced nutrient supply in the root zone
  • Improving crop production from shallow stony soil in the Northern Mallee
  • Identifying the causes of unreliable N fixation by medic based pastures
  • Fluid delivery systems and fungicides in wheat
  • Fluid delivery of fungicides and fertilisers for canola
  • Evaluating the uniformity of spading on sandy soils using computer simulation
  • Evaluating the performance characteristics of mouldboard plough using computer simulation
  • Can soil organic matter be increased in a continuous cropping system in the low to medium rainfall zone?

Weed's & Herbicides

  • Burning of weed seeds in low rainfall farming systems
  • Pre-emergent herbicide management for pulse crops in Southern NSW
  • Monitoring barley grass in broad acre paddocks
  • Summer weeds survey of South Australian cropping districts
  • On-Row Sowing for Brome Competition on Non-Wetting Sands
  • New uses of old herbicides for the control of barley grass in cereals
  • Monitoring and capturing barley grass in broad acre paddocks
  • Management of group A herbicide resistant barley grass in pasture phase
  • Herbicide residues in sandy soils of the Southern region
  • Herbicide efficacy in retained stubble systems
  • Harvest weed seed control – growers spoilt for choice
  • Evaluation of new pre-emergent herbicides for brome grass
  • Burning temperatures of harvest windrows and standing stubbles in low rainfall farming systems

Summary Booklet

  • Compendium Summary 2017

Frost

  • Stubble management and limitations for frost prone landscapes; Victorian Mallee
  • Minimum temperature mapping at farm scale for strategic and tactical frost management

Technology

  • Monitoring barley grass in broad acre paddocks
  • Virtual fencing as a future tool for Mallee farmers
  • The use of drone or satellite NDVI imaging for early detection of seeps in the Mallee

Archived

Livestock & Forage

  • Waikerie landscape forage trial – 6 years on
  • Livestock grazing behaviour in large Mallee paddocks
  • Evaluating the potential of Tedera as a forage option for the Mallee
  • Summer active perennial grasses influence biological functions in Mallee soils in South Australia
  • Soil type affects forage shrub feed quantity more than feed quality
  • An improved pasture-crop system increased yields, with and without grazing, on the Eyre Peninsula
  • Benchmarking sheep enterprises using Breeding Value technology
  • The impact of livestock on paddock health

Break Crops

  • Demonstrating the benefits of break crops in Northern Mallee no-till cropping systems
  • Comparing break crop performance in the SA Mallee
  • Risk management strategies for growing canola in the low rainfall zone
  • Pulses in the Mallee 2015
  • Two year breaks profitably reduce agronomic constraints in the Northern Victorian Mallee
  • Rotational impact of Mallee grain legume crops on wheat
  • Pulses in the Mallee, opportunity awaits
  • Pulse Options for Northern SA Mallee
  • Productive and profitable pulse crops in the Northern Victorian Mallee
  • Preliminary assessment of grain legume nodulation in the South Australian Mallee
  • Is canola seed size important for grain yield
  • Crop sequences address agronomic constraints in a long term continuous cereal paddock
  • New Vetch varieties for break crop options in the Mallee
  • Fixed nitrogen benefit and inoculation response of field pea
  • Field Pea’s stand out in Northern Mallee pulse crop comparison trials
  • Break crops can provide over 1 t/ha of extra wheat over the three subsequent seasons
  • Vetch productions and use in Australian farming systems

Cereals

  • Nitrogen cycling in cereal stubble retained systems
  • Sowing Strategies to Improve Productivity on Sandy Mallee Soils
  • Herbicide efficacy in retained stubble systems
  • Good Stubble, Bad Stubble - More Profit, Less Profit
  • Dual purpose oat varieties show promise in the Mallee
  • Control Traffic Farming in the low rainfall zone of Victoria
  • Is there a preferred wheat or barley variety to grow in a P deficient soil?
  • Stubble Management to Improve Crop Yield
  • Early sowing of Wheat
  • Weed Competitiveness of Barley Varieties
  • Nitrous oxide emissions in grain production systems: What is being lost and what is the cost?
  • Current and new Barley varieties for the Mallee
  • Fluid delivery systems and fungicides in wheat at Warramboo and Streaky Bay

Pests & Diseases

  • Summer active perennial grasses influence biological functions in Mallee soils in South Australia
  • The number of root lesion nematodes declines after strand medic pasture
  • Management of soilborne Rhizoctonia disease risk in cropping systems
  • Targeted liquid delivery of fungicides: a new tool for Rhizoctonia root rot control
  • Manage the Risk of Beet Western Yellow Virus (BWYV) and Other Diseases in 2015
  • Beet western yellows virus (synonym: Turnip yellows virus) and green peach aphid in canola

Soils & Nutrition

  • Extending innovations in cropping practices to the low and medium rainfall zones of Victoria
  • Overcoming constraints on sandy soils – amelioration strategies to boost crop production
  • Managing Nutrition in Sandy Soils to Close the Yield Gap
  • State soil moisture monitoring 2015
  • Soil acidity - Crop yield impacts and management in Central Western NSW
  • Sowing Strategies to Improve Productivity on Sandy Mallee Soils
  • Is there a preferred wheat or barley variety to grow in a P deficient soil?
  • Soil-specific Nitrogen Strategies and Upfront N Application on Sands Continue to Pay at Karoonda

Weed's & Herbicides

  • Testing pre-emergence herbicide options for brome grass on Mallee sand
  • Wild Radish Control: Understanding the Seedbank and Resistance Management
  • Sakura® 850 WG herbicide for grass weed control in water repellent soil
  • Brome grass seed retention declines over harvest
  • Weed Competitiveness of Barley Varieties

Summary Booklet

  • MSF Results Summary 2015
  • Results Summary 2014

New Technology

  • Improved crop establishment through technological innovation
  • Controlling soil throw with tine seeding: opportunities with bent-leg openers

Other

  • Upper North Farming Systems Eastern Low Rainfall Zone Bus Tour
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