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

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

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

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