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Mallee Sustainable Farming Award for Excellence
Research Articles
2018
Studies
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
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
Archived
Studies
Livestock & Forage
- Virtual fencing as a future tool for Mallee farmers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Russians moving in the Mallee
- Russian Wheat Aphid – Elders Loxton
- Monitoring mice in Australia
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
New Technology
- Improved crop establishment through technological innovation
- Controlling soil throw with tine seeding: opportunities with bent-leg openers
Other
Frost
- Stubble management and limitations for frost prone landscapes; Victorian Mallee
- Minimum temperature mapping at farm scale for strategic and tactical frost management
Technology
2020
Break Crops
- Evaluating break crops on the Murray Plains
- Break crops respond to deep ripping on sandy soils
- Development of innovative lentils for low rainfall regions
- Break crop selection in the Mallee
Cereals
- Improving Productivity of Oats for Hay and Grain
- Improving the early management of dry sown cereal crops
Pests & Diseases
Soils & Nutrition
- Reducing the impact of water repellence on crop productivity through soil wetter agents
- Soil and plant testing for profitable fertiliser use
- Seeder-based strategies to reduce the impact of water repellence on crop productivity
Pastures
2019
