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Pulses, 08 Sep 2022
Different reactions to deep-placed nutrients
Central Queensland results highlight how chickpeas and sorghum react to applied phosphorus and potassium.
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Pulses, 07 Sep 2022
Deep banding drought-proofs northern soils
Unlike its more-mobile cousin nitrogen, phosphorus is effectively immobile in the northern region’s clay soils, a challenge in a farming system that relies on stored soil water. Deep banding offers a solution that improves soil health and boosts crop yields.
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Pulses, 31 Aug 2022
Deep banding a winner for yields
Central Queensland’s Kurt Mayne credits ‘the best research in a decade’ with improving soil fertility and boosting yields.
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Pulses, 04 Jul 2022
Trials indicate opportunity for summer chickpeas in the north
GRDC’s latest video and podcast, ‘Summer chickpeas show red-hot promise’, looks at how these breeding lines, plus existing commercial varieties, have performed in summer trials.
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Pulses, 20 Jun 2022
Grain legumes initiative aims to close the yield gap in SA
The economic impact of a range of management options for grain legume crops will be further explored this year through a collaborative and geographically broad initiative in South Australia.
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Pulses, 15 Jun 2022
Lentil trial gives impetus to Wimmera pulses
West Wimmera growers are adopting pulses to help them improve soil health, in-crop weed control and farming system profitability. After assessing the performance of a trial of lentils direct-drilled into barley on his property last year, Jade Lowe is sowing the pulse as part of his cropping rotation in 2022.
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Pulses, 13 Jun 2022
Research aims to expand lentils’ geographic range
GRDC has recently invested in two new five-year breeding and selection projects involving lentils – one to improve the ability of lentils to grow on acidic soils in Australia, and the other to boost the yield stability of lentils growing in higher-temperature regions. GRDC oilseeds and pulses manager Dr Francis Ogbonnaya says that while commercial lentil varieties have been introduced, selected and improved to grow well in Australia’s southern, medium-rainfall cropping zones such as Victoria’s Wimmera and South Australia’s Eyre and Yorke peninsulas, grain growers in NSW and Western Australia are much more restricted in the choice of legumes they can grow in their crop rotations.
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Pulses, 11 Jun 2022
Legume pasture trials offer alternatives to the 'Mallee medic'
Ouyen, Victoria, grower Scott Anderson is hosting trials as part of the $12 million Dryland Legume Pasture Systems project, led by GRDC, which sourced legume pasture species to evaluate their adaptation, rotational benefits, sowing methods and economics in different Australian growing areas. The five-year project spanned medium to low-rainfall regions of Western Australia, central and southern New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.
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Pulses, 06 Jun 2022
Hard seeded legumes a suitable fit for NSW mixed farmers
Research has shown hard seeded legumes can play a key role in driving down input costs without sacrificing production for mixed farming operations in medium to low rainfall zones.
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Pulses, 21 May 2022
Opportunity for summer legumes in Victoria
Existing summer crop options are limited for growers in the southern region who want to take advantage of sporadic summer rainfall events. Researchers have found potential for high-value pulse production in the Victorian high-rainfall zone and irrigation areas.