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  • New research a key to nutrient management
    Pulses, 12 Sep 2022
    New research a key to nutrient management

    New research on root architecture and application methods supports deep banding as a key part of a nutrient management strategy.

  • Complex phosphorus behaviour unveiled
    Pulses, 09 Sep 2022
    Complex phosphorus behaviour unveiled

    Even in soils with similar characteristics, phosphorus can behave in contrasting and complex ways, leading to questions on how best to replenish this nutrient.

  • Different reactions to deep-placed nutrients
    Pulses, 08 Sep 2022
    Different reactions to deep-placed nutrients

    Central Queensland results highlight how chickpeas and sorghum react to applied phosphorus and potassium.

  • Deep banding drought-proofs northern soils
    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.

  • Deep banding a winner for yields
    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.

  • Trials indicate opportunity for summer chickpeas in the north
    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.

  • Grain legumes initiative aims to close the yield gap in SA
    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.

  • Lentil trial gives impetus to Wimmera pulses
    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.

  • Research aims to expand lentils’ geographic range
    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.

  • Legume pasture trials offer alternatives to the 'Mallee medic'
    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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