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  • Swathing could improve mungbean desiccation
    Pulses, 17 May 2022
    Swathing could improve mungbean desiccation

    Newer, more vigorous mungbean varieties are making it more difficult to achieve successful chemical desiccation. Mechanical desiccation – or swathing – could provide an effective alternative. Initial research has shown mechanical desiccation resulted in faster dry down and earlier harvest.

  • Expanding the opportunities for pulse weed control
    Pulses, 16 May 2022
    Expanding the opportunities for pulse weed control

    New novel herbicide tolerance traits are eagerly anticipated to help manage challenging issues such as volunteer vetch in lentil and field pea crops. Potential new lentil varieties will add a second tolerance to existing imidazoline tolerance.

  • Early acidity management essential for pulse success
    Pulses, 14 May 2022
    Early acidity management essential for pulse success

    Soil acidity is an increasing issue across South Australia’s cropping zone. Prompt amelioration is necessary to prevent the development of sub-surface acidity which that limits the growth of pulse and legume crops.

  • Putting a value on legume legacies
    Pulses, 09 May 2022
    Putting a value on legume legacies

    Researchers have estimated the lasting impacts of legumes on canola

  • Extending high-value pulses to WA
    Pulses, 05 May 2022
    Extending high-value pulses to WA

    While Western Australia produces the lion’s share of Australia’s lupins, its share of the high-value pulses – chickpeas, faba beans and lentils – is low. Demonstration trials have raised awareness and helped growers to evaluate opportunities to improve agronomy and optimise yield.

  • Tools to 'see' mungbean success part of new research phase
    Pulses, 04 May 2022
    Tools to 'see' mungbean success part of new research phase

    The National Mungbean Improvement Program is entering its fifth iteration and aims to address how to assess gains in grain quality stability that can no longer be visually detected, while using pre-breeding screening methods to identify improved heat tolerance germplasm.

  • Irrigated faba beans break the 7t barrier
    Pulses, 03 May 2022
    Irrigated faba beans break the 7t barrier

    Irrigation provides the opportunity to produce hyper- yielding crops, with faba bean crops already exceeding seven tonnes per hectare. But higher biomass can be risky for disease and lodging, demonstrating the need to carefully manage these intensely grown crops.

  • Soil amelioration a ‘little ripper’ for Mallee pulses
    Pulses, 02 May 2022
    Soil amelioration a ‘little ripper’ for Mallee pulses

    Deep ripping has dramatically improved grain yield and gross margins of chickpeas, faba beans, lentils, field peas and vetch in the deep sands of the Mallee in Victoria and South Australia. Ripping reduced the financial risk of growing pulses by reducing the risk of a negative gross margin.

  • Perfect match needed to reduce lentil drought risk
    Pulses, 30 Apr 2022
    Perfect match needed to reduce lentil drought risk

    The increasing prevalence of drought conditions in Victoria has reduced the yield of lentils over the past two decades. Standing stubble played a greater role in improving plant-available water and lentil yield in the field than row spacing.

  • Fit-for-purpose research targets pulse profitability
    Pulses, 28 Apr 2022
    Fit-for-purpose research targets pulse profitability

    A maturing pulse agronomy program aspires to shift pulses from risky to rewarding to increase the area and productivity of pulses in the cropping system. New investments are targeting local research and extension needs in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia.

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