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  • Voyage of discovery: destination salinity-tolerant chickpeas
    Voyage of discovery: destination salinity-tolerant chickpeas
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-07-20T09:00:00+10:00

    Long-term, collaborative research has yielded new plant breeding tools for the development of salt-tolerant chickpea varieties that could push the crop’s expansion into salinity-affected areas.

  • Climate drives cover crop outcomes
    Climate drives cover crop outcomes
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-07-18T09:00:00+10:00

    A research consortium has shown cover crop performance is climate-driven and highly variable depending on where crops are grown in the southern grains region. The consortium was supported by a network of grower groups that facilitated on-farm trials to study the effects of cover crops in different growing environments spread over South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.

  • Favourable conditions set up season 2022
    Favourable conditions set up season 2022
    Author: Nicole Baxter, Clarisa Collis and Andrew Cooke, 2022-06-28T09:00:00+10:00

    Each year, GroundCover™ follows a group of growers from across Australia as they manage the cropping season. In this third instalment for 2022, they discuss how they fared with planting their winter crops.

  • Pathology expert reflects on distinguished career
    Pathology expert reflects on distinguished career
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-04-22T09:00:00+10:00

    One of Australia’s most respected cereal disease experts has retired from a distinguished career spanning four decades.

  • Fire spurs farm business regeneration
    Fire spurs farm business regeneration
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-04-20T09:00:00+10:00

    The largest fire in the history of Kangaroo Island has led to restoration and renewal in the Stanton family’s farm business off the coast of South Australia.

  • Research seeks out perfect paddock marriage
    Research seeks out perfect paddock marriage
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-03-29T09:00:00+11:00

    Observation of local trials at the Rutherglen Research Institute has prompted north-east Victorian grower Ashley Fraser to rethink the potential for intercropping in his family's farm business at Rutherglen. The district trials tested the productivity and profitability of four companion crops, each combining two crop species.

  • Paddock companions show profitable potential
    Paddock companions show profitable potential
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-03-25T09:00:00+11:00

    Victorian growers Ashley Fraser from Rutherglen and Tom Briggs from Norong relate their on-farm experiences growing different types of companion crops in the state's north-east. Both growers were spectators of local intercropping trials at the Rutherglen Research Institute as part of the Victorian Grains Innovation Partnership.

  • 3D mapping profiles soil-based constraints
    3D mapping profiles soil-based constraints
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-02-13T09:00:00+11:00

    The link between crop performance and soil-based constraints is emerging from a new 3D mapping strategy that aims to guide and prioritise on-farm soil amelioration works.

  • On-farm tool blends sensor technologies
    On-farm tool blends sensor technologies
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-02-02T09:00:00+11:00

    Scientists are developing new on-farm systems combining sensor technologies that enable growers to determine both the market class and quality grade of pulses and cereals defined by Grain Trade Australia standards.

  • On-farm amelioration concept shifts into top gear
    On-farm amelioration concept shifts into top gear
    Author: Clarisa Collis, 2022-02-01T09:00:00+11:00

    South Australian grower Rob Pocock plans to use a new 'plough and sow' machine as part of a holistic program that aims to lift soil performance on his family's mixed farm at Lameroo.

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