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issue 159, july august 2022

This page shows the articles in issue 159, july august 2022 of GroundCover. As articles are developed and published online, the list below will grow until all articles are available.

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  • What’s holding back area-wide management?
    What’s holding back area-wide management?
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 24 Jun 2022

    Area-wide management can reduce the spread of herbicide resistant weeds; the trick is moving this option from theory to practice

  • Dashboard tracks rising Ascochyta aggression
    Dashboard tracks rising Ascochyta aggression
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 23 Jun 2022

    With the number of highly aggressive Ascochyta rabiei isolates on the rise, Griffith University researchers are investigating why, and they have developed an online dashboard to help

  • Socio-economic factors will drive blotch management practice change
    Socio-economic factors will drive blotch management practice change
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 22 Jun 2022

    Growers face multiple risks in their farming business. In the face of fungicide resistance risk, a recent survey has found that the socio-economic impact of fungicide resistance remains a dominant factor driving net blotch management practice change. Using this information Curtin University’s Centre for Crop and Disease Management is developing methods to effect greater practice change for net blotch management.

  • Co-innovation to curb barley blotches
    Co-innovation to curb barley blotches
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 21 Jun 2022

    A unique approach has been taken to learn about the incidence of net blotch fungicide resistance across southern WA and researchers are now advocating the same approach is necessary for management

  • GRDC opens the door to have your say
    GRDC opens the door to have your say
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 20 Jun 2022

    National Grower Network forums give you a say in influencing GRDC’s research, development and extension efforts

  • Net blotch fungicide resistance profiling enriches knowledge base
    Net blotch fungicide resistance profiling enriches knowledge base
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 19 Jun 2022

    Field profiling research has shown resistance and reduced sensitivity in net blotch to demethylation inhibitor fungicides is widespread across the low-medium rainfall zone, whilst for succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors it appears to be regionally isolated. Initial feedback to Curtin University’s Centre for Crop and Disease Management, whose researchers undertook the work, has indicated that growers are implementing changes in field management, including crop rotations and improved stubble reduction in response to this information.

  • Hardy legume adds nitrogen in drought
    Hardy legume adds nitrogen in drought
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 18 Jun 2022

    Biserrula has proven to be a drought-hardy alternative to subclover pasture and field peas north of Condobolin, where Paul Sinderberry and Sarah Wrigley produce grain and beef cattle.

  • Improving Australia’s containerised grain supply chains
    Improving Australia’s containerised grain supply chains
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 17 Jun 2022

    A joint investigation by the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre, GRDC and the South Australian Grains Industry Trust is consulting with companies active in the container trade to identify supply chain issues and potential solutions.The project leveraged AEGIC’s experience in analysing export supply chains in Australian and export grain competitor nations, with supply chain experts on the east coast and South Australia involved to ensure regional differences were understood.

  • Researchers drill into irrigation profit drivers
    Researchers drill into irrigation profit drivers
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 16 Jun 2022

    A GRDC-invested project, ‘Optimising farm-scale returns from irrigated grains: maximising dollar return per megalitre of water’, led by the University of Tasmania, is being conducted with irrigation growers across Australia. It is helping growers disentangle profit drivers for irrigated crops using a framework that examines the effects of markets, irrigation water requirements, crop type, climate, location and farming system on risk and return.

  • Lentil trial gives impetus to Wimmera pulses
    Lentil trial gives impetus to Wimmera pulses
    Issue 159, July-August 2022 - 15 Jun 2022

    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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