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New broad bean variety offers advantages for growers (National, 20 November 2009)

20.11.2009

• A new broad bean suited to southern high rainfall regions has been launched
• PBA Kareema offers growers improved seed quality characteristics

Chloride Deficiency in Wheat

20.11.2009

Take home message

• Chloride deficiency causes leaf spotting similar to that observed in several paddocks of durum grown in northwest NSW in 2007 and 2008.
• Initial field trials did not respond to added chloride fertiliser, probably because the soil supplied sufficient chloride from below a metre depth.
• Glasshouse wheat grown in sand and chloride-deficient nutrient solution reproduced the leaf spotting symptoms observed in the affected durum paddocks. Spots are very similar to yellow spot caused by the fungus Pyrenophora tritici-repentis.
• Whole plant tissue chloride concentration <0.1% should indicate when spots are related to chloride deficiency and save on unnecessary fungicide sprays.

GRDC Grains Research Business Management Update - Biloela

24.11.2009

GRDC Grains Research Update for Growers on Business Management Questions for Grain Production