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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 104
Making Herbicides Last:
This Ground Cover supplement outlines ways to make our limited herbicides last as long as possible so that our cropping systsems continue to be productive and viable.
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 103
Catch more, store more, grow more.
This supplement reports on the main findings of the Water Use Efficiency Initiative. The five-year initiative was established in 2008 to challenge growers and researchers to lift the water use efficiency (WUE) of grain-based production systems by 10 per cent across Australia’s southern and western cropping regions.
Reflecting the work within the Water Use Efficiency Initiative, the articles presented in this Ground Cover supplement have been organised into pre-crop and in-crop themes. Combined, these improved pre-crop and in-crop management practices can easily achieve the goal of a 10 per cent lift in the WUE and yield of Australian cropping systems.
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 102
This Ground Cover supplement on emerging issues with diseases, weeds and pests provides details of what is being done to manage these threats while also acting as an alert for regions where the threats are emerging.
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 101
Yield is an important component of a grain business’s profitability. Selecting varieties that produce the best yield for a particular market from the same inputs is good business management.
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Ground Cover
- Issue Number
- 100
We want the GRDC levy to be the best investment a grower can make to improve their business.
This Ground Cover supplement has been produced to explain the Strategic Research & Development Plan 2012-17 and the changes made to implement and deliver this plan.
The key GRDC contacts are detailed, as well as the corporate strategies and organisational changes that have taken place.
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Ground Cover
The objective of this Ground Cover supplement is to demonstrate how the GRDC is investing in grains and legumes nutrition on behalf of grain growers and to help growers understand and recognise the value of their products to the health of the nation.
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In most areas of the GRDC's western and southern regions wheat remains the dominant crop. For example, in the low-rainfall region of southern Australia less than five per cent of growers sow pulses or oilseeds. Similarly, in the northern region wheat and sorghum dominate, despite a wide range of other crops options.
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The objective of the More Profit from Crop Nutrition Initiative program is to provide grain growers with nutrition knowledge that relates to conservation farming systems operating under various climatic conditions. The primary outcome will be delivering to grain growers the knowledge and skills necessary to enable them to determine whether their current nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium application practices are efficient and meet best management practice. Projects reported in this Ground Cover supplement are: - bringing together national expertise to advise...
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Building on the outcomes of the previous soil biology initiative (2002-2006), the new Soil Biology Initiative 'Harnessing the biological potential of our soils' - focusses on just that.
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While mixed farming is not a new concept, running a mixed-farming system with no-till, controlled traffic and precision agriculture provides new challenges as well as opportunities.