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Precision Agriculture Manual - CD Rom

Order No:
GRDC287

The PA Manual CD contains three documents:

PA manual - summarises technical detail about the science and technology of PA and how growers can apply it in practice. It includes spreadsheets that can be used by growers and advisers to see whether expenditure on PA is likely to be a sound investment.
Undertaking your own on-farm experiments: how PA can help - explains how growers can use PA to lay out and harvest their own trials of new varieties or different rates of fertiliser or other inputs.
Standards for Electro-magnetic Induction Mapping – proposes a set of standards for good practice in undertaking and reporting EM surveys.

The three documents are complementary and have numerous active links so that they can be jointly searched. The CD has been set up so that sections, pages, diagrams and images can be easily printed or saved for later modification and use in other PA education and training materials. Designed for growers and advisers who are familiar with the PA concepts and want more detailed information.

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2003 National Farm Group Manual & CD Rom

Published:
Developed for the GRDC by Australian Grain

Organisation:
GRDC and Australian Grain

Author:
Developed for the GRDC by Australian Grain

Order No:
GRDC072

This 160 page manual and CD Rom presents results of over 100 grower group field trials. Trial results are outlined in clear, concise and standardised terms to allow meaningful comparisons across the national grain belt. It also looks at how grower groups tick and why they are making profitable impacts in their local regions and communities.

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2004 National Farm Groups' Manual

Organisation:
GRDC

Order No:
GRDC138

The National Farm Groups' Manual (GRIST) and CD Rom is an annual ‘best of’ collation of on-farm field research results from scores of GRDC-supported grower groups and trial sites across Australia. From carefully selected sites, significant research results – across all grain types – are presented in a standardised and easy to follow reporting format.

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2005 National Farm Groups' Manual (GRIST)

Organisation:
Australian Grain

Editor:
Lloyd O'Connell Editor Australian Grain

Cost:
$10.00

Order No:
GRDC218

An annual 'best of' collation of field research results from scores of GRDC-supported grower groups and trial sites across Australia. From carefully selected sites, significant research results across all grain types are presented in a standardised and easily understood reporting format.

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ONTRACK - Real Skills - Rural Future (CD Rom)

Order No:
GRDC099

This 2003 version is an interactive multimedia CD-Rom filled with information on today's exciting Rural Career opportunities.

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Salt of the Earth - Farming and Sustaining the Soil Beyond 2000

Organisation:
Produced by Maria Taylor Media Associates and GRDC

Cost:
$27.50 for individuals, $55 for grower groups

Order No:
GRDC033

Introduced and narrated by comedian Roy Slaven, this user-friendly resource for teachers, students, farmers and landcare groups explores some of the most urgent and degradation problems in cropping regions with a focus on dryland and irrigation salinity, soil erosion and soil acidity. Applicable to all growers around Australia.

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The ALFI database CD Rom, Version 1

Organisation:
GRDC Australian Pork FRDC RIRDC SARDI Australian E

Cost:
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Order No:
GRDC168

The Australian Livestock Feed Ingredient (ALFI) database is an interactive database for Access program software on nutritional quality of locally-grown grains for pigs, poultry and aquaculture species. It provides detailed information on feed ingredients including nutritive value (nutrient digestibility and availability) and chemical composition (proximate, amino acid profile, starch, non-starch polysaccharides, fatty acids, soluble and insoluble sugars, vitamins, minerals, anti-nutritional factors and toxins) along with growing environment of the ingredients, how the ingredients are stores and processed, physical features and the methodology employed for chemical analysis and nutritional evaluation.

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