Factsheets
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Managing your risk of blackleg in canola cultivar HYOLA® 50 on the Eyre Peninsula
Date: 01.02.2012
In 2011, in a blackleg monitoring trial site on the lower Eyre Peninsula (SA), the canola cultivar Hyola® 50 had much higher levels of blackleg than expected. Specifically, blackleg severity in cv. Hyola®50 increased from 16% to 71% internal infection at Wangary from 2010 to 2011. This is the same region where sylvestris resistance was overcome in 2003.
Hyola®50 has been grown extensively on the lower Eyre Peninsula, therefore Hyola® 50 may have even higher disease severity in 2012 if its resistance is overcome by the blackleg fungus. In other sites that were surveyed across South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria, the level of disease in Hyola®50 is still low (less than 25% internal infection).
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Summer Fallow Managment Southern Region Fact Sheet
Date: 12.01.2012
Summer weed control stands out as the most effective way to conserve summer rain and soil nitrogen for use by subsequent crops.
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Summer Fallow Managment Western Region Fact Sheet
Date: 12.01.2012
Summer weed control stands out as the most effective way to conserve summer rain and soil nitrogen for use by subsequent crops.
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Dealing with High Moisture Grain
Date: 14.11.2011
Grain at typical harvest temperatures of 25-30C and moisture content greater than 13-14 per cent provides ideal conditions for mould and insect growth.
There are a number of ways to deal with high moisture grain - the key is to act quickly and effectively.
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Stay safe around grain storage
Date: 14.11.2011
The fundamental approach to grain storage safety is the same as for all other farming activities. The aim is to have a safe workplace for everyone on the farm, including workers, contractors, families, visitors and the owner/managers.
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Late Season Herbicide Use
Date: 14.11.2011
The responsibility to avoid herbicide residues in delivered cereal, pulse and oilseed grains sits squarely with grain growers and their advisers.
The application of herbicides late in the season to prevent weeds setting seed or to desiccate crops must be carried out with caution and in line with herbicide label recommendations.
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Surface temperature inversions and spraying surface temperature inversions and spraying
Date: 09.11.2011
In cooling night conditions airborne pesticides can concentrate near the surface and unpredictable winds can move droplets away from the target. Understanding weather conditions can help spray applicators avoid spray drift.
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Yellow Spot Fact Sheet Northern Region
Date: 22.08.2011
A break from wheat-on-wheat, stubble management and growing resistant varieties are important risk-reducing practices for the stubble-borne disease yellow leaf spot.
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Yellow Leaf Spot Fact Sheet Southern Regions
Date: 22.08.2011
A break from wheat-on-wheat, stubble management and growing resistant varieties are important risk-reducing practices for the stubble-borne disease yellow leaf spot.
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Mouse Control September 2011
Date: 22.08.2011
Mouse numbers can build and decline rapidly depending on localised conditions. Constant vigilance and timely monitoring and control are required to minimise crop loss.
