Cropping

The main foliar diseases affecting faba beans in Victoria include cercospora leaf spot, ascochyta blight and chocolate spot.

Winter Crop Walk Series – Audrey Gripper SFS, Alistair Crawford ADAMA & James Considine Syngenta. Southern Farming Systems host trial at Hamilton Branch Lake Linlithgow Trial Site looking at new pre-emergent herbicides in Faba Beans.

Barley Disease Management evaluating products Maxentis and Proviso against industry standards.

This GRDC project, now in its third year, is looking at optimising seed placement, plant establishment, plant densities and row spacings to maximise crop yield. As a part of this Southern Farming Systems are undertaking paddock scale trials in both canola and faba beans.

Southern Farming Systems Herbicide Matrix trial evaluating the crop tolerance of broadleaf crops to a range of herbicide products and timings.

The main aim of these member trials is to evaluate the effectiveness of different levels of management in any given season. Using varieties GrainSearch Bottler, GrainSearch Nitro, SeedForce RGT Planet, AGF Seeds Laperouse.

The intercropping trial is testing crop combinations to increase land use efficiency and resource use.

GrainSearch Barley & Wheat Evaluation Trials with Philip Jobling, GrainSearch.

Evaluate the value of inoculant rate and rhizobia acid-tolerance for increasing nodulation and N fixation of faba beans on acidic soil.