Fertiliser / Nutrition Management

Top Soils Omission trial plots

Strategies for waterlogged crops in the High Rainfall Zone of the Southern Region

Can Nutrition aid recovery of waterlogged crops? And what are the legacy effects for the next season? When waterlogging has destroyed the autumn sown crop, what are the options for spring sowing? What drainage options have growers adopted in the HRZ? What resources and research has been done?
  • GRDC
  • Greta Duff, Ashley Amourgis
  • Hamilton, Streatham, Vite Vite North, Cressy (TAS)
  • Past
IMG 7232 (1)

MAXIMISING THE FARMING SYSTEM BENEFITS & CLOSING THE ECONOMIC YIELD GAP FROM GRAIN LEGUME PRODUCTION IN THE HRZ

What are the key constraints to pulse grain yields and break crop effects, and how can they be overcome?
  • GRDC, Agriculture Victoria
  • , Grace Evans, Greta Duff
  • Vite Vite North
  • Current
Deep N soil sampling

DEEP BANDING NITROGEN

This project aims to demonstrate options to current fertiliser management practices which typically involve large applications of surface applied nitrogen (mainly unprotected urea) onto crops at early stem extension. This is often at a time when soils are at field capacity and waterlogged, resulting in inefficient use of fertiliser. The...
  • Australian Governments NLP2
  • Ashley Amourgis
  • South West Victoria
  • Current
AGV DIS WHT TAR NTH 5

SOIL AND PLANT TESTING

This project involves an intensive soil and plant testing demonstration program involving approximately 100 growers across the southern region. At nutrient responsive sites, growers will be supported to instigate fertiliser test strips to illustrate responses, supported by plant tests. The impact on nutrient use efficiency, profit for each grower and...
  • Ashley Amourgis, Grace Evans
  • Current
Faba Bean Nodulation

NITROGEN FIXATION

Pulses are estimated to fix about 120kg N/ha, or more than 220,000 tonnes N across Australia, worth about $220 million each year. However, not all pulses are well nodulated and fix N to their potential, especially on acidic soils. It was recently estimated (by the GRDC) that N fixation could...
  • GRDC & MSF
  • , Greta Duff, Grace Evans
  • South West Victoria
  • Current
HYC2 GD 253

HYPER YIELDING CROPS

The purpose of this investment is to assist growers and their advisors to effectively implement new knowledge, tools, technologies or practices into whole-of-farm systems to set new attainable yield benchmarks. It will also extend, build upon and extract additional value from historic R,D&E outcomes from HYC in Tasmania.
  • GRDC & FAR Australia
  • Ashley Amourgis, Greta Duff, Brett Davey
  • South West Victoria & Tasmania
  • Current

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