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Getting The Best Out Of Our Wheats., Brenda Shackley, L. Lambert

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trials: 90KA82 (TOS1), 90KA83 (TOS 2), 90KA84 (TOS 3)
90LG4 (TOS 1), 90LG45 (TOS 2), 90LG46 (TOS 3)
90LG47 (TOS 1), 90LG48 (TOS 2), 90LG49 (TOS 3)
90N42 (TOS 1), 90N43 (TOS 2), 90N44 (TOS 3)

Variety * time of sowing (TOS)

Locations: Wagin, Tarin Rock, Newdegate Research Station and Lake Varley.

Determine the optimum sowing date for maximum yield for a range of released and unreleased wheat cultivars.

Trials: 90KA79, 90LG50, 90LG51, 90N62

Nitrogen application.

Locations: Wagin, Tarin Rock, Newdegate Station and Lake Varley.

Determine the response of released and unreleased wheat cultivars to the application of nitrogen.

Trials: …

Ecology And Control Of Grass Weeds In Cereal Pasture Rotations In The Great Southern Region., A. Wallace

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Silvergrass control.

Trial 90AB11

Location: Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute - Katanning.

The site was an established silvergrass dominant pasture on a light sandy soil.

Trial 90KA95

Location: Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute - Katanning

The site was an established silvergrass dominant pasture on a medium clay soil.

Trial 90KA96

Location: Great Southern Agricultural Research Institute - Katanning

The site was an established silvergrass dominant pasture on heavy (Moort type) clay soil.

Simazine was found to be very active against silvergrass on the light sandy site and all rates applied gave complete control. There were some late germinations which enabled …

Development Of Herbicide Tolerant Lupin Varieties., J. Cooper

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 90GL26

Effect of growth stage at application of response to atrazine.

To determine the optimum stage for application of atrazine to show the most consistent and maximum differences between varieties of lupins in glasshouse tolerance trials.

Trial 90GL28

Response to lupin varieties to metribuzin applied post emergence.

This is an initial quick screening to determine if the same pattern of responses occurs when metribuzin is applied as when simazine/atrazine is used. Field rates were used assuming that there are 1,250,000 pots/ha. The recommended rate applied to peas is 300g/ha so this was used as an estimate of the amount …

Investigating Poor Pasture Productivity., J. W. Bowden, R. J. Lunt, C. Broun

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 90N06

Location: West Dale

To determine the reason for poor pasture productivity in medium rainfall zone. Specifically why the pastures are dominated by the poorly productive species Trifolium suffocatum and why there was a large response to phosphorous fertilizer at 50 ppm P in the soil.

Systems For Early Sowing Of Wheat In Low Rainfall Zones., Nicole Kerr, Glenn Adam

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Aims:

(i) use available climatic data to determine when breaks are likely to occur, and assess the risk of crop failure from 'false breaks'.

(ii) determine optimum methods of early crop establishment on a number of soil types, particularly massive earth soils.

(iii) determine the yield advantages of early planting of cereals, and sowing date * variety interactions. (iv) increase adoption of early sowing technology throughout the north-eastern wheatbelt.

Trial 90GE7, 90GE8, 90NM1 and 90GE10

Time of sowing * variety trials.

Location: Balla, North Mullewa and Morawa.

All of the trials the following design: 3 sowing dates (mid May, late …