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Glean Use On Drier Alkaline Soils, Terry Piper, Patrick Piggott

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 86SG25 - Salmon Gums Research Station

There was no apparent evidence of chlorsulfuron carryover at either site, although the medic stand was visually assessed as thinned on 19/8/1987. In the absence of grazing pressure however, the remaining plants compensated by 25/9/1987.

Trial 87WH64 : The effects of low levels of Glean on lupins, in the presence of Hoegrass or Fusilade. Wongan Hills Research Station

This trial is a duplicate of 86WH53 and the results can be considered together.

Statistical analysis has shown a very highly significant effect of Glean on lupin growth in 1987, and on seed yield in …

Finding The Appropriate Forage Value For Analyzing The Feasibility Of Public Range Improvements, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Forestry

To complete economic analysis of range improvements completed on the Oak Creek Management area of central Utah, we needed an estimate of the value of forage. A review of the literature revealed several methods of estimating forage values. These methods yielded eight estimates of public rangeland forage ranging from $1.23 to $30 per animal unit month (AUM). Six of the estimates were based on actual market transactions or current administered prices and were the most reflective of actual economic processes. The best estimates of value were those for leasing similar rangeland in the immediate area.

Duer Ranch, Morrill County, Nebraska: Contrast Between Cenozoic Fluvial And Eolian Deposition, James B. Swinehart, R. F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

The Duer Ranch locality contains some of the finest and most easily accessible examples of different styles of alluvial cuts and fills in the Cenozoic rocks of Nebraska. It offers a unique area in which to examine the geometries and alluvial fills of several Miocene and Pliocene age paleovalleys and paleo-gullies. Good exposures of eolian volcaniclastic siltstones and a regionally important volcanic ash of the Oligocene age Brule Formation are also present at the Duer Ranch locality. In addition, Quaternary ephemeral stream development and deposits can be studied.

Location and Accessibility

Significance of the Locality

Locality Information

Measured Sections [I-IV] …

Paleohydrology Of Some Ogallala (Neogene) Streams In The Southern Panhandle Of Nebraska, R. G. Goodwin, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

Stratification and estimated paleoflow conditions for valley-fill deposits suggest that Ogallala Group streams in western Nebraska were similar to modern streams of south-central Alberta.

Ogallala stratification includes medium-scale (0.5 to 2.0 m thick) trough crossbedded sand and gravel, tabular indistinctly horizontally bedded and imbricated gravel, and horizontally bedded sand and pebbly sand. Valley fills are 15 to 55 m thick and 800 to 1800 m wide at the top. Some are in bedrock-floored channels resembling the “inner channels” of Shepherd and Schumm (1974).

Gradients for three well exposed paleovalley floors range from 0.0014 to 0.0020 (m/m) after tectonic correction. This …

Evaluation Of Risk Factors Leading To Soil Destabilisation On The South Coastal Sandplain Of Western Australia, R V R Gwynn, P A. Findlater, J R. Edwards

Resource management technical reports

The problems of wind erosion in part of the south coast of Western Australian sandplain area were described previously (Gorddard et al, 1981) with 7.3 per cent of cleared and 18.3 per cent of the cropped area showing evidence of sand blasting. Department of Agriculture trials have shown that the loss of the top four millimetres of top soil from pastured paddocks can reduce following crop yields by up to 20 per cent (Marsh and Carter, 1983). Animal production problems associated with wind erosion of soils have not been quantified, but a number of problems such as reduced carrying capacity …

The Economics Of Saltland Agronomy, John S. Salerian, Clive Malcolm, Eddie Pol

Resource management technical reports

No abstract provided.

The Land Resources And Carrying Capacity Of Gascoyne Locations 228 And 229, North Of Carnarvon, Western Australia, M R. Wells, Veronica P M Oma, Alexander Mcrae Holm

Resource management technical reports

No abstract provided.

Post Emergence Weed Control In Lupins., R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

As a general assessment in can be said that Tigrex is a safe and efficient herbicide for control of radish in wheat. Brodal alone was generally unsatisfactory for radish control. While Diuron + Brodal was safe and efficient, Ally and Brodal should not be used together. Diuron + MCPA gave poorer control than one would normally expect.
87WH67

Control Of Prickly Saltwort (Salsola Kali) In Pasture., G. Fleay, R. Ramm

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 87LG65

Glean post-em @ 10 and 15 g/ha gave good control.

A later trial gave good control with Garlon 4800 or 2,4-D amine when sheep grazed the weed after treatment. Considerable pasture damage would be done with all chemicals during the growing season.

Isoproturon Evaluation - Timing Of Application On Efficacy And Crop Damage., R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

The trial was effectively a tolerance trial. Best overall weed control was achieved with Glean and the higher rates of Isoproturon which in turn gave best control as a pre-plant, incorporated treatment.
87A23, 87WH54

Manipulation Of The Soil Seed Reserves Of Bromus Diandrus And B. Rigidus By Enhancing The Breakdown In Seed Dormancy., A H. Cheam

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Location: South Perth Field Plots

Previous studies on the seed bank of Bromus diandrus indicated that shallow burial of newly shed seeds enhanced the breakdown in seed dormancy over the summer period. To bury the Bromus seeds one practical approach is to introduce sheep into the paddock.
This study is a repeat of the previous work but included B. rigidus, another species of Bromus, that is commonly ground growing in association with B. diandrus.
Location: South Perth Field Plots.

Wild Oat Control With Hoegrass With And Without Oil, R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 87NO08
All treatments except Combine + Oil yielded significantly better than the control. Control of wild oats with Grasp was superior to many other treatments and this was reflected in the yield.

Trial 87N009
All treatments yielded significantly better than the control however there was no difference between herbicides, rates of use or additives. The exception being 0.75 L Hoegrass +WA which yielded significantly less than Grasp + oil.

Radish Control In Lupins - Brodal., D J. Gilbey

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

To study the effect of Brodal on lupins and radish.
87GE84, 87TS35, 87MO52, 87NO91, 86MO33.

Control Of Doublegee In Sub. Clover And Medic Pastures., P. Stewart, L. Mann

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 87ME61, 87ME68, 87WH49, 87ES39, 87NO80(B), 87NO80, 87WH67.

Doublegees in pasture are a major concern of many farmers in most of the agricultural areas in Western Australia. In pasture, doublegees tend to compete strongly the first year after crop and then decline in subsequent years. When cropped, doublegees again appear in large numbers. Unfortunately, the WADA recommendation for doublegee control in pasture of Tribunil at 850 g/ha is now very expensive at $17/ha. A possible alternative is 2,4-D amine, but medics are very sensitive to this. 2,4-DB is another recommendation, but this tends to have low efficacy against doublegees and …

Tolerance Of Cereal Varieties To Hoegrass + Oil, R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Almost invariably, Hoegrass applied to wheat and barley varieties reduced crop vigour assessed ten weeks after spraying.
87A34(1)

Control Of Capeweed Prior To Sowing Crop., J. R. Pierce, B. J. Rayner

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

All treatments gave significant yield benefits over the untreated. Mixtures containing diuron did not cause any significant crop damage although yields on three of the treatments using 1.5 L/ha were low despite the good weed control.
87WH59

Tolerance Of Ceral Varieties To Grasp, R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

The site remained mostly weed free throughout the season apart from some invasion by crassula spp. between plots. Some site variation was reflected in yield variation between replicates. The effects of Grasp on all varieties of wheat and Schooner barley were evident soon after spraying.
87A34 (2)

Crop Establishment, R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial effect of timing of Roundup CT and Spray.Seed application and cultivation on crop establishment and growth.
87WH53, 87NO85

The general tendency was for yield to decrease as the time to seeding after Spray.Seed application increased.
For trial 87NO85 the site was a 'problem', heavy textured soil where crop emergence problems following glyphosate had been experienced in previous years.

Crop establishment - time of seeding following herbicide application.
87A37

Use of a knockdown herbicide greatly increased yield when compared to the unsprayed treatments. Further work is required to resolve contrasting results.

Barley Grass X Nitrogen Interaction., G. S. Gill, R. L. Thomas

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Barley grass x nitrogen interaction.
87WH12, 87N4.

Barley grass control in wheat.
87N3, 87A3.

Competition between wheat and mixtures of barley grass and doublegees.
87A5.

Evaluation Of Additives With Bracken Herbicides Applied To Boomsprayer., R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Treatments were applied in December 1987. Height of the Bracken made application by boom difficult due to inability to adequately raise the boom to give clearance. Some brushing of the Bracken with the boom was unavoidable. Assessment of the trial will be made in March 1988.

Effects Of Residue Levels Of Glean On Lupin Growth, And Possible Synergism By Hoegrass., Terry Piper, Patrick Pigott

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 87PE37

This trial was conducted to confirm the results of 86WH53 and 87WH64. The trial commenced in September and in a glasshouse thus temperatures were higher and growth faster then in the field trials.
There are no significant effects of soil applied Glean or Hoegrass, and no interaction between the two herbicides.
In contrast, there is a very significant stunting of plants by Glean applied post emergence if Hoegrass is co-applied, but not by Glean alone.

Rates Of Ally And Glean For Cape Tulip Control., R. Madin, J. Buckley

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Evaluation in 1987 indicated that Ally and Glean at all rates gave 100% control of Cape Tulip at York with minimal pasture affect on species other than clover.
87NO110, 87NO110(1), 87NO110(2), 87NO110(3)

Brome Grass Control In Wheat, G. S. Gill, R. L. Thomas

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Brome grass control in wheat
87GE29, 87WH9

Competition between wheat and mixtures of brome grass and doublegees.
87GE30

Chemical Control Of Four O'Clock (Oxalis Purpurea) And Narrow Leaf Oxalis (Oxalis Glabra)., J. R. Peirce, B. J. Rayner

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

Trial 97NO95

Control of small leaved Oxalis - Logran gave reasonable control. Post seeding treatments using Isoproturon gave very poor control.

Control of Oxalis purpurea (Four O'clock) - Logran either as a single application or a mixture with Isoproturon gave best control.

Control of clover - Isoproturon 4 L (post), Ally and Logran (40 g) gave 100% control.

Control of erodium - Logran gave very poor control.

Control of grasses - Isoproturon 2 & 4 Li/ha post emergent gave the best control of grasses.

Control of Four O'clock in cereals - Crop yield - Treatments using single doses of Isoproturon …

Lithologic Controls On Karst Groundwater Flow, Lost River Groundwater Basin, Warren County, Kentucky, Christopher Groves

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The Lost River Groundwater Drainage Basin in Warren County, Kentucky, is a karst drainage system encompassing 55 square miles (143 square kilometers) developed within the Mississippian St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve Limestones. Near the contact between these two formations are two bedded chert units, the Lost River Chert Bed (Elrod, 1899) within the Ste. Genevieve and the Corydon Chert Member (Woodson, 1983) of the St. Louis, which appear to be perching layers to shallow karst groundwater flow. Groundwater may be seen flowing on top of these beds in various cave streams and at swallets and springs throughout the basin.

In …

Baseline Acidity Of Percipitation At The South Pole During The Last Two Millennia, J H. Cragin, M B. Giovinetto, A J. Gow

United States Army: Publications

Measurements of meltwater pH from annual layers of South Pole firn and ice samples ranging in age from 40 to 2000 years B .P. show that precipitation at this remote site has a higher natural acidity than that expected from atmospheric equilibrium with CO2. The average pH of deaerated (C O2-free)samples was 5 .64 + 0.08, while a irequilibrated samples averaged5 .37 + 0.08, a pH that is about a factor of two more acidic than the expected background pH of 5.65. The observed" excess" acidity can be accounted for by SO1-and NO7 levels in the samples originating from non-anthropogenic …

Soluble Sugar Concentrations In Needles And Bark Of Western White Pine In Response To Season And Blister Rust, United States Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

Forestry

Amounts of soluble sugars in certain tissues of 12- to 16-year-old western white pine (Pinus monticola Dougl.) trees, each with a blister rust canker girdling about 50 percent of the bole circumference, were compared with rust-free trees. Fructose, glucose, sucrose, raffinose, and stachyose extracted from needles and healthy and diseased bark were identified with thin-layer chromatography and quantified with a densitometer. The host's seasonal growth cycle induced changes in sugar concentrations in current, 1- and 2-year needles, but the bole cankers did not. Amounts of bark sugars characterized the activities of the rust fungus (Cronartium ribicola J.C. Fisch.) as well …

Analysis Of Coal Samples From The Hazard District, Kentucky (Breathitt, Knott, Leslie, And Perry Counties And Other Parts Of Letcher And Harlan Counties), James C. Currens, Linda Jean Bragg, James C. Hower

Information Circular--KGS

Chemical and petrographic doto ore presented for 132 samples of cool collected in the Hazard District, eastern Kentucky. These data include sample-site locations, sampling conditions, stratigraphic position, megoscopic description of the cool, air-drying loss, proximate and ultimate analyses, Btu content, forms of sulfur, initial deformation temperature, softening temperature, fluid temperature, free-swelling index, concentration of major, minor, and trace elements, and petrographic analyses.

Analysis Of Coal Samples From Licking River District, Kentucky (Elliott, Magoffin, Morgan, And Wolfe Counties And Parts Of Menifee, Powell, And Rowan Counties), James C. Currens, Linda Jean Bragg, James C. Hower

Information Circular--KGS

Chemical and petrographic data ore presented for 41 samples of cool collected in the Licking River District, eastern Kentucky. These data include sample-site locations, sampling conditions, stratigraphic position, megoscopic description of the cool, air-drying loss, proximate and ultimate analyses, Btu content, forms of sulfur, initial deformation temperature, softening temperature, fluid temperature, free-swelling index, concentration of major- and minor-oxides and trace elements, and petrographic analyses.

The Demography Of Doublegee. Ecological Studies On Arum Lily., F. D. Panetta

Experimental Summaries - Plant Research

3.1 Growth of doublegees under summer irrigation. (87A40)

The weevil, Perapion antiquum is a potential biological control agent of doublegee. However, it exhibits large population crashes during the summer months in the summer-dry areas of the Western Caped of South Africa, where it is native. It has been suggested that one means of successfully establishing Perapion in Western Australia could be to maintain populations in 'oases' over the summer months. The aim of this experiment was to determine how readily doublegee could be maintained in a non-senescent phase under irrigated and shaded conditions.

3.2 Doublegee demography in cereal crops (87GE30) …