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51

Summer 09

  • New threshold for Helicoverpa in vegetative soybeans
  • Potential for higher Helicoverpa thresholds in flowering mungbeans
  • New mungbean management guide
  • beat sheet not showing all pod sucking bugs in soybeans
  • High level phosphine resistance is widespread - management critical for clean grain
  • HatTrick and other variety guides on line
  • Visual quality charts for pulses on-line

Newsletter 51

50

Summer 09

 
  • Double-knockdown to protect glyphosate - do it soon
  • Successful grain storage needs attention to detail
  • TSV and sunflower varieties for CQ
  • Raising the bar on sunflower
  • Nitrogen book and nitrogen fertiliser calculator on CD
  • February/March northern grains research Updates

 


Newsletter 50

49

Spring 09

 
  • Cotton map planned again for this season
  • GOA is a goer!
  • Early action on resistance protects farming system
  • New guide to disease and canopy management
  • Add events to GRDC website on-line

 


Newsletter 49

48

Winter 09

  • Herbicide resistance testing and wild oats

  • Chickpea - chlorothalonil - new minor use permit
  • Free subscription to Pulse Australia
  • Fungicide label changes aim to help resistance management
  • Protect glyphosate at all costs
  • Latest information on end point royalties (EPR) on the GRDC website
  • Soil health knowledge bank - www.soilhealthknowledge.com.au - live from 23rd June
  • New sunflower agronomy guide
  • Pulse Australia to host the biggest event in the global pulse calendar -Brisbane 2010

Newsletter 48

47

Summer 09

  • Check for denitrification loss

  • Down or across the slope farming?
  • Doza faba bean for northern NSW and southern Qld
  • New barley varieties for 2009
  • Go slow with new malting barleys

Newsletter 47

46

Summer 08

  • New thresholds for Helicoverpa in mungbeans

  • Rutherglen bugs - on the threshold?
  • Sorghum desiccation water savings confirmed
  • 'If soil carbon is included in emissions trading, how will it work?'
  • Updates now online
  • Biosecurity online

Newsletter 46

45

Spring 08

  • New guide to featherop Rhodes grass

  • And the grass kept growing!
  • New mungbean varieties
  • Multiple fumigations breed resistance
  • Wheat classification moves to GRDC
  • An environmental plan for grains
  • New irrigated grains manual
  • Interested in soil carbon?

Newsletter 45

44

July 08

  • Air Induction (AI) nozzles are different

  • Using satellite imagery to measure crop variance
  • Chickpea mould false alarm
  • Go early on net blotch
  • Top ten tips for crop productivity
  • Safflower: unexploited potential and world adaptability
  • WATERpak - for irrigated grains

Newsletter 44

43

June 08

  • The economics of precision

  • Nematodes survive the drought
  • Big choice on summer crops at Dalby Update
  • Business Management Updates provide the questions
  • Crown-rot and yield
  • Subsoil constraints cost northern region growers $112 million annually
  • Pestlinks - integrated Pest Management (IPM) information on the web

Newsletter 43

42

April 08

  • Carbon trading and the science behind it

  • Carbon emissions and storage - what is the effect of farming system?
  • Changes to herbicide classification
  • Alpha line on disease resistance
  • IPM Blog - "The Beat Sheet"
  • IWM workshop for advisers

Newsletter 42

41

January 08

  • Australian Feed grains supply chain
  • Premium grain for livestock - quality pays
  • Managing insects in grain sorghum - IPM
  • Want to become a regional GRDC panel member

Newsletter 41

40

December 07

  • Sorghum row spacing, fallow cover and soil water accumulation
  • How aggressive should my cropping system be?
  • Sorghum rust and yield loss in southern Qld
  • Developments in soil biology - inoculants
  • Dealing with a diminishing workforce
  • Handout on managing sodic subsoils online

Newsletter 40

39

September 07

  • Benchmarking sunflowers in NNSW & SQld
  • Improving reliability in rainfed corn
  • Additional phosphorus required?
  • Millet cover crops to augment VAM
  • Chickpea Heliothis thresholds
  • Latest on rust

Newsletter 39

38

Aug/Sept 07

  • How dependent are crops on stored soil water?
  • Rusts - be vigilant for swift response
  • Word swap at WTO - implications for grains industry
  • Advice on guidance systems
  • New legume inoculant formulations
  • Certified mungbean agronomy courses

Newsletter 38

37

July 2007

  • Wild oats resistance options
  • Kit tackles chemical runoff
  • Feedlots value corn
  • Improving reliability of rainfed corn
  • Summer crop water use - how does this compare to wheat?
  • Ready, Set, GROW...! Emerald farming systems forum and Update


Newsletter 37

36

May 2007

  • Glyphosate resistant barnyard grass
  • Maintain vigilance on stripe rust in 07
  • Herbicide carry over warning for chickpeas
  • Has drought affected crown rot inoculum levels?
  • Mungbean accreditation
  • Benchmark your performance


Newsletter 36

35

February 07

  • Double knockdown on fleabane
  • Phenoxy resistant brassicas
  • Changes to Yorker ascochyta recommendations
  • Chickpea and mungbean accredited agronomy courses
  • Millet cover crops - how early is too early?
  • New site profiles sustainable farming in CQ
  • New sunflower Crop Note


Newsletter 35

 

Updated: 04/01/2010