Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Department of Agriculture and Food
City
Perth
Publication Date
25-2-2010
Keywords
Farm fumigation, phosphine, resistance, Grazing canola, hybrid canola varieties, liveweight change, condition score, canola yield, pasture cropping systems, perennial species, grain yield, Improved soil health, double income stream, grazing crops, canola, mixed farming, feed-gap, sheep, serradella, annual forage legumes, sowing, pasture establishment, continuous wheat, break crops, canola, row spacing, stubble, no-till, ryegrass, stubble management, rotation, evapotranspiration, POAMA, seasonal rainfall forecast, wheat, N-management, rainfall season-types, climate change, adaptation, seasonal variability, farm business management options, risk management, adoption, communication, simulation model, time of sowing, flowering, yield, farm performance, benchmarking, farm profitability, farm operating efficiency, Indian Ocean SST forecasts, bias correction, water use efficiency (WUE), operating surplus, soil conductivity (SC), production zones, Precision Agriculture (PA), electromagnetic induction, variable rate, lime, precision agriculture technology, paddock level experimentation, variability, VRT
Abstract
This session covers twenty papers from different authors:
Pests and Disease
1. Preserving phosphine for use in Grain Storage Industry, Christopher R Newman, Department of Agriculture and Food
Farming Systems Research
2. Demonstrating the benefits of grazing canola in Western Australia, Jonathan England, Stephen Gherardi and Mohammad Amjad, Department of Agriculture and Food
3. Buloke barley yield when pasture-cropped across subtropical perennial pastures, David Ferris, Department of Agriculture and Food, Phil Ward and Roger Lawes, CSIRO
4. Is pasture cropping viable in WA? Grower perceptions and EverCrop initiatives to evaluate, David Ferris, Tim Wiley, Perry Dolling, Department of Agriculture and Food, Philip Barrett-Lennard, Evergreen farming
5. Best-bet management for dual-purpose canola, John Kirkegaard, Susan Sprague, Hugh Dove and Walter Kelman, CSIRO, Canberra, Peter Hamblin, Agritech Research, Young, NSW
6. Pasture in cropping systems – with and without sheep, Brad Nutt and Angelo Loi, Department of Agriculture and Food
7. Can technology substitute for a lupin break? Wayne Parker, Department of Agriculture and Food
8. Canola row spacing with and without long term stubble retention on a sandy clay loam at Merredin, Glen Riethmuller, Department of Agriculture and Food
9. Impact of stubble retention on water balance and crop yield, Phil Ward1, Ken Flower2,3, Neil Cordingley2 and Shayne Micin1, 1CSIRO, Wembley, Western Australia, 2Western Australian No-Till Farmers Association, 3University of Western Australia
Analysis and Modelling
10. Using POAMA rainfall forecasts for crop management in South-West WA, Senthold Asseng1, Peter McIntosh2,3, Mike Pook2,3, James Risbey2,3, Guomin
Wang3, Oscar Alves3, Ian Foster4, Imma Farre4 and Nirav Khimashia1, 1CSIRO Plant Industry, Perth, 2CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, 3Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR), A partnership between the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, Melbourne, 4Department of Agriculture and Food
11. Adaption to changing climates and variability – results of the Agribusiness Changing Climates regional workshop, Anderson W3, Beard D3, Blake J3, Grieve R1, Lang M3, Lemon J3, McTaggart R3, Gray D3, Price M2 and Stephens D3, 1Roderick Grieve Farm Management Consultants, 2Coffey International P/L, 3Department of Agriculture and Food
12. Farmers’ management of seasonal variability and climate change in WA, DA Beard, DM Gray, P Carmody, Department of Agriculture and Food
13. Is there a value in having a frost forecast for wheat in South-West WA? Imma Farre1, Senthold Asseng2, Ian Foster1 and Doug Abrecht3, 1Department of Agriculture and Food, CSIRO, Floreat, 2CSIRO Plant Industry, Perth
3Department of Agriculture and Food, Centre for Cropping Systems
14. Does buying rainfall pay? Greg Kirk, Planfarm Agricultural Consultants
15. Which region in the WA wheatbelt makes best use of rainfall? Peter Rowe, Bankwest Agribusiness
16. POAMA – the Predictive Ocean-Atmosphere Model for Australia, Guomin Wang and Oscar Alves, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR), A partnership between the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, Melbourne
17. Exploring the link between water use efficiency and farm profitability, Cameron Weeks, Planfarm and Peter Tozer, PRT Consulting
Precision Agriculture
18. A plethora of paddock information is available – how does it stack up? Derk Bakker, Department of Agriculture and Food
18. Variable rate prescription mapping for lime inputs based on electromagnetic surveying and deep soil testing, Frank D’Emden, Quenten Knight and Luke Marquis, Precision Agronomics, Australia
19. Trial design and analysis using precision agriculture and farmer’s equipment, Roger Lawes, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Centre for Environment and Life
Sciences, Floreat
20. Farmer perspectives of precision agriculture in Western Australia: Issues and the way forward, Dr Roger Mandel, Curtin University
Recommended Citation
Newman, C R, England, J, Gherardi, S, Amjad, M, Ferris, D, Ward, P, Lawes, R, Wiley, T, Dolling, P, Barrett-Lennard, P, Kirkegaard, J, Sprague, S, Dove, H, Kelman, W, Hamblin, P, Nutt, B, Loi, A, Parker, W, Riethmuller, G, Flowers, K, Cordingley, N, Micin, S, Asseng, S, McIntosh, P, Pook, M, Risbey, J, Wang, G, Alves, O, Foster, I, Farre, I, Khimashia, N, Anderson, W, Beard, D, Blake, J, Grieve, R, Lang, M, Lemon, J, McTaggart, R, Gray, D, Price, M, Stephens, D, Carmody, P, Abrecht, D, Kirk, G, Rowe, P, Weeks, C, Tozer, P, Bakker, D, D'Emden, F, Knight, Q, Marquis, L, and Mandel, R. (2010), Crop Updates 2010 - Farming Systems. Department of Agriculture and Food, Perth. Conference Proceeding.
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Agribusiness Commons, Agronomy and Crop Sciences Commons, Climate Commons, Other Plant Sciences Commons, Plant Pathology Commons
Comments
Please cite papers individually