Grains Research Update Goondiwindi Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th March 2015 PROGRAM DAY 1 – TUESDAY 3rd MARCH Time Topic Speaker (s) 10:00 AM Welcome James Clark (Chair Northern Panel GRDC) 10:10 AM Helping clients adopt and manage change: Lessons learnt from 29 years of herbicide resistance in WA. Geoff Fosbery (ConsultAg) 10:45 AM Making good decisions great: Questions to challenge and improve decision making. Cam Nicholson (Nicon Rural Services) 11:15 AM Finding more yield and profit from farming systems: Attainable yields, benchmarking yields using local WUE numbers, economics of profit draggers and drivers. Simon Fritsch (AgriPath) 11:55 AM Social media for ageing agronomists: Social media to speed access to and share new stuff. Pru Cook (GRDC) 12:35 PM Lunch 1:35 PM Concurrent session 1 (See concurrent sessions for details) 3:20 PM Afternoon tea 3:50 PM Concurrent session 2 (See concurrent sessions for details) 5:35 PM Close 6:40 PM Pre-dinner drinks 7:30 PM Dinner – Royal Hotel Marshall Street PROGRAM DAY 2 – WEDNESAY 4th MARCH Time Topic Speaker (s) 8:30 AM Concurrent session 3 (See concurrent sessions for details) 10:15 AM Morning tea 10:45 AM Concurrent session 4 (See concurrent sessions for details) 12:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM Soil sodicity: Chemistry; physics and amelioration. Soil structural & plant impacts. Prof. Neal Menzies (UQ) 2:20 PM Managing nutrition in sodic soils Chris Guppy (UNE) 2:50 PM Close Location and Timing of Concurrent Sessions Main Goondiwindi Goondiwindi Training Centre River room auditorium Training Centre computer lab DAY 1 Session 1 Weeds Varietal agronomy Disease Session 2 Weeds Varietal agronomy Disease DAY 2 Session 3 Pulses Soil and water Summer crop Session 4 Pulses Soil and water Lodging & discussion with: Pru Cook, Cam Nicholson, Simon Fritsch and Geoff Fosbery Summer crop Lodging & discussion with: Maurie Street, Rob Buttimor, Peter Martin and Steve Simpfendorfer CONCURRENT SESSIONS Weeds (Sessions 1 & 2 on day 1) Chemistry in the spray tank to avoid reactions you don’t want! Managing PH, water volume and hardness, formulation type, tank mixes and mixing order. (Rob Buttimor, Senior formulation chemist Dow AgroSciences) Weed seed capture at harvest - research in central NSW. (Maurie Street, GOA) NGA weeds research update: Comparing new herbicide options for problem weeds in chickpeas; Residual chemistry in crops and fallow. (Lawrie Price & Richard Daniel, NGA) Varietal agronomy (Sessions 1 & 2 on day 1) A new and more effective way to use and interpret variety trials to select optimum varieties. (Peter Martin, Howqua Consulting) Wheat variety response to sowing time and quantifying the yield impact: Comparing strategies to select varieties with a more stable yield across sowing dates or switch to a shorter season at later dates? How big is the bet and what are the odds? (Peter Martin, Howqua Consulting & Guy McMullen, NSW DPI) Barley agronomy and variety research (Rick Graham, NSW DPI) Cereal breeding directions for the Northern Region: Gene markers, technologies and new traits to add value. (Haydn Kuchel, AGT) Disease (Sessions 1 & 2 on day 1) Impact of crop varieties on RLN multiplication. (Brendan Burton, NGA) Disease update: Stripe rust in high yield crops of SuntopA and LancerA - what’s happening? Leaf rust and the NaparooA attacking pathotype. (Steve Simpfendorfer, NSW DPI) Crown-rot: What’s in the breeding pipeline? (Phil Davies, Uni. Syd. PBI) Crown-rot tolerance in new cereal cultivars: Is there enough to base varietal decisions on? (Rob Long, B & W Rural) New crown-rot perspectives: Using Predicta-B vs stubble tests; sampling protocols for reliable results & applying test results to individual paddock situations. (Steve Simpfendorfer, NSW DPI) GRDC Update supporters Pulses (Sessions 3 & 4 on day 2) Insect management research in fababeans and canola (Melina Miles, DAFF Qld.) A new tool to test if Phytophthora is building to damaging levels in the rotation: PredictaB. How damaging is Phytophthora and applied management. (Sean Bithell, NSW DPI) Chickpea, faba bean and mungbean research to maximise yield. (Andrew Verrell, NSW DPI & Kerry McKenzie, DAFF Qld.) Ascochyta: is the pathogen changing and what are the implications for management? (Kevin Moore, NSW DPI) Soil and water (Sessions 3 & 4 on day 2) A brand new ‘you beaut’ soil water App to estimate soil water automatically: The app uses a range of inputs, including a wireless rain gauge and soil water sensors (Brett Robinosn) Nitrogen management in wheat: (Richard Daniel, NGA) • Impact of timing and slow release products on canopy management and yield • Late N for protein - do multiple low rates improve efficacy and economics? A calculator to assess the economics of deep placement of P over time (Andrew Zull, DAFF Queensland) Lab test stats on testing for deep P on the Downs: A call to action for best practice - Only 1.4% are doing it thoroughly! (Bede O’Mara, Incitec Pivot) Accurate and efficient measurement of soil water in dryland systems - issues and experience in replacing probes with EM38. Byron Birch (Rimanui Farms) and Andrew Smart (Precision Cropping Technologies) Summer Crop (Sessions 3 & 4 on day 2) Grain sorghum: Varietal reactions to heat stress and environment – what are they and why the differences? (Scott Chapman, CSIRO) Sorghum agronomy research update: Dryland and irrigated trials to maximise yield potential. Pulling together the variables of variety, sowing time, nutrition, row spacing and population. (Guy McMullen & Loretta Serafin, NSW DPI) High yield irrigated sorghum research: Yield targets for happy clients! (Trevor Philp, Pacific Seeds) Alternate end uses and emerging markets for grain sorghum and opportunities to value add. (Ross Naidoo, DAFF Qld.) 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