Project Overview
Ag Excellence Alliance is leading an innovative project to bring together grains industry and natural resources management (NRM) people to work together in extending sustainable farm practices on key production issues that have clear environmental outcomes. The project is working with seven NRM/CMA/LLS regions and five farming systems groups across South Australia, Victoria and NSW to identify their production issues, and then to develop and deliver an extension and communications program to address the issues.
See Project brochure here
Timeframe
1 April 2014 – 31 December 2016
Project Outcomes
Comparing Break Crop Performance in the SA Mallee
Click here to see the video
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2016 Publications Just Released
‘Guidelines to managing key weed species across low-rainfall regions of south-eastern Australia’
– Practical strategies for effective integrated weed control
Download the entire publication here OR the individual chapters below:
Chapter 1_Non-chemical weed control
Chapter 2_Getting the best out of herbicides
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‘Guidelines to managing sandy soils across low-rainfall regions of south-eastern Australia’
– Practical strategies to optimise productivity, profitability and environmental sustainability
Download the entire publication here OR the individual chapters below:
Chapter 1_Understanding sandy soils
Chapter 2_Water repellent soils
Chapter 3_Crop nutrition in sandy soils
Chapter 4_soil-borne root diseases
Chapter 5_Weed control on sandy soils
Chapter 6_Managing erosion on sandy soils
Chapter 8_Managing local seeps
Chapter 9_Subsurface compaction
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Newsletters
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Mallee Region
A Compendium – Current and recent broad acre sandy soils projects in the South Australian Mallee
Click here to download case studies of current and recent broad acre sandy soils projects in the South Australian Mallee. Developed by Mallee Sustainable Farming through “Production and Environment Partnerships”, an Ag Excellence project funded by the Grains Research & Development Corporation.
Tri-state Forum – 2015 Mallee Sustainable Farming (MSF)
See presentations here and the forum booklet here
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Eyre Peninsula
Case Study – Variable Rate Technology on Dune Swale Systems
Kerran & Mel Glover (Lock Farmers)
Lock farmers have been looking at dune swale nutrition and plant establishment on non-wetting sands….
SU Demonstration Plots
50% germination difference between plants sown
in row and in inter row
N deficient Barley
Grower Guide – Assessing Legume Nodulation on the Upper EP
Download the flyer here
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National Landcare Conference presentation
Jen Lillecrapp delivered a presentation to the National Landcare Conference in Melbourne, in September 2014. See Jen’s conference paper here
Click here download the power point presentation
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Communication & Extension Plan
The project is working with seven NRM/CMA/LLS regions and five farming systems groups across South Australia, Victoria and NSW to identify their production issues, and then to develop and deliver an extension and communications program to address the issues.
Communication & Extension Plan
