Broadleaf weed in lentils are a major contributor to yield loss. On lighter soils with a history of pasture, capeweed proliferates. Lentils are expanding into these areas. Combined with early sowing, capeweed has had a large impact on lentil grain yield. This project aims to find solutions to capeweed and other common broadleaf weeds in lentil production systems.
This project will evaluate the profitability and sustainability of cropping systems using lentils with the new metribuzin (MET) tolerance trait in combination with the imidazolinone (IMI) tolerance trait compared to those using the IMI trait alone. Lentil expansion areas of the SA southern Mallee and Eyre Peninsula will be the focus where problem weeds from historic farming systems and herbicide residues on coarse textured, low organic matter soils are constraints to production.
The aim of this project is to assess selected amendments or additives to monoammonium phosphate to reduce the precipitation of soluble phosphorus in calcareous, alkaline and high phosphorus buffering index soils in SA’s Lower South East.
This project aims to develop agronomically reliable durum wheat lines resistant to crown rot which will be released to growers through AGT. The effect of crown rot resistance in durum lines developed by SARDI will be evaluated and demonstrated to growers through the use of inoculated field trials. This project also aims to provide growers with greater reliability of achieving the premiums available for durum production in all areas.
This project addresses one of SAGIT’s issues of significance, a critical evaluation of products claimed to improve the efficacy of phosphorus fertilisers. This will be done by focusing on improving Phosphorus Use Efficiency (PUE) on moderate to highly calcareous soils that are present on Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, Mid-North and the Upper South East broadacre cropping regions.