This project will provide management strategies that mitigate frost risk for lentil by assessing the ability of lentils to recover following frost events when supplied with frost tolerance promoting products, including hormones to enhance flower recovery and bactericides to act as antimicrobial agents, compared to without these products. This project is a co-investment with GRDC providing 50% of the total funding.
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.
This project will evaluate alternative herbicide strategies for controlling hard-seeded vetch in lentil crops. Field trials over two seasons will assess pre- and post-emergent applications and herbicide stacking to improve control. The results will provide practical recommendations to growers, supporting the profitability and expansion of South Australia’s pulse industry.
Initial results into research investigating crop topping at reduced rates of paraquat following the announcement of proposed restrictions on the widely used chemical by the APVMA have been released.