Development and Validation of Agronomic Practices to Realise the Genetic Potential of Grain Crops Grown Under a High Yie
Tender ID: 374280
Tender Details
Tender Description
This investment will develop and validate crop specific agronomic practices to maximise system profitability. The focus will be:
* optimising the return on nitrogen through improved use efficiency
* improving the understanding of N-form, timing and rate in the context of irrigation timing and inter-related agronomic decisions
* understanding how to consistently optimise yield (in the context of water price, input costs and commodity price) for the crops where gaps are most apparent:
* faba bean (the pulse crop with the most potential for irrigated systems)
* chickpea (an emerging high value pulse, important in crop sequence to provide a cereal disease break)
* durum (the major option to increase profitability of the cereal phase of rotations). Durum also has stronger straw strength compared to bread wheat
* canola (higher yields provide scope for significant increase in profitability)
* maize (the summer crop with the greatest scope to improve returns under a double cropping system)
* generating data to inform whole farm sensitivity analysis undertaken as part of PROC-9175816 “Optimise farm scale returns from irrigated grains: Maximising $ return per megalitre of water” increasing grower capacity to respond to varying water and commodity price through agronomic practices targeted to the unique constraints of irrigated cropping systems.
Location
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
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