All posts tagged "research"

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  Farm Management

  On-farm monitors can boost frost knowledge

  Researchers have encouraged Western Australian growers to install temperature monitors (such as Tiny Tags and iButtons) in their crops to increase their...

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  475

  News and Views

  $9.2 million to help turn dung into dollars

  Using dung beetles to increase farm productivity and profitability will be the focus of a new project to be led by Meat...

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  481

  Farm Management

  Trials confirm oats variability in tolerance to crown rot

  A second year of oat trials were planted recently to confirm preliminary research findings of variability in the tolerance among varieties to...

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  648

  News and Views

  $16 million campaign to limit threats to Aussie bananas

  In the wake of disease incursions that have affected pockets of the banana industry, Horticulture Innovation Australia has announced a $15.9 million...

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  487

  Small Farms

  Plant biosecurity to be strengthened

  Australia’s plant biosecurity is set to strengthen after the nation’s seven plant Research and Development Corporations (RDC’s) announced a new partnership approach...

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  News and Views

  Reducing discounts in cotton colour

  A third generation Dalby farmer and Nuffield Scholar has taken steps to curb the cost of colour downgrades in cotton, which each...

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  Broadacre

  Malaria chemicals kill weeds too

  Plant biologists at The University of Western Australia have revealed the relationship between plants and the parasite that causes malaria is close...

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  730

  Farm Management

  Significant savings using variable rate irrigation

  New research from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) has found that using variable rate irrigation (VRI) could reduce water use by...

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  647

  Small Farms

  New invasive species research centre to maintain momentum

  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Barnaby Joyce, has officially announced $20 million dollars of Australian Government funding...

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  News and Views

  Unlocking the value of straw in new ag study

  A group of enterprising grain growers in the Central Highlands will investigate the potential of converting industry waste into bio-energy fuel and...