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Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 1: Row spacing in a no-till system 2007 Read Factsheet 1: Row spacing in a No-till system (PDF - 1.37MB) produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 20-03-2008	1.4mb
Internet Field Days - helping farmers to make better decisions 2007 The Virtual Agronomy section of our website allowed members to follow the progress of current trials throughout the season, plus keep updated on current issues (eg stripe rust) with photos, advice and assistance in diagnosis and treatment. The final report 'Internet Field Days - helping farmers to make better decisions' is also available from the RIRDC website. A Summary is also available on the RIRDC website.	Published 18-03-2008	2.1mb

Agronomy

Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 1: Row spacing in a no-till system 2007

Read Factsheet 1: Row spacing in a No-till system (PDF - 1.37MB) produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project

Published
20-03-2008

1.4mb

Internet Field Days - helping farmers to make better decisions 2007

The Virtual Agronomy section of our website allowed members to follow the progress of current trials throughout the season, plus keep updated on current issues (eg stripe rust) with photos, advice and assistance in diagnosis and treatment.

The final report 'Internet Field Days - helping farmers to make better decisions' is also available from the RIRDC website. A Summary is also available on the RIRDC website.

Published
18-03-2008

2.1mb

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Annual Report 2011	Published 03-05-2012	1.0mb
BCG Annual Report 2010	Published 15-04-2011	1.2mb
Annual Report 2006 Read the 2006 Annual Report	Published 16-02-2010	3.3mb
Annual Report 2008 Read the 2008 Annual Report	Published 12-02-2010	1.4mb
Annual Report 2007 Read the 2007 Annual Report	Published 09-05-2008	1.7mb
BCG Annual Report 2005 BCG Annual Report 2005	Published 01-05-2006	2.0mb
BCG Annual Report 2004 2004 BCG Annual Report	Published 08-08-2005	265kb

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Farming during a period of extreme climate variability: consequences & lessons - 2011	Published 15-11-2011	3.8mb
BCG Greenhouse Gas Emmisions final - 2011	Published 21-09-2011	3.2mb
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wimmera-Mallee farms, April 2011	Published 29-04-2011	600kb

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Making decisions in relation to cutting for hay? 2008 More information in relation to cutting for hay: What happens to hay when it heats (DPI Agriculture Note, PDF - 116KB) Haystack fires (DPI Agriculture Note, PDF - 181KB) Curing hay (AFIA publication, PDF - 706KB)	Published 02-10-2008	1.7mb
Drought - dealing with the financial ramifications 2006 Two financial forums entitled 'Drought - dealing with the financial ramifications' were held in Birchip and Horsham during December 2006. View the 53-page toolkit booklet (PDF - 2.3MB) given out on the day. It contains papers from most of the speakers.	Published 24-01-2007	2.3mb
Over the Fence - complete series 2006 You can download the complete 15-week series.	Published 25-10-2006	1.6mb
Over the Fence - complete series 2005 You can download the complete 16-week series.	Published 31-08-2006	1.9mb

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MCMA Grazing Crops 2010 Technical Bulletin - 2011	Published 10-11-2011	396kb
Grazing cereals, Rainbow VIC 2010 Four farmer grazing cereal demonstrations at Rainbow in 2009 showed no difference in yield between grazed and un-grazed crop. Grazing increased screenings in all four demonstration paddocks. When grazing cereal crops, it appears that the rules of thumb developed in the high rainfall farming zone (not grazing until plants can’t be pulled out of the ground (around GS13) and removing stock before GS30) also apply to the Wimmera Mallee. A feed value was calculated for each paddock: Smith: $12.55/ha, Fuller: $17.20/ha, Stasinowsky: $18/ha and Robinson: $24/ha.	Published 08-04-2010	1.0mb
Lotfeeding lambs 2004 Read details about a lamb feedlot we visited at Loxton, SA (March 2004)	Published 01-04-2004	428kb

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Are Disc Seeders suitable for use in the Wimmera-Mallee - 2011	Published 21-04-2011	196kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 7: Micronutrients in no-till 2009 Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 12-06-2009	370kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 5: Nitrogen in no-till 2009 Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 20-05-2009	439kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 6: Phosphorus in Victorian no-till systems 2009 Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 15-05-2009	508kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 4: Trifluralin Use in No-till Farming Systems - 2008 Read Factsheets 2, 3 and 4 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project (Factsheet 1 is available under our 2007 publications)	Published 12-05-2008	216kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 2: Moving into No-Till 2008 Read Factsheets 2, 3 and 4 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project (Factsheet 1 is available under our 2007 publications)	Published 09-05-2008	202kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 3: No-Till Seeder Set Up and Modification 2008 Read Factsheets 2, 3 and 4 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project (Factsheet 1 is available under our 2007 publications)	Published 09-05-2008	206kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 1: Row spacing in a no-till system 2007 Read Factsheet 1: Row spacing in a No-till system (PDF - 1.37MB) produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 20-03-2008	1.4mb

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Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 5: Nitrogen in no-till 2009 Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 20-05-2009	439kb
Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 6: Phosphorus in Victorian no-till systems 2009 Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 15-05-2009	508kb

Nutrition

Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 5: Nitrogen in no-till 2009

Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project

Published
20-05-2009

439kb

Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 6: Phosphorus in Victorian no-till systems 2009

Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project

Published
15-05-2009

508kb

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Critical Breaking Point - April 2012	Published 12-04-2012	2.0mb
Critical Breaking Point Final Report 2008 The final report for the project ‘Critical Breaking Point? Understanding the impact of drought on farming families in the Wimmera Mallee’ is complete. (Read more about the project) Download the Critical Breaking Point Final Report (PDF - 1.25MB). Alternatively download the report in sections: Critical Breaking Point Final Report- Section 1 (PDF - 579KB) Critical Breaking Point Final Report- Section 2 (PDF - 231KB) Critical Breaking Point Final Report- Section 3 (PDF - 333KB)	Published 10-06-2008	1.3mb
Critical Breaking Point? 2007 ‘Critical Breaking Point? Understanding the impact of drought on farming families in the Wimmera Mallee’ aimed to gain a better understanding of how Australian producers and their families are responding to drought and other pressures. Based on in-depth interviews with farming families in the Wimmera Southern Mallee region of north-western Victoria, this research used an unprecedented longitudinal approach to track the experiences of farming families during a time of severe drought and - it was expected and hoped – a period of drought recovery. The research was in two phases. Part One interviewed sixty randomly selected farming families during severe drought in February 2007. Part Two involved two follow-up interviews at six-monthly intervals (September 2007 and February 2008) with a subset of twenty of the sixty farming families interviewed in Part One. This group represented some of the younger and older families of the original sample, who were selected in order to allow us to further explore some of the particular challenges that farming families at these stages of life are facing.	Published 25-02-2008	728kb

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Flexible Farming Systems project - Factsheet 7: Micronutrients in no-till 2009 Read factsheets 5, 6 and 7 produced under the Flexible Farming Systems project	Published 12-06-2009	370kb
Identifying, understanding and managing hostile subsoils for cropping manual - Part 1 2008 Read the manual 'Identifying, understanding and managing hostile subsoils for cropping'. Due to its size, the manual is available in sections: Section 1 (PDF - 3.63MB) Section 2 (PDF - 2.11MB) Section 3 (PDF - 1.05MB)	Published 19-03-2009	3.6mb
Identifying, understanding and managing hostile subsoils for cropping View PDF sections of this reference manual for neutral-alkaline soils of south-eastern Australia: Introduction and diagnostic guide (259KB) Chapter 1 - Soils of the dryland cropping regions of Vic and SA Map of Vertosols in North West Victoria (1.1MB) Map of Calcarosols in North West Victoria (538KB) Map of Sodosols in North West Victoria (904KB) Chapter 2 - Subsoil constraints and water (728KB) Chapter 3 - Nutrient deficiencies, toxicities and imbalances (755KB) Chapter 4 - Salinity and sodicity (2.1MB) Chapter 5 - Physical constraints to root growth (1.3MB) Chapter 6 - Identifying subsoil constraints using targeted analyses (2.5MB) Chapter 7 - Field diagnostics (1.4MB) Chapter 8 - Options for managing grain production on soils with subsoil contraints (2.5MB) Chapter 9 - Economic impact of subsoil constraints (163KB)	Published 13-04-2008	259kb

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Winter Crop Summary 2011-Canola	Published 08-04-2011	125kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Wheat	Published 08-04-2011	212kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Tritcale	Published 08-04-2011	69kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Oats	Published 08-04-2011	78kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Lentils	Published 08-04-2011	69kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Field Peas	Published 08-04-2011	80kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Faba Beans	Published 08-04-2011	57kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Barley	Published 08-04-2011	139kb
Winter Crop Summary 2011-Title,Contents and Intro	Published 08-04-2011	28kb

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Herbicide Resistance Manual 2007 BCG in partnership with the Hart Field Site Group, the University of Adelaide and the Grains Research and Development Corporation undertook the project ‘Improved techniques for managing herbicide resistant ryegrass’ between 2003 and 2005. Copies of the results from the three-year project can be obtained from BCG on 03 5492 2787 or download the pdf here.	Published 25-07-2007	2.6mb
Tebuconazole significantly reduces wheat yield under terminal spring drought 2008 The original aim of this experiment was to test whether application of foliar fungicide to crops moderately resistant/moderately susceptible to stripe rust with infection detected at GS39-45 and of average yield potential (1.5-2.5t/ha) results in a profitable yield response. However, the experiment was side-tracked by a somewhat surprising result.	Published	732kb

Weeds and Disease

Herbicide Resistance Manual 2007

BCG in partnership with the Hart Field Site Group, the University of Adelaide and the Grains Research and Development Corporation undertook the project ‘Improved techniques for managing herbicide resistant ryegrass’ between 2003 and 2005. Copies of the results from the three-year project can be obtained from BCG on 03 5492 2787 or download the pdf here.

Published
25-07-2007

2.6mb

Tebuconazole significantly reduces wheat yield under terminal spring drought 2008

The original aim of this experiment was to test whether application of foliar fungicide to crops moderately resistant/moderately susceptible to stripe rust with infection detected at GS39-45 and of average yield potential (1.5-2.5t/ha) results in a profitable yield response. However, the experiment was side-tracked by a somewhat surprising result.

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Bio-diversity in a Piped Rural Water System - RIRDC Report 2007 The final report from the Diversity in a Piped System project, 'Bio-diversity in a Piped Rural Water System', is available here as well as on the RIRDC website. Printed copies are available from RIRDC on 02 6272 4218.	Published 19-03-2008	850kb
Farmers' guide to installing a wildlife pond 2007 We have produced a "Farmers' guide to installing a wildlife pond" that contains all the details you'll need to efficiently and cost-effectively enhance wildlife values in the Wimmera and Mallee within a piped water delivery system.	Published 07-03-2007	515kb

Making conservation pay

Bio-diversity in a Piped Rural Water System - RIRDC Report 2007

The final report from the Diversity in a Piped System project, 'Bio-diversity in a Piped Rural Water System', is available here as well as on the RIRDC website. Printed copies are available from RIRDC on 02 6272 4218.

Published
19-03-2008

850kb

Farmers' guide to installing a wildlife pond 2007

We have produced a "Farmers' guide to installing a wildlife pond" that contains all the details you'll need to efficiently and cost-effectively enhance wildlife values in the Wimmera and Mallee within a piped water delivery system.

Published
07-03-2007