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Best practice for early sowing opportunities
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Best practice for early sowing opportunities
Lead organisation: AIREP
Hub members and partners involved: SARDI
Project Category: Hub Projects
Project summary: 

This project investigates best-practice early sowing opportunities for producers in low rainfall areas on Eyre Peninsula, considering fertiliser rates, seeding depth and variety.

Demonstration sites to be established in low rainfall farming systems to:
  1. Demonstrate practices to reduce fertiliser toxicity and increase plant establishment in early sowing situations.
  2. Determine if seeding opportunities and plant establishment can be increased using new long coleoptile wheat varieties or seed priming.
  3. Determine if there are other measurable benefits to the farming system – e.g. biomass production (for livestock feed), weed control and yield from early sowing.

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