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SANTFA 2009 Journal |
Autumn Edition Month: April Vol: 6 No: 2 |
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 Wide-row beans | |||||||||
| Title: The buzz about beans 'n' bees | Author: Mike Roberts | ||||||||
| Trials using the concept of wide rows in beans have shown a variety of results dependant of soil types, seasonal conditions and pollination. | |||||||||
| Dan Wandel experienced a pretty spectacular result last season when a paddock of beans sown in rows spaced 500 mm apart instead of 250 mm yielded twice as much as the same variety sown on the closer spacing. That has prompted Dan to continue looking at wider row spacings, even though he is not totally sure of all the factors that may have influenced the results achieved. Bill Long... | |||||||||
| Wide Row Beans | |||||||||
| Title: Higher yield from wide-row beans | Author: Mike Roberts CRC | ||||||||
| On farm self initiated trials of wide row beans was prompted by reports of Victorian successes, has resulted in Dan Wandel of Kybunga in South Australia's Mid North producing twice the tonnage however, has recognised certain factors relative to the 2008/09 growing season may have contributed to his yeild benefits. | |||||||||
| Sowing faba beans in wide rows paid off for Kybunga farmer Dan Wandel last season, with a paddock sown on 500 mm row spacing producing twice the tonnage of a crop sown in almost identical conditions but on a row spacing of 250 mm. The trial was prompted by reports of Victorian farmers’ successes with wide-row beans. Dan and his family - wife Monica, father Trevor and brother Ben ... | |||||||||
| Research Report - Stony Soils | |||||||||
| Title: Answering the challenge - no-till on stones | Author: Michael Bennet | ||||||||
| Michael Bennet set up trials on stony soils situated at Pt Kenny near Venus Bay on western Eyre Peninsula, SA. 12 different seeding systems were trialled using points, discs and sweeps. Results of which are depicted in this article. | |||||||||
| Background | |||||||||
| No-tillage in stony soil, particularly when using knife points with spring tines, poses a variety of challenges, including how to maintain seed placement while minimising damage to machinery. The results in this is report are from the second year of trials investigating options for no-till sowing in stony soils. Previous results can be found in the 2nd edition of the ‘No-Till Essential... | |||||||||
| Research Report - Ryegrass Competition | |||||||||
| Title: Crop competition effective against ryegrass | Author: Michael Bennet | ||||||||
| A report by Michael Bennet who conducted these trials to compere the ability of commercial wheat varieties to compete with annual ryegrass. The location of the trials was in the lower Eyre Peninsula of South Australia near Cummins. | |||||||||
| Background | |||||||||
| Annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidium) is a weed of concern for most growers. It is a particular problem when a population develops resistance to residual soil-applied herbicides. This trial compared the ability of four commercial wheat varieties to compete with annual ryegrass at low, moderate and high seeding rates; an extension of research reported in the Autumn 2007 edition of the No-Ti... | |||||||||