FAR Focus 9 - Crop Sensing for Nitrogen Management
FAR Focus • 01 May 2013
FAR Cultivar Evaluation Booklets
FAR Cultivar Evaluation Booklets • 18 April 2013
New developments in CPT include a new feed and biscuit wheat site established at Fairlie, along with an additional replicate not sprayed with fungicide which has been included at the Chertsey, Methven and Temuka feed and biscuit wheat sites. Assessments from these unsprayed plots contribute to Crop Action in giving a heads up on what diseases are active going through the season.
Several newer cultivars are performing well. In...
FAR Focus 8 - Faba beans: A growers' guide
FAR Focus • 25 February 2013
Faba beans (Vicia faba) have the potential to be a valuable component of the arable cropping rotation. They can improve soil fertility and structure, and when used as a break crop, they allow for alternative approaches to disease, pest and weed management.
This FAR Focus summarises three years of Faba bean research on topics such as; the effect of time of sowing and plant population on canopy structure and yield, how spring and winter bean cultivars compare when sown at...
FAR Focus 7 - Crop Pollination
FAR Focus • 25 February 2013
Pollination is a very important, but often poorly understood part of the economic production of many crops. The aim of this manual is to provide growers, beekeepers, and pollination specialists with the information necessary to optimise the pollination of insect-pollinated commercial crops. The manual begins (Section 1) with a description of the process of pollination, including a summary of the species involved. Honey bee biology and behaviour is described in Section 2. Section 3 covers issues around obtaining and managing...
From The Ground Up Issue 72
FAR Newsletter • 25 February 2013
This issue of From the Ground Up includes information and stories on the Review of Overseer, Glyphosate resistance, Early sowing dates for wheat and Cereal Performance Trials.
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