RCSN Trial Project Updates
The following is a list of RCSN trial project updates which were presented at the RCSN Joint Meeting on 1-2 March 2017 by related port zone and with the name of the person who presented on behalf of the project.
Geraldton
Kwinana East
Kwinana West
Albany
Esperance
Combined Across Multiple Port Zones
Geraldton
- Business training for WA farm business managers - options (Peter Newman)
- Early seeding trials for the northern part of the the Geraldton port zone (Karl Suckling)
Kwinana East
- Reducing varietal selection risk through understanding varietal performance with difference management packages (Andrew Crook & Vanessa Stewart)
- Options for herbicide resistance management and lime incorporation methods (Peter Nash)
- Wodjil workout - rise of the pH (Ty Henning)
- Case studies of growers using novel techniques to utilise available moisture in the Kwinana East port zone (Melissa Williams)
Kwinana West
- Machinery replacement options for growers in the Kwinana West port zone (Ben White)
- Compilation of lime trial results and grower case studies (Anne Wilkins and Bill Bowden)
- Regionally specific agronoy projects (RSAP): early seeding trials for the Kwinana West port zone (Geoff Fosbery and Brad Joyce)
Albany
Esperance
Combined Across Multiple Port Zones
- Spray fallow techniques for better moisture conservations; better winter/summer weed control (Grant Thompson) (Geraldton/Esperance)
- Assessment of some harvest weed seed management options for Kwinana West, Kwinana East and Esperance port zone growers (Peter Newman)
- Partners in Grain WA's INSPIRE Summit 2016 (Jules Alvaro)
- Review and demonstration of different rotations and break crops for Western Austrlian growers - WA Crop Sequence Calculator Workshops (Rob Sands) (Geraldton, Kwinana East and Esperance)
- Is Triazine resistent silver grass a looming threat for the mixed cropping belt in central and southern WA? (Garren Knell) (Albany and Kwinana West)
- Compaction mitigation options for growers in the Albany and Kwinana West port zones (Dean Revell)
- Investing double break (or stacked roations) options (Chris Wilkins) (Kwinana East and Kwinana West)
- Case studies of growers managing inputs using Variable Rate Technology (Niki Curtis) (Geraldton and Esperance)
- Review and demonstration of different rotations and break crops for WA growers (Kelly Cussons) (Kwinana East and Geraldton)
- Investigating double break (or stacked rotations) options for growers in the Kwinana East and Kwinana West port zones (Dani England)