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Graham Centre Field Site
Corner of Prices & Coolamon Road, Wagga Wagga. Click here for directions.
The Field Site has experiments and demonstrations of our work to improve mixed farming in south eastern Australia. You will see cropping and pasture work at this site while our animal studies are at nearby locations.
The Centre’s 15 hectare field site was established in 2010. The field site is a ‘living brochure’ showcasing the Centre’s research outputs to assist farmers, advisers and natural resource managers to develop and maintain robust and sustainable farming systems. The site also allows the Centre to promote agriculture and its important contribution to every day life to the wider community.
2013 Event
Wednesday 4th September 2013 |
Graham Centre Cropping and Pasture Systems Field Forum Graham Centre Field Site Coolamon Road, Wagga Wagga Download 2013 field day program Contact: Toni Nugent tnugent@csu.edu.au |
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General Field Site Information
Research trials and demonstrations focus on integrating crop and livestock production and include:
Conservation cropping
- Stubble management
- We have a large scale experiment to compare options for farming with stubble. The plots were prepared with full size farm equipment and each is over 600 m long.
- Farm scale stubble management Information Sheet [PDF]
- Cropping sequences
- This long-term experiment is looking at the nitrogen benefits of break crops to subsequent crops and has already shown extra benefits from brown manure treatments of pulses to wheat.
- Crops Sequences: using broadleaf crops to improve wheat grain production and profitability Information Sheet [PDF]
- Comparing plant rooting depths
Weed and disease management
The latest in weed and disease management will be at the September Field Forum and October Field Day.
- Remote sensing - weed seeker, helicopter
- Crop cultivar and row spacing competition suppress weeds
- Seed burial for weed control
- Canola and blackleg
- Trial this year is looking at carryover of blackleg on 2011 canola residues and the response of canola cultivars with different resistances.
- Wheat disease management
Ruminant feedbase
- Pregnant and lambing ewes grazing dual purpose wheat
- Increasing foetal numbers with short-term grazing of lucerne
- Update of these studies will be at the Field Forum and Advisor Field Day later this year.
- Grazing on lucerne for one-week before and the first week after joining increases twinning rates in autumn-joined ewes Information Sheet [PDF]
- New pastures and forages
- EverCrop pasture mix trial
- This trial continues at the site.
- Evercrop phase II — perennial pastures in cropping systems Information Sheet [PDF]
- Comparison of digestive efficiency in sheep and goats
Integrating natural areas
- Creating a farm wetland
- Native plants
- Refuges for beneficial insects
For more information on the Field Site, please contact Dr Gordon Murray.
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