Projects
- Hamilton Stubble Nutrient
VICTORIA’S south-west provides the perfect conditions for growing crops. The long cool growing season combined with annual rainfall of up to 700mm has seen the area under crops rapidly increase to total more than 500,000 hectares for the 2007 season.
- NLP Stubble
With funding from the National Landcare Program, SFS has embarked on this extensive research agenda with soil management as the major concern.
- Healthy Soils
Healthy Soils for Sustainable Farms is a programme funded by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry through the Natural Heritage Trust, in partnership with the Grains Research and Development Corporation and managed by Land & Water Australia.
- Grain & Graze
Grain & Graze is a program aimed at finding local solutions to some of the major problems facing cropping and grazing farmers in South - Western Victoria. Grain & Graze has five integrated projects which aim to help mixed grazing and cropping farmers lift profits and enhance the environment.
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Precision Ag & Controlled Traffic
The Farming Systems Site developed from a partnership between Shelford/Mt Mercer farmer Dave Stephens and DPI Agronomist Andrew Whitlock. The idea was to have a focus paddock for the Controlled Traffic Farming Groups. Support from Southern Farming Systems and local industry has seen this idea develop into a long term farm scale systems evaluation site. -
Gippsland Grain and Cereal Forage Industry
The full report for the launch of the scoping study "An expanded grain and cereal forage industry, Gippsland" can be downloaded from this page. -
Canopy & Disease Management
Optimising cereal profitability in the high rainfall zone through the integrated of disease management and canopy management principles. -
Water Use Efficiency
By validating and integrating more profitable and sustainable crop production practices and technologies into full cropping/mixed farming systems,this project aimsto improve whole farm water use efficiencies. -
Integrated Weed Management
This project aims to manage herbicide resistance and sustain conservation farming systems.
