Research

EP Ag Vision 2050: A shared Vision for farming on the Eyre Peninsula in 2050

Across August and September, a wide range of farming and agricultural research stakeholders were consulted for their views on farming on the EP in 2050. Their perspectives were sought to help shape a draft picture of the features, drivers and enablers of a strong, sustainable farming industry on the Eyre Peninsula well into the future….

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Effective control of brome grass in the southern and western cropping zones

By May 2027, the economic impact of brome grass will be reduced by 10% across the low rainfall zones of the Western and Southern Regions through the implementation of specific integrated weed management strategies. On the Eyre Peninsula this project will include A 3 year crop sequence x weed management trial on the Upper EP…

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De-risking the seeding program

De-risking the seeding program. Adoption of key management practices for the success of dry early sown crops. Dry  and  early  sowing  of  cereal  crops  is  a  practice  commonly  employed  across southern Australian cropping regions to combat the increasingly erratic and delayed opening  season  rainfall. Whilst there has been a large amount of research and development…

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Packaging Soil CRC tools to enhance the extension and adoption of improved soil management practices

This project will support four grower groups (including AIR EP) to critically evaluate their current extension practices used to engage farmers and to identify which extension tools developed in Program 1 of the Soil CRC can be combined to improve the adoption of innovation. Many significant learnings and outcomes have been developed in Program 1…

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Soil CRC Agricultural Farm Practices Survey 2024

This project considers the actual and intended practice of a broad base of farmers across Australian farming systems via a mail-based survey. The survey will be a modified but largely similar survey to one conducted on Eyre Peninsula in 2020 (see results of 2020 survey). Improved understanding of farmers and their practices in our partner…

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Matching soil performance indicators to farming systems

The Soil CRC Scoping Study on soil performance indicators (Project 2.1.01) concluded that there was no universal suite of indicators that could measure soil performance, but rather that indicators should be matched to their intended purpose (‘horses-for-courses’). This project will use social research, data analytics and soil indicator domain expertise to determine how commonly used…

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EP Ag Chats – Connecting Generations of Farmers on Eyre Peninsula

Production of a podcast series of six episodes connecting the younger generation of Eyre Peninsula farmers with the experienced generation of Eyre Peninsula farmers. This would be series 2 of the successful “EP Ag Chats” podcast produced in 2022 as part of the Young Farmer Networking Project. Listen to the previous podcasts here.      …

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Resilient EP Documentation

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AIR EP Member Days 2023: Nutrition

Over 60 growers, researchers and advisors attended AIR EP Members days on 5 & 6 July. Upper Eyre Peninsula was hosted at Wudinna, with Lower Eyre Peninsula at Cummins. Attendees were treated to presentations from the following speakers on a range of nutrition topics. Prof. Mike McLaughlin, University of Adelaide- Behaviour of fertiliser in soils…

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Eyre Peninsula internship in applied grains research 2024

2024 Internship to be hosted by EPAG Research. This project anuually engages a recent graduate to work for 12 months as an intern/trainee in applied grains research, development and extension, located on Eyre Peninsula.   During the 12 months the intern will gain skills in trial design, trial management, sampling, statistical analysis, general crop agronomy,…

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