September - October 2011: Vol. 21, No. 3

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Features
4 Ensuring the safety of Australian crops from herbicide damage
8 Overcoming resistant wild oats - longer term approach
10 Tough workout aids sprayer development
12 Speed and pressure important for spray nozzles
13 Crop grazing shows promise as disease tool
14 Canopy trials aim to reduce risk
15 Bringing the best or Europe to Australia's HRZ
16 Seeking saponins and other compounds to fortify crops
 
Farming in foreign fields
18 This Canadian grower thrives on meeting farming's challenges
 
20 Making bioenergy yeasts strong
22 Are we underestimating the role of plants in the carbon cycle?
23 New mouse plague research
 
Marketing...
25 Our grain markets steady in global turmoil
26 Domestic grain outlook
27 Domestic crop estimates
 
36 Flipped Fordsons
37 New field peas offer growers a bacterial blight defence
40 Rapid identity check for border security pests
   
Regular Sections
2 Editorial
33 Classic Tractor Tales: McLaren tractors?
38 CRDC International Research Review: International wheat material helps target best local flowering time
42 News & New Products
44 District Reports
   
Focus Sections
Southern Australia Focus
I Consultants' Corner: Aphid control under the microscope
V Carbon stocktake reveals small change
VI Furrow sowing often worsens water relellence
VII Flag leaf spray best economic benefit in HRZ
VIII A new and profitable lupin with wider management options
   
Northern Australia Focus
I Consultants' Corner: Aphid control under the microscope
V Glyphosate resistant awnless barnyard grass seed banks
VIII Problem weed now on the 'wanted' list


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