Farming Ahead magazine regularly features CSIRO’s research for the agricultural sector. This is a list of CSIRO articles published in the magazine throughout 2006.
December 2006
This three-page article discusses a quick and accurate method of measuring diet selection in sheep grazing saltland pastures that will soon be more readily available to researchers.
This three-page article from Farming Ahead details research by CSIRO scientists who are trying to develop crops that contain high levels of the ‘healthy’ omega-3 fatty acids.
This three-page article from Farming Ahead discusses technological advances made in recent years that have helped researchers develop a new approach to the disposal of pesticide residues.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four stories about current research in CSIRO.
November 2006
This four-page article from Farming Ahead looks at CSIRO research into a new source of rainfall to aid long-term seasonal climate forecasting.
This four-page article from Farming Ahead details CSIRO research on the use of harvest bags as low-cost on-farm grain storage systems.
This article from Farming Ahead looks at how CSIRO is helping Australian wool growers stay competitive through innovative technologies. (2 pages)
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four stories about current developments in science from across CSIRO.
October 2006
This three-page article from Farming Ahead looks at CSIRO research on Pythium, a soil-borne fungal disease that infects all major grain crops and pastures.
This three-page article from Farming Ahead details how geophysical surveys can be used to estimate the plant-available water storage capacity of soil.
This three-page article from Farming Ahead looks at CSIRO research into the ability of old man saltbush to recover from heavy grazing.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details a research project by CSIRO to map the bovine genome sequence.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four stories about current developments in science from across CSIRO.
September 2006
This two-page article from Farming Ahead looks at CSIRO research on the effects of increased use of herbicides on soil nitrogen fixation in grain legumes such as field peas.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead looks at the popular pasture legume, lucerne which boasts a wide range of uses for farmers in Australia’s vast wheat–sheep areas and its potential in mixed cropping–livestock farming.
This one-page article in Farming Ahead describes how a 50-hectare lucerne stand has helped one South Australian farmer to manage a series of salt scalds on his property.
This three-page article from Farming Ahead describes how low liveweight has been identified as a predisposing factor in the susceptibility of Merino lambs to two worm species that reduce sheep health.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead describes a trial involving CSIRO researchers which has demonstrated that high levels of omega-3 fatty acids are an inherited trait in sheep, paving the way for a selective breeding to increase the proportion of beneficial fatty acids.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four stories about current developments in science from across CSIRO.
August 2006
This four-page article from Farming Ahead details findings from a pilot study on dual-purpose canola (for oilseed and grazing).
This four-page article from Farming Ahead tells how growers can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by incorporating stubble.
This one-page article details savings and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by a New South Wales farmer who reduced fertiliser use and incorporated his stubble.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four stories on current rural research from across CSIRO.
July 2006
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details CSIRO research on insecticide resistance in green peach aphids that will help farmers more effectively manage this pest.
This three-page article from Farming Ahead describes CSIRO research on the role of lucerne in preventing salinity.
This two-page Farming Ahead article discusses research in CSIRO’s Food Futures Flagship on breeding cereal grains that can produce positive human health outcomes.
This three-page article from Farming Ahead describes a six-year CSIRO maize trial on the benefits of incorporating stubble into the soil.
This one-page article from Farming Ahead looks at stubble retention and incorporation on one of the farms in CSIRO’s six-year maize trial.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four articles about current developments in science from across CSIRO.
June 2006
This three-page article from Farming Ahead details research to help farmers use nitrogen more effectively and economically, benefiting them financially and helping the environment.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details CSIRO research on how sheep and, sometimes, cattle succumb to a polioencephalomalacia (PE)-like sudden death phalaris poisoning.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead explains CSIRO research that shows that cultivation can be a valuable tool conferring financial benefits in some conditions.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead magazine has four articles with details of developments in science from across CSIRO.
May 2006
This three-page article looks at managing paddocks according to their yield potential zones to maximise crop yields while lowering input costs.
This one-page article from Farming Ahead which looks at future precision agriculture being used to combine different crops in the same paddock to maximise yield potential.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead suggests that dry sowing is not as risky as some farmers think, because seeds are tough.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details how scientists can produce entire growing plants from just a few plant cells.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details CSIRO's research into alternatives to mulesing since the mid-1980s and the current investigation of possible long-term genetic approaches.
A one-page extract from Farming Ahead which details four developments in science from across CSIRO.
April 2006
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details how, by using a naturally evolved soil bacteria as a gene ‘syringe’, scientists can introduce new and useful genes into crop plants.
This four-page article from Farming Ahead provides details about Yield Prophet, a powerful computer simulation program that can predict crop performance relatively accurately.
This two-page article addresses how grain harvest bags are gaining global popularity as a low-cost, temporary storage system for maintaining grain condition for many months post-harvest.
This one-page article tells how grain harvest bags have lifted farm profits by increasing marketing flexibility and reducing storage costs.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead details four developments in science from across CSIRO.
March 2006
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details how genetically modified crops are on the production line, offering benefits such as increased tolerance to pests, faster growth or better grain properties.
This one-page article from Farming Ahead looks at how plants in the northern hemisphere contain novel disease resistance traits which could be valuable for Australian crop plants.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details results of the joint CSIRO–Department of Agriculture Western Australia research on the problem of drench-resistance across Australia.
A two-page article from Farming Ahead about the technology that exists to grow meat in a laboratory and with which, theoretically, the world’s annual meat supply could be grown from a single cell.
This one-page article from Farming Ahead investigates how Australian beef producers could soon be breeding the horns off their cattle.
This one-page extract has four articles with details of developments in science from across CSIRO.
February 2006
This two-page article details how gene technology is providing new options for agriculture and how many farmers are already growing some form of gene-modified crops.
This three-page article addresses getting water into the soil and keeping it there as being critical to dryland crop production in Australia.
This one-page article looks at biological nitrogen fixation and its association with symbiotic Rhizobium-legume systems.
This one-page article from Farming Ahead details the adaptive discounting control (ADC) system which allows increased control over specific grain aeration conditions such as temperature and moisture.
This two-page article from Farming Ahead details how it is stocking rate, not time of shearing, which is the primary profit driver in fine wool production systems.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead magazine has four articles with details of developments in science from across CSIRO.
January 2006
This three-page article from Farming Ahead details research by CSIRO that shows how managing soil nitrogen levels during summer and autumn can reduce disease levels in subsequent crops.
This two-page article which addresses how to know the amount of water that is available to crops, to enable growers to make more confident management decisions.
This two-page article details how CSIRO has developed a new locust control measure from a strain of the naturally occurring fungus.
This four-page article from Farming Ahead looks at farms that may be operating below their optimum stocking rate and therefore missing out on extra income.
This one-page extract from Farming Ahead contains four stories about current developments in science from across CSIRO.
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