AgLife – March 28, 2018 edition

March 28, 2018

Moyston milestone Moyston’s annual sheepdog trials celebrated the 90th running of the event. Colin Reid joined the action with his dog Ned. Story, page 35. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

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pioneering, multi-nation research collaboration is expected to unlock valuable new opportunities for chickpea production in Australia.

Researchers supported by the Grains Research and Development Corporation have collected and multiplied wild chickpea species from the Middle East to build a unique genetic resource.

This has led to the researchers screening for important traits for potential incorporation into new disease-resistant, stress-tolerant, high-yielding varieties for Australian growers. The painstaking search for and collection of wild genetic material from south-east Turkey, some of which is now being housed at the Australian Grains Genebank in Horsham, has led to the capture of an immense amount of valuable genetic and trait diversity.

GRDC pulses and oilseeds manager Dr Francis Ogbonnaya said the exciting research was likely to lead to a substantial expansion of Australia’s chickpea production area.

He said this was especially the case in regions where opportunities to grow chickpeas had been limited due to the unavailability of lines tolerant to constraints such as acidic soils and abiotic and disease

stress. “Not only are chickpeas Australia’s most valuable cash crop, they also play an important role in terms of overall optimisation and sustainability of our farming systems,” he said.

“They act as a break crop for cereal rotations, they add nitrogen to the soil, assist with weed control and they add diversity to a grower’s marketing options.

“But, until now, the genetic base of the domesticated chickpeas we grow today has been very narrow and this has prevented many of our graingrowers from being able to grow chickpeas and enjoy all the benefits these pulse crops bring.”

Collaboration

The international collaboration to expand the world’s chickpea genetic resources began with a GRDC-supported collection mission to Turkey, where the legume was first domesticated, in 2013. It has since developed into a $12-million five-year research program involving eight countries.

The collection mission, the success of which was contingent on Turkish collaboration, was supervised by CSIRO ecophysiologist Dr Jens Berger who has researched chickpea biodiversity and identified serious gaps in the gene pool.

“Early indications are good for the presence of traits such as water-use efficiency, chilling tolerance and nematode resistance,” Dr Berger said.

“I am optimistic that we captured the adaptive diversity needed to improve the performance of cultivated varieties.”

The expanded genetic resource base has been shared among collaborating countries Australia, the United States, Turkey, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Canada and Morocco – and is now underpinning a series of GRDC project investments that are seeking to introduce valuable new traits from the wild species into domesticated chickpeas suitable for production in Australia.

The wild genetic material is being screened for important traits such as tolerance to acidic soils, drought, heat and cold, as well as water-use efficiency and resistance to diseases such as ascochyta blight – the most important disease of chickpeas in Australia – phytophthora root rot and root lesion nematode.

Dr Ogbonnaya said the likely expansion of Australian chickpea production could also promote opportunities in the area of functional nutrition.

“It’s certainly exciting times for the research community, our plant breeders, our growers and community,” he said.

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YEP, I’M LISTENING! Colin Reid’s dog Ned pricks up his ears on hearing a command while wheeling sheep during Moyston’s 90th anniversary sheepdog trials.

Sheepdog milestone at Moyston Skills, intelligence and relationships between person and animal were under the spotlight at Moyston’s annual sheepdog trials.

The historic trials, on a Moyston events calendar for the past 90 years, attracted record attendances as well as many life members keen to celebrate the 90-year milestone.

Dogs and their owner-trainers came from across Victoria and interstate, with Andrew Ireland from Port Broughton and his working dog Oakdowns Byn winning the event’s open-trial category.

Member for Lowan Emma Kealy attended the event to present prizes, re-enacting an historic tradition involving district political representatives.

Ms Kealy and the oldest member of the district’s Burke family, WORKMATE: Rebecca Lilley and her dog Alpha wait to Shirley Davis, also cut a cake to compete at Moyston.

Pictures: PAUL CARRACHER celebrate the occasion.

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What many people do not know is that severe fires create their own ‘weather’. It becomes almost like a cyclone, with the wind suddenly changing to the opposite direction. That’s often when tragedy strikes.

I’ve covered all major bushfires in Victoria since Linton, including fires in Gippsland that burned for more than a month, covering hundreds of thousands of hectares There were also the Grampians fires in 2006 where livestock losses were horrendous.

I’ll never forget a farmer saying he’d calculated where the fire would come from and how it would be stopped on the road, so he’d only insured that half of the farm. It started by lighting strike and destroyed most of the farm. The homestead was saved, but the livestock losses were horrendous.

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It was this catastrophic event and the following Royal Commission that led to the CFA changing its message from, ‘be prepared, and defend your home’, to ‘you should leave early’.

This message though and the fact that such catastrophic events will no longer be ‘once in a lifetime’ doesn’t seem to have resonated enough.

I visited a friend’s property in the north-east bordering state forest just last week and they had a plan, but it relied on the prevailing winds sending the fire downhill, slowing it, giving them time to fill their gutters with water and seek refuge in a dam.

They clearly thought I was kidding when I said, if there’s a fire, there’s one way out of here and you’d better be hitting the road as early as you can.

The message has to be: When emergency services warn of extreme fire danger, they mean it.

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BCG will hold its Main Field Day on September 12, and the same two trials would be sown at this site for a Mallee comparison and application.

Trials will include nine varieties of winter and spring wheats and four sowing times targeted at March 20, April 4, April 20 and May 4.

Part of the trial will be irrigated at sowing with dripper lines, with three irrigation rates of 10, 20 and 50 millimetres. The first time of sowing at Narraport was Tuesday last week.

The Narraport research site has a heavier soil type, which is fairly representative of the Birchip area and due to a dry summer the ground was hard and cloddy.

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Birchip Cropping Group will again sow two trials at Longerenong as part of a Grains Research and Development Corporation managingearly-sown-wheat project.

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