CAMBERWELL, 3124 Northern and Central NSW NVT Advisory … · October 4, 2013, at PBI Narrabri...
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Northern and Central NSW NVT Advisory Committee meeting
October 4, 2013, at PBI Narrabri
2.00p start, after the PBI Field day and the provided lunch.
Northern and Central NSW NVT Advisory Committee meeting
October 4, 2013, at PBI Narrabri
2.00p start, after the PBI Field day and the provided lunch.
Attendees: Graeme Callaghan, James Miller, Jeff O’Neill, Briel Jackson, Kevin Kilby, Don
McCaffery Service Provider, Alan Bedggood NVT manager
Apology: Daryl Bartelen, Brad Coleman, Penny Heuston, Leigh Jenkins, Loretta Serafin, Bill
Yates
Agenda
1 Seasonal roundup - Don McCaffery 2 Commercial varieties in NVT trials - a review for 2014 3 the new Cluster Analysis - where is it at, what will it look like 4 an NVT Review
1 Seasonal Roundup
Don's presentation was supported with the weekly rainfall maps at the end of this report as
well as the sowing dates table and the Site Visits table.
Sowing dates of 2013 NVT trials in the north of NSW
The autumn rainfall break did not arrive until mid May, delaying seeding by several weeks.
The exception to this was the band of rain that went through the north of NSW, just below
the Qld border. This allowed many of the faba bean trials and some early wheat trials to get
sown.
Other trials were sown dry on the promise of rain. However, most of the trial sites began
sown at or just after the rains on May 14. Of course, once it started raining, it continued and
wet paddocks delayed some sites from being sown.
Don's comments to be added here
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Site Visits table for NSW as at September 25, 2013
2 Commercial varieties in NVT
The varieties received by Graincorp for the
Newcastle port zone has been provided to allow
review of the important varieties to remain in
NVT trials.
Following discussions, the recommendations
were to:
retain Ellison wheat
retain Urambie barley
The number of entries in the NVT trials in
northern NSW do not exceed contracted
numbers so there is no undue pressure to
remove varieties.
The "newly" released varieties that have reached
five years from release and are questioned as to their retention in NVT trials are not included
in northern trials. eg Axe, Barham, Espada, Mace.
3 The new cluster analysis
The new Factor Analytic analysis method (informerly referred to as cluster analysis) is
closer to being developed and will be implemented for the 2013 long term, across site
analyses.
Based upon developments to date, there has been an App produced that will allow the
results of the analysis to be interrogated and refined to specific locations of interest.
The folllowing screen views of the App show what sort of results can be obtained. The views
can be based upon state, region, location or groups of locations. However, there are no
borders when groups of trials are selected (Dynamic region).
Important commercial variety delivered
to Graincorp from North NSW in 2012
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The views can be in table format or graphical. Varieties can be chosen or removed from the
graphical presentations.
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4 an NVT review
GRDC requested an informal review of the NVT Advisory Committees to provide feedback
for the next round of NVT starting in the 2015 season.
A series of statements were posed and responses were recorded and voted upon by the
attendees. The responses are recorded and "relative importance" indicated by the voles
provided. A "sticker" indicated its importance and a number on the sticker indicated whether
it was being achieved (5) or not being achieved (1).
What are the Expectations of the NVT program (3 stickers)
Unbiased, stastical comparison of all varieties 5,5,5,5,5
Trials grown to best practice 2,3,4,3
All regions having trials 4
WUE as part of NVT 1,1,1,1,1
Plain interpretation of results What are the expected Outputs from NVT (3 stickers)
Unbiased, independent variety comparison data 5,5,5,5,5
Sowing guides 4,5
WUE interpretation 1,2,1,1
Disease ratings
Grain quality (screening, gn wts, oils, etc - aggregated) 2,1,2,1
What are the most useful Communication tools (3 stickers)
DAs, advisors 1,1,1
sowing guide 5,5,5,5,5
website 4,4,4,4,4
Apps 1,1
Groundcover magazine
What are the communication gaps (2 stickers)
DAs and Advisors (now that DPI NSW have lost so many) 1,1,1,1
field days 1,1,1,1,1,
Apps 1
What would be included in the Ultimate Variety Guide
the NSW Sowing Guide it has it all it is pitched at the right level.
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There was some discussion around the future involvement of DPI NSW in the NVT program but nothing could be resolved as any decision would come from senior management in due course. Appendix 1. Weekly rainfall in 2013.
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