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Closed ATM View - PROC-9176516

Fallow Management and the Economic Costs

Contract Administrator

Phone: 0892304600

Email Address: western@grdc.com.au

Document(s) Contact Name:
Contract Administrator

Document(s) Contact Phone:
0892304600

Document(s) Contact Email:
western@grdc.com.au

ATM ID:

PROC-9176516

Agency:

Grains Research and Development Corporation

Category:

70140000 - Crop production and management and protection

Close Date & Time:

25-Feb-2022 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
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Publish Date:

20-Jan-2022

Location:

ATM Type:

Request for Tender

Multi Agency Access:

Panel Arrangement:

Multi-stage:

Description:

The Grower Network members within the low rainfall zones are looking for more analysis on fallow systems in the rotations. They would like to understand what is the correlation between water and soil nutrition and fallows and what soils fallow <span">works better on? Is the economic benefit greater than the opportunity cost of fallow in the rotations? Can a pasture be seeded as a green fallow (disease/break), to develop a system that doesn't look like a browned out/bared fallow system. Is there a pasture legume that can be sown opportunistically early in the summer and then sprayed out prior to seeding the winter crop?

Fallow treatments were used in the CSIRO lead project - CSA00056 – Developing farming systems for the LRZ of WA. The project team reported a 0.62t/ha yield increase in wheat after fallow when compared to the continuous wheat rotation at Merredin. At Hyden the team reported a 0.45t/ha increase in wheat yield in the fallow-wheat-fallow-wheat rotation when compared to the continuous wheat rotation. The protein of the following wheat crop has also been seen to increase post a fallow rotation in these trials.

While these results are significant within this trial, the economics of including fallow in the rotation have not been measured along with the yield and protein. There is however clear data showing an increase in the partial gross margins when comparing break crops and wheat rotations against continuous wheat rotations and the analysis is conducted over multiple paddocks and multiple years. Similar results have also been found in a 2013 COGGO funded CFIG project with Bass barley following a fallow rotation having the highest gross margins in this trial.

This investment will incorporate the different versions of fallow treatments that Grower Network members have identified, with the economics (positive and negative) of incorporating fallow in the farming system rotation.

Growers have raised this issue to ensure than they are fully informed regarding the benefits and constraints of introducing fallows into their systems, the economics of different fallow systems and the risks that may be managed when introducing fallows into the farming system rotation.

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Conditions for Participation:

•The Tenderer and any subcontractor must not be named on the Consolidated List, being the list of persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions or travel bans under Australian sanction laws, as maintained by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

•The Tenderer and any subcontractor must not have a judicial decision against it (not including decisions under appeal) relating to employee entitlements and who have not paid the claim.

•The Tenderer must be a single legal entity or recognised firm of partners.

The Tenderer and any proposed subcontractor must be compliant with the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012

Timeframe for Delivery:

from February 2022 to March 2024

Estimated Value (AUD):

From $230,000.00 to $230,000.00

Address for Lodgement:

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