
Contract Broadacre and Horticultural R&D trials
Australian based company specialising in the conduct of efficacy and residue trials.
Principal Director - Ross Holding
Trials associated with the development of crop protection chemicals and other inputs into horticulture and broadacre eg:-
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Site Index
Location
Photos of recent projects
Projects completed
Map indicating areas of major agricultural crops in Victoria.
Weeds , Pests , Diseases and associated Crops
Soil Water Monitoring Service and Irrigation
Contact
Location

Most major broadacre and horticultural areas are within easy reach. Trials evaluating all types of crop protection chemicals can be completed with the following benefits:-

Photos of recent projects
Cereal fungicide trials- photo depicting barley just prior to application of trial treatments for net blotch control.
Grape trials- bunch closure during a Botrytis trial in grapes.
Potato trials- Photo showing trial evaluating new fungicides for Alternaria control.
Pasture Trials- photo showing herbicide tolerance trial in pasture
Harvesting cereal trials
Weed control in turf
Cereal seed dressing for disease control in cereals- stripe rust
Brush weed control- blackberries
Ragwort control in pasture
Aerial applicatin of fungicides in potatoes- helicopter
Growth regulator in pasture- measuring dry weight yields.
Contract projects we have completed in the past
Over the last 6 years, projects have been completed in the following areas.

Map indicating areas of major agricultural crops in Victoria.


Main crops and their associated weeds , diseases and pests
The following tables indicate the major crops and associated weeds, pests , diseases where efficacy or residue trial work can be most easily completed.
Broadacre
| Crop | Weeds | Insects pests | Diseases | Other |
| Cereals (Wheat Barley Oats Triticale) | Annual ryegrass (Lolium ) Wild oats( Avena ) Wild radish (Raphanus ) Toadrush (Juncus) Wild mustard (Sinapis ) Indian Hedge Mustard Brome grass (Bromus ) Barley grass (Hordeum ) Phalaris (Phalaris ) Silver grass (Vulpia ) Thistles Capeweed (Arctotheca ) Skeleton Weed (Chondrilla ) Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca ) Amsinckia White Iron Weed (Buglossoides) Patersonc curse (Echium ) Heliotrope Wild turnip ( Brassica) Hoary cress (Cardaria ) Medics (Medicago) Clovers ( Trifolium) Vetches (Vicia) Fumitory (Fumaria) Erodium Deadnettle ( Lamium) Loosestrife (Lythrum) Oxalis/Soursob Wireweed (Polygonum) Volunteer crops | Redlegged Earthmite Armyworm Cockchafer | Take all Rhizoctonia Rusts Yellow leaf spot Septoria Net blotch | Growth regulation Nutrient deficiencies |
| Legumes (Fieldpeas Chickpeas Lentils Vetch Faba beans) | As above + Volunteer cereals | Redlegged Earthmite Lucerne flea Aphids Pea Weevil Budworm ( Heliothis) | Downy Mildew Ascochyta Chocolate spot Botrytis Phytophthora Pythium | Nutrient deficiencies |
| Oilseeds ( Canola) | As above + Volunteer cereals | Redlegged Earthmite Aphids Plutella | Blackleg | Nutrient deficiencies |
| Pasture ( Clover medic, Lucerne) | As above + Volunteer cereals Bentgrass Serrated tussock | Redlegged Earthmite Armyworm Cockchafer Lucerne flea Aphids | Pythium Phytopthora Damping off | Nutrient deficiencies |
Horticulture
| Grapes (Wine, Table) | General grasses + broadleaf weeds Hairy willow herb | Lightbrown apple moth (LBAM) Grapevine moth | Powdery mildew Downy mildew Botrytis Blackspot | |
| Vegetables (Brassicas, Lettuce Leeks Bunching vegetables eg Parsley Silverbeet Rocket) | General grasses + broadleaf weeds Mallows Nettles | Aphids Plutella | White rust Leaf spots Sclerotiinia Downy mildew | |
| Pomefruit | General grasses + broadleaf weeds | LBAM Codling moth Mites | Apple Scab Powdery mildew Storage rots | Growth regulation |
| Stonefruit | General grasses + broadleaf weeds | LBAM Mites Green peach aphid | Brown rot Blossom bight Rusts | |
| Tomatoes | General grasses + broadleaf weeds + Blackberry Nightshade | Heliothis | Bacterial leaf spot Target spot (Alternaria ) Leaf spots | |
| Berry fruit | General grasses + broadleaf weeds | Aphids | Grey Mould (Botrytis) | |
| Potatoes | General grasses + broadleaf weeds + Blackberry Nightshade | Potato moth Aphids | Irish Blight Target Spot (Alternaria) Pink rot Rhizoctonia | |
| Carrots | General grasses + broadleaf weeds + Blackberry Nightshade | Aphids | Leaf spot | |
| Greenpeas Snowpeas | General grasses + broadleaf weeds + Blackberry Nightshade | Aphids | Powdery mildew Downy mildew | |
| Onions | General grasses + broadleaf weeds | Downy mildew |
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