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Environment and Farm
Management
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Details for 2006-07 |
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Strategies
Expected Key
Outputs
Expected Key
Outcomes
New
Projects being funded or under consideration in 2006-07 |
Program
Overview
2005-06
Program Details |
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Key
Strategies for 2006-07
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Improved Inter-EMS Co-ordination
- Improving linkages and coordination between EMS activities and other
areas that are crucially relevant to food and fibre production.
Reviewing GIS Packages - Reviewing
GIS packages and computer-based farm management services available to farmers.
Supporting Innovation - Supporting
innovation and the use of frontier technologies that are applicable across
industry sectors and improve the efficiency of food, fibre and bioenergy
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Expected
Key Outputs for 2006-07
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Electrical root mapping to establish relationships
between electric field intensity, root position and root length density,
using high frequency electrical measurements. The project is helping understand
deep rootedness, which is important in water management and drought tolerance.
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Utilizing NIRS and DNA technologies to
manage rangeland sustainability. This project uses frontier technology
to understand the diet of rangeland animals and tests a new tool to optimise
production while simultaneously maintaining environmental sustainability
(and species biodiversity) of the rangelands.
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Diversity in piped system is a project
at Birchip that is evaluating four different water access design structures
for native fauna to determine which design achieves the best biodiversity
outcomes.
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Analysing known and likely outcomes of
current EMS activities and R & D.
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Review of property management planning
software and accreditation processes that enable easy visualisation of
complex data management and attainment of standards.
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Expected
Key Outcomes for 2006-07
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Inland saline aquaculture in evaporation
basins producing a regular supply of brine shrimp in commercial quantities
and focusing on building sustainable markets for the product.
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Identification of crude extracts of fenugreek
and trifolium that have bioactive compounds with anticancer activity for
both breast and prostate cancer cell lines.
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Identification of native plants that grow
lacewings that prey on thrips and aphids in horticulture crops.
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