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NSW Department of Primary Industries
- Eight steps to successful perennial pasture establishment
- Inoculating and pelleting pasture legume seed (Primefact 1537, 2017)
- Pulses: Putting life into the farming system – An insight from growers who are making pulses work (2017)
Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)
Recent Projects:
The "Increasing the effectiveness of nitrogen fixation in pulse crops through extension and communication of improved inoculation and crop management practices in the southern region" project is renewing and developing critical resources highly transferable across Australia and commodity groups.
Listen and learn: practical pulse growing explained
Listen and watch the project’s latest podcasts and videos!
Podcast series:
- Pre-sowing inoculation of pulses
- In-season nodulation assessment
- The impact of acid soils in nodulation
- Tips for best practice dry sowing when inoculating
Webinar:
Boosting on farm nitrogen fixation in pulses
Poster: Inoculating Legumes: Tips for optimising nodulation (2020)
Leading guidelines to inoculation in Australia:
- Inoculating legumes: practice and science (2023)
- Inoculating legumes – The Back Pocket Guide (2013)
- Grow Note TM Tips & Tactics – Legumes and Nitrogen Fixation: Use the four-step ‘nod check’ to assess your legume nodulation (June 2017)
- Rhizobial Inoculants Fact Sheet – Harvesting the Benefits of Inoculating Legumes (2013)
- Nitrogen Fixation Fact Sheet – Nitrogen Fixation and N Benefits of Chickpeas and Faba Beans in Northern Farming Systems (2017)
Helpful Videos on GRDC’s Ground Cover TV:
- Video: Rhizobial inoculation is all about having high numbers of rhizobia (2018), Dr Matt Denton, University of Adelaide (4:43 minutes)
- Video: Legumes – to inoculate or not (2014), Dr Maarten Ryder, University of Adelaide (3 minutes)
- Video: Legumes – Sowing Preparation (2014), Dr Maarten Ryder, University of Adelaide (3:16 minutes)
Specific to optimising performance from rhizobial inoculants in sub-optimal conditions:
- Ground Cover TV: Optimising N in grain legumes a challenge in regions with acid soils (2016), Ross Ballard & Dr Liz Farquharson, South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) 5:54 minutes & Legumes in acid soils (2018)
- Optimising performance from rhizobial inoculants for pulse crops sown in sub-optimal soil conditions (2018)
- Maximising the nitrogen (N) benefits of rhizobial inoculation (2014)
- New Group E Rhizobia Inoculant for Field Peas, Lentil and Vetch Fact Sheet(July 2023)
- New Group F Rhizobia Inoculant for Faba and Broad Bean Fact Sheet (July 2023)
Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)
Recent Projects:
Other organisations and useful resources
- National Rhizobium Steering Committee (NRSC)
- Grain Research & Development Corporation (GRDC)
- Pulse Australia
- Legume Rhizobium Sciences (LRS), (formerly Centre for Rhizobium Studies)
- South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI)
- The University of Adelaide- School of Agriculture, Food and Wine - A series of grower guide to assessing legume nodulation across the sub-regions of the grain industry’s southern region.
- The International Legume Inoculant Genebank (ILIG) is the national repository for Australia's genebank of rhizobia strains
