Southern Pulse Agronomy - Victoria delivers localised development trials and extension
activities to close the economic yield gap and maximise faming systems benefits from
pulses (lentil, faba bean, chickpea, field pea, vetch and lupin) production.
To do this
a hub and spoke model of grower-driven validation and demonstration trials has been
implemented. There are 3 major validation ‘HUB’ sites and 6 on farm demonstration
‘SPOKE’ sites.
‘HUB’ sites focus on a combination of sub-regional grower driven D&E priorities and
extension of new research learnings from aligned projects delivering a series of fully
replicated trials.
‘SPOKE’ sites focus on-farm with one to two simple trials at each site which may include full
scale strip trials, and/or small demonstration plot trials driven by local grower D&E priorities.
Trials align with 3 broad categories:
1. Economic impacts of pulses on farm profitability
2. Disease and integrated weed management in pulses
3. Flexible responses to emerging issues.
