Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (Volume 4 page 17)
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Year 3 Agriculture.
Credit points: 18
Coordinator: Professor D J Connor
Prerequisite: 606-023 Agricultural Botany, 521-024 Biological Chemistry, 212-201 Soil Resources.
Contact: 48 hours of lectures and 36 hours of practical work.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should: be aware of the potential productivity of crops and pastures in temperate Australian agriculture; appreciate many of the physical, biological and environmental constraints which limit productivity; be aware of important agronomic and disease control practices used in the management of crops and pastures.
Content:
Potential and actual production. Factors limiting productivity. Efficiency of production. Intra- and inter-specific competition. Effect of weeds. Modes of action, methods of application and role of herbicides. Availability of water and nutrients. Diagnosis of nutrient disorders, nutrient removal and replenishment. Water flow through crops and pastures, relationship to growth and yield. Principles of irrigation. Components of yield in crops and pastures. Growth and development. Legumes as components of communities and rotations. Final and seasonal production. Nutrient cycling. Dynamics of re-establishment of annual pastures. Infectious agents and their effect on growth, yield and quality. Diagnosis and treatment. Case histories of typical infections of pasture and crop plants by insect, bacteria, virus and fungus. Practical Work : Practical classes in plant pathology and a research project conducted in residence at the Longerenong Campus.
Assessment:
A 3-hour written examination (60 per cent); a practical examination (10 per cent), a literature review (10 per cent) and a report on the Strathfieldsaye excursion (20 per cent). Students are also required to submit an accurately named collection of 80 plants of agriculturual significance, including at least 20 grasses. A pass in the subject requires individual passes in the written examination plus the literature review and in the remaining practical components taken as group.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (Volume 4 page 17)
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