| Researcher(s) |
Marcus Hemsted (Liebe Group) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2004 |
| Contributor | Liebe Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Goodlands, WA
|
To establish wheat yield variation through wide row spacing and seeding rate in the low rainfall zone.
The wide row treatments were closer to achieveing potential yield according to the French-Schultz equation.
| Lead research organisation |
Liebe Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Thanks to the farmer Grant Hudson. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Unreplicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | 45-50kg/ha |
|---|---|
| Sow date | 19 May 2004 |
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Paddock history | 2003 = wheat, 2002 = wheat, 2001 = wheat |
| Fertiliser |
Basal fertiliser = 65 kg/ha Agflow zinc & 40 L/ha Flexi N. 40 L/ha Flexi N at early tillering. |
| Herbicide |
800 mL/ha roundup pre-seeding & 350 mL/ha of ester for late radish control. |
| @T1: Athesis | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Protein (%) | Screenings (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Hectolitre weight (kg/hL) | Biomass (t/ha) |
| 1 | █ 10†row | 14.7 | 0.78 | 1.45 | 6.5 | |
| 1 | █ 20†row | 12.6 | 0.86 | 1.8 | 81.14 | 7.4 |
| 2 | █ 20†row ½ seed rate | 1.97 | ||||
| 2 | █ | |||||
| 3 | █ | |||||
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 217mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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