| Researcher(s) |
Steve Milroy (CSIRO) Mick Poole (CSIRO) Kelley Whisson (CSIRO) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2006 |
| Contributor | Liebe Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Buntine, WA
|
To explore constraints to wheat yield potential in the northern sandplain region.
Yields were low due to low rainfall.
| Lead research organisation |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Thanks to the staff of the Liebe Group for their support and to Stuart and Leanne McAlpine for their ready co-operation, assistance and patience. This research was co-funded by GRDC and CSIRO.
|
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow date | 24 May 2006 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 2.5m x 20m |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
N as per treatment: 0, 40, 80 or 120 kg/ha |
| Herbicide |
Roundup 4 L/ha,Trifluralin 1.7 L/ha |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Screenings (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ After canola | 1.24 | 1.78 |
| 2 | █ After lucerne | 1.09 | 1.34 |
| 3 | █ After lupin | 1.14 | 1.93 |
| 4 | █ After Serradella | 1.2 | 2.08 |
| 5 | █ After Wheat | 1.55 | 1.44 |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 128mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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