| Researcher(s) |
Emma Glasfurd (Liebe Group) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2006 |
| Contributor | Liebe Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Buntine, WA
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To investigate the potential of biological and organic matter inputs to increase soil water storage, target long-term yield increases and soil improvement
The lupin phase is primarily a 'set up' rotation which continues evaluation of the soil resource. No yield results are obtained in the lupin rotation.
No significant differences have been found between treatments in relation to the soil resource.
| Lead research organisation |
Liebe Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
The Liebe Group would like to acknowledge GRDC for funding the project and the assistance of the Dan Murphy, University of Western Australia and Fran Hoyle, Department of Agriculture WA. Thanks also to Stuart McAlpine and staff for conducting many of the paddock operations and also Mike Dodd and Rod Birch. Thank you to all sponsors and supporters of the Long Term Reserach Site.
|
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Grain Legume: Lupins |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow date | 8 May 2006 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 80m x 10.5m |
| Plot replication | 3 |
| Fertiliser |
50 kg/ha TSP |
| Herbicide |
1 L/ha Glyphosate, 1.25 kg/ha Simazine, 0.5 kg/ha Atrazine, 1.3 L/ha Sprayseed, 10 g/ha Metrabuzin, 10 g/ha Brodal, 16 g/ha Select, 30 g/ha Leopard and 1 L/ha Sprayseed (crop-topping) |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Bulk density (g/cm3) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Brown manure (Control) | 1.34 |
| 2 | █ Brown Manure + Humate | 1.29 |
| 3 | █ Brown Manure + Humates + Zeolite + Microbes | 1.3 |
| 4 | █ Brown Manure + Microbe | 1.36 |
| 5 | █ Brown Manure + Zeolite | 1.33 |
| 6 | █ Burn Stubble | 1.42 |
| 7 | █ Control | 1.38 |
| 8 | █ Control + humate | 1.35 |
| 9 | █ Control + zeolite | 1.27 |
| 10 | █ Control +Microbe | 1.36 |
| 11 | █ Control+Humates+Zeolite+Microbes | 1.32 |
| 12 | █ Till + decomposing agent | 1.38 |
| 13 | █ Till + Organic Matter | 1.33 |
| 14 | █ Till + Organic Matter + Decomposing Agent | 1.33 |
| 15 | █ Tilled soil | 1.36 |
| 16 | █ Tilled Soil + Organic Matter | 1.33 |
| 17 | █ Western Mineral Fertiliser Package (Brown manure control) | 1.38 |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 131mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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