| Researcher(s) |
Lara Swift (Liebe Group) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2008 |
| Contributor | Liebe Group |
| Trial location(s) |
East Wubin, WA
|
To determine if there are benefits from the application of the biological based product ‘TM21’ developed by Basic Environmental Systems and Technology (B.E.S.T).
There are no significant differences in yields between the control and the TM21 plots in either trial.
| Lead research organisation |
Liebe Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC LIE00005 |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
The Liebe Group would like to acknowledge GRDC for funding the project. Thanks also to Colin and Ruth Cail for hosting the trial site and assisting with the seeding, harvesting and implementation of the trial and the CBH Group for grain analysis.
|
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | 4 June 2008 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 500m x 12m |
| Plot replication | 2 |
| Fertiliser |
4/6/08: 35 kg/ha Agstar |
| Herbicide |
4/6/08: 250 mL/ha TM21, 1 L/ha Glyphosate, 1.4 L/ha Treflan, 35 g/ha Logran (on TM21 plots only), 24/7/08: 400 mL/ha MCPA 750, 5 g/ha Glean, 125 g/ha Diuron, 250 mL/ha TM21 (on TM21 plots only) |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Protein (%) | Screenings (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Control | 11.6 | 2.58 | 2.63 |
| 2 | █ TM21 | 12.1 | 1.68 | 2.44 |
| 3 | █ TM21 | 10.5 | 0.82 | 0.83 |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 262mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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