| Researcher(s) |
Nadine Hollamby (Liebe Group) Yvette Oliver (CSIRO) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2012 |
| Contributor | Liebe Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Buntine, WA
|
To determine if various farm management techniques improve the storage of out-of-season rainfall and whether this leads to improvements in crop growth and/or yield.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC LIE00006 |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
GRDC for funding this work through LIE00006 “Improved stubble and soil management for sustainable farming systems in the Liebe area’. DAFWA Geraldton for seeding and harvesting the trial. Stuart McAlpine, Bain Russell and Clint Wyatt for spraying. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Oilseed: Canola |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | 4 |
|---|---|
| Sow date | 16 May 2012 |
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 19m x 4m |
| Plot replication | 3 |
| Paddock history | 2009 lupin, 2010 wheat, 2011 wheat |
| Fertiliser |
100 kg/ha Agstar Extra |
| Herbicide |
16/5/12: 2 L/ha Spray Seed, 1 kg/ha Atrazine, 1.5 L/ha Trifluralin, 29/6/12: 1.1 kg/ha Atrazine 18/7/12: 500 mL/ha Clethodim 15/10/12: 1.7 L/ha Roundup Attack |
| Insecticide |
16/5/12: 100 mL/ha Dominex 200 mL/ha Talstar 29/6/12: 100 mL/ha Dimetholoate, 100 mL/ha Cypermethrin |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Oil (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Continuous crop, Burnt stubble | 43.1 | 0.9 |
| 2 | █ Continuous crop, Flat stubble | 43.5 | 0.7 |
| 3 | █ Continuous crop, Standing stubble | 43.3 | 0.8 |
| 4 | █ Fallow 2010, crop 2011&2012 | 42.6 | 0.9 |
| 5 | █ Fallow 2011, crop 2012 | 41.8 | 1.1 |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 162mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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