• To compare field pea variety performance for Victoria’s grain growing regions.
• To assess the relative performance of advanced breeding lines identified as potential commercial releases by the national field pea breeding program.

Field pea grain yields were severely affected by a combination of moisture and heat stress and frost damage during flowering and podding. As a consequence, experimental and commercial grain yields were very low and discrimination between varieties often too small to interpret. Downy mildew and bacterial blight were observed in the Wimmera but had relatively very little impact on yield.