| Researcher(s) |
Max Davis (AWB Seeds) Wayne Ferguson (SFS) Steve Holden (DPI) Allan Reid (AWB Seeds) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2002 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Lake Bolac, VIC
Strathkellar, VIC |
To evaluate a range of milling and feed wheats of differing maturities and disease resistance under broad acre farmer sown plots.
For results and discussion please see the attached trial report.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
The Hamilton and Streatham Branches of Southern Farming Systems would like to thank AWB Seeds for donating many of the varieties for the trial. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | 8 July 2002 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 6m x 90m |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Sow date | 3 July 2002 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 6m x 80m |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| # | Variety |
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Chara | 3.39 |
| 2 | █ Yitpi | 3.29 |
| 3 | █ Goldmark | 3.26 |
| 4 | █ Kellalac | 3.22 |
| 5 | █ Kukri | 3.17 |
| 6 | █ Silverstar | 2.97 |
| 7 | █ Rudd | 2.6 |
| 8 | █ Bowerbird | 2.59 |
| 9 | █ Tennant | 2.45 |
| 10 | █ Brennan | 2.23 |
| # | Variety |
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Silverstar | 5.63 |
| 2 | █ Kukri | 5.54 |
| 3 | █ Kellalac | 5.48 |
| 4 | █ Chara | 5.4 |
| 5 | █ Goldmark | 5.16 |
| 6 | █ Brennan | 4.57 |
| 7 | █ Rudd | 4.32 |
| 8 | █ Tennant | 3.76 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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