| Researcher(s) |
Anthony Casanova (SFS) Max Davis (DPI) Steve Holden (DPI) Allan Reid (AWB Seeds) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2003 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Lake Bolac, VIC
|
To evaluate a range of milling and feed wheats of differing maturities and disease resistance under broad acre farmer sown plots.
Chara was the top yielding variety in the milling wheat demo site and Brennan was the highest yielder of the winter wheat varieties.
| 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 | Demonstration |
| Trial design | Unreplicated |
| Sow date | 29 April 2003 and 11-6-03 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 10m x 100m |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
107 kg/ha DAP |
| # | Variety |
Protein (%) | Screenings (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Brennan | 11.9 | 4.1 | 7.6 |
| 2 | █ Tennant | 12.3 | 3.6 | 6.6 |
| 3 | █ Rudd | 11.7 | 3.6 | 6.3 |
| 4 | █ Mackellar | 12.1 | 9.3 | 5.8 |
| 5 | █ Chara | 13.4 | 3.2 | 5.2 |
| 6 | █ Silverstar | 12.6 | 4.5 | 4.8 |
| 7 | █ Lr 1075 (Was W29) | 12.8 | 2.6 | 4.8 |
| 8 | █ Yitpi | 13.4 | 2.7 | 4.7 |
| 9 | █ Qt 7208 | 12.9 | 2.6 | 4.7 |
| 10 | █ Kellalac | 13.8 | 4 | 4.6 |
| 11 | █ Wedgetail | 14 | 2.7 | 4.6 |
| 12 | █ Bowerbird | 13.6 | 3.4 | 4.5 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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