| Researcher(s) |
Allan Reid (AWB Seeds) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2004 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Lake Bolac, VIC
|
To evaluate commercial varieties in a large demonstration block
In spite of a warm and very dry October combined with 3 frosts over the site, the winter wheat varieties performed well. Tennant, with the longest maturity of the 4 winter wheat varieties was the variety most affected by the dry, hot October. MacKellar performed extremely well, with a yield of 5.9 t/ha. The spring wheat varieties all produced high screenings as well as high protein. This was the result of the later sowing coupled with the seasonal conditions. Silverstar, an early maturing variety, produced an outstanding yield, possibly being affected less by frost than the other varieties.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Max Davis and SFS Streatham Branch Committee |
| 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 | 27 April 2004 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) | Protein (%) | Screenings (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Brennan | █ Demonstration of variety | 4.9 | ||
| 2 | █ Mackellar | █ Demonstration of variety | 5.9 | ||
| 3 | █ Rudd | █ Demonstration of variety | 5.3 | ||
| 4 | █ Tennant | █ Demonstration of variety | 4.7 | ||
| 5 | █ Ega Wedgetail | █ Demonstration of variety | 2 | 14.6 | 7.4 |
| 6 | █ Drysdale | █ Demonstration of variety | 3 | 13.4 | 8.6 |
| 7 | █ Bowerbird | █ Demonstration of variety | 1 | 14.4 | 10.5 |
| 8 | █ Chara | █ Demonstration of variety | 2 | 15 | 9.1 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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