| Researcher(s) |
Colin Hacking (SFS) Gary Sheppard (SFS) Rohan Wardle (SFS) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2005 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Inverleigh, VIC
|
To assess different interrow spacing widths using five different sowing treatments.
Although only a demonstration, the various treatments within the later sown trial showed that small yield differences between the various row spacing treatments. With the earlier sown trial, narrow row spacing gave higher yields, however there were some deficiencies with the trial design which means that a confident conclusion can’t be reached.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
The authors would like to thank the interested farmers in this trial, ensuring that the demonstration took place, along with Darren |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | 17 May 2005 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 12m x 2m |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Treatment 2
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Chara | █ Single Skip | █ 17 May sowing | 5.25 |
| 2 | █ Chara | █ Single Skip | █ 10 June sowing | NR |
| 3 | █ Chara | █ Full Sow | █ 17 May sowing | 7.13 |
| 4 | █ Chara | █ Full Sow | █ 10 June sowing | 4.87 |
| 5 | █ Chara | █ Double Skip | █ 17 May sowing | 5 |
| 6 | █ Chara | █ Double Skip | █ 10 June sowing | 4.56 |
| 7 | █ Chara | █ Double Row Skip | █ 17 May sowing | 5.93 |
| 8 | █ Chara | █ Double Row Skip | █ 10 June sowing | 4.61 |
| 9 | █ Chara | █ Alternate Skip | █ 17 May sowing | 4.91 |
| 10 | █ Chara | █ Alternate Skip | █ 10 June sowing | 3.93 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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