| Researcher(s) |
Rupert Mayo (Biogreen) Renick Peries (DPI) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2006 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Balliang, VIC
Mt Pollock, VIC |
Two experiments were conducted as a follow-up to previous SFS trials, to test whether deep ripping with various organic amendments could lead to water storage deep in the soil profile and therefore extra water provision during grain fill.
Under the low rainfall conditions experienced in the 2006 wheat-growing season (particularly during grain fill) at Balliang and Mt Pollock, increases in yield could not be expected using the treatments in this experiment.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
George Davis, Farmer, Balliang. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Other trial notes |
2010 |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Other trial notes | Not specified |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + sand (10m3/ha) | 2.3 |
| 2 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + peat (2.5m3/ha) | 2.3 |
| 3 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + peat (10m3/ha) | 2.5 |
| 4 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + chicken manure (7.5m3/ha) + peat (2.5m3/ha) | 2.1 |
| 5 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + chicken manure (10m3/ha) | 2.2 |
| 6 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum | 2.4 |
| 7 | █ Control | 2.2 |
| # | Grain yield (t/ha) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + sand (10m3/ha) | 2.6 |
| 2 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + peat (2.5m3/ha) | 3.3 |
| 3 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + peat (10m3/ha) | 3 |
| 4 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum + chicken manure (10m3/ha) | 3.1 |
| 5 | █ Ripping + 2t/ha gypsum | 3.1 |
| 6 | █ Control | 2.4 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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