| Researcher(s) |
Brett Davey (SFS) Geoff Dean (SFS) Simon Munford (DPIW) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2006 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Perth, TAS
|
To examine the effect of fodder cuts on grain yield of early sown wheat and triticale – Perth Tasmania
Responses to cutting treatments in Mackellar wheat and Breakwell triticale were examined in an early sowing (March). Frost damage was severe and both uncut treatments produced significantly lower grain yields being at mid flowering (Breakwell) and late ear emergence (Mackellar) at the time of the frosts. Grain yields did not tend to correlate with the number of ears per m2 or grain weight. However for both varieties the higher yields of cut treatments related to the number of grains per ear.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Bill Chilvers, Rob Bradley |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop types | Cereal (Grain): Triticale Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow date | 14 March 2006 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | 24 January 2007 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) | 1000 grain weight (g) | Hay yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Mackellar (wheat) | █ uncut | 0.65 | 40.4 | 19.4 |
| 2 | █ Breakwell (triticale) | █ uncut | 0.67 | 57.6 | 22.9 |
| 3 | █ Mackellar (wheat) | █ cut | 1.14 | 43.2 | n/a |
| 4 | █ Breakwell (triticale) | █ cut | 1.62 | 54 | n/a |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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