| Researcher(s) |
Geoff Dean (DPIW) Rob Howard (TIAR) Peter Johnson (DPIW) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2008 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Cressy, TAS
|
To calculate the incremental benefit of irrigation to barley to maximise water use efficiency and determine the growth stage to cease irrigation.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Thanks to Lyndon Isles. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Barley |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | 6 September 2008 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to soft dough 75% | 4.21 |
| 2 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to soft dough | 4.28 |
| 3 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to late milk 75% | 3.86 |
| 4 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to late milk | 3.85 |
| 5 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to late booting | 3.47 |
| 6 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to hard dough 75% | 4.21 |
| 7 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to hard dough | 4.31 |
| 8 | █ Gairdner | █ Irrigation to flower | 3.56 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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