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Evaluation of dual purpose cereal varieties

2008
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Research organisation
Funding source
Southern Farming Systems
<abbr title='National Landcare Programme'>NLP</abbr>

Important Caution

The results of this trial may have been impacted by unusual or adverse events
Low rainfall

Trial details

Researcher(s) Greg Forster (SFS)
Quentin Hodge (SFS)
Rose Maher (SFS)
Ben O'Connor (SFS)
Rohan Wardle (SFS)
Year(s) 2008
Contributor Southern Farming Systems
Trial location(s) Bairnsdale, VIC
Evaluation of dual purpose cereal varieties locations
Aims

• Which dual purpose varieties respond to Gippsland’s climatic conditions?
• Which new varieties may have commercialization potential?
• Which varieties are best suited to forage and feed grain production?

Key messages

Across both trials Capstan barley appears to have performed the best on average in a dry & challenging season.

Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Trial funding source NLP
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

Thanks to Trevor Caithness, Tony Murray, Murray Stewart, Rick Frew, John Chester, Brain Fairhall, Doug White, Rowan Paulet, Frank Mickan, Gary Sheppard, Ben Morris, Rohan Wardle and Julianne Sargant.
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop types Cereal (Grain): Barley Cereal (Grain): Triticale Cereal (Grain): Wheat
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop : Variety
  • Grazing : Application Method
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Randomised,Replicated,Blocked

Bairnsdale 2008 Barley

Sow date 15 April 2008 2nd: 16-6-08
Harvest date 1 January 2009 2nd 3-1-09
Plot size 20m x 2m
Plot replication Not specified

Bairnsdale 2008 Triticale

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified

Bairnsdale 2008 Wheat

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
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Trial results Table 1

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Protein (%) Grain yield (t/ha) Moisture (%) Test weight (kg/hL) Dry matter (t/ha)
1 █ Capstan █ Non-grazed █ late sown 11.48 2.61 11.93 64.65 6.697
2 █ CS170 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10 2.55 10.7 65.25 4.722
3 █ Jackie █ Non-grazed █ late sown 9.55 2.54 10.53 61.5 4.652
4 █ 5092 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 11.48 2.51 11.6 62.08 6.282
5 █ Cs95102.1 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 8.98 2.48 10.9 68.38 4.638
6 █ GS1078 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 8.85 2.45 11.05 67.1 5.595
7 █ Yerong █ Non-grazed █ late sown 8.93 2.4 9.95 52.73 6.188
8 █ Urambie █ Non-grazed █ late sown 12.73 2.35 12.48 56.68 7.994
9 █ Freelon █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.53 2.3 10.58 64.88 4.617
10 █ Tobruk █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.58 2.21 11.35 61.05 5.508
11 █ Crackerjack █ Non-grazed █ late sown 8.93 2.19 10.38 63.6 7.46
12 █ Amarok █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.35 2.18 11.38 68.18 5.05
13 █ Endevour █ Non-grazed █ late sown 9.98 2.08 10.6 62.73 5.808
14 █ CS97942.29 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 9.43 2.05 10.85 70.18 3.509
15 █ 10.10.3 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.8 2.01 11.55 63.4 3.516
16 █ AH10 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.48 2 11.6 64.88 5.362
17 █ Wedgetail █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.4 1.98 10.88 62.48 5.511
18 █ Gairdner █ Non-grazed █ late sown 11.4 1.93 11.75 61.95 5.493
19 █ Brennan █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.38 1.92 11.68 65.15 4.082
20 █ Monstress █ Non-grazed █ late sown 10.15 1.79 10.83 66.98 5.865
21 █ CS98048.72 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 9.23 1.58 11 66.68 4.097
22 █ CS98408.75 █ Non-grazed █ late sown 9.8 1.46 10.95 67.53 4.943
23 █ Mackellar █ Non-grazed █ late sown 9.3 1.42 11.28 62.83 3.805
24 █ Capstan █ Grazed █ early sown 12 3.39 12.05 59.68 7.94
25 █ Cs95102.1 █ Grazed █ early sown 10.1 2.62 11 67.9 9.489
26 █ GS5092 █ Grazed █ early sown 11.78 2.57 12.2 62.68 9.538
27 █ Endevour █ Grazed █ early sown 11.53 2.55 11.3 63.53 7.844
28 █ Freelon █ Grazed █ early sown 10.13 2.52 10.63 62.5 8.056
29 █ Tobruk █ Grazed █ early sown 10.25 2.45 11.08 70.68 7.251
30 █ 10.10.3 █ Grazed █ early sown 10.68 2.44 11.4 65.25 7.909
31 █ GS1078 █ Grazed █ early sown 11.08 2.43 11.75 66.1 7.862
32 █ Ranger █ Grazed █ early sown 12.6 2.38 12.3 54.3 NR
33 █ CS170 █ Grazed █ early sown 10.53 2.37 11.11 70.7 8.003
34 █ Amarok █ Grazed █ early sown 11.03 2.34 11.7 68.58 9.299
35 █ Gairdner █ Grazed █ early sown 11.78 2.27 12.13 60.5 7.542
36 █ Crackerjack █ Grazed █ early sown 9.98 2.21 10.7 67.28 7.888
37 █ Yerong █ Grazed █ early sown 10.73 2.2 10.63 43.15 8.067
38 █ Monstress █ Grazed █ early sown 11.15 2.12 11.2 63.18 8.837
39 █ CS97942.29 █ Grazed █ early sown 10.13 2.1 11.05 70.15 7.206
40 █ Jackie █ Grazed █ early sown 11.18 1.99 10.93 66.78 6.074
41 █ Urambie █ Grazed █ early sown 11.6 1.95 11.75 57.68 7.814
42 █ CS98048.72 █ Grazed █ early sown 10.3 1.92 10.95 68.8 5.301
43 █ Brennan █ Grazed █ early sown 11.9 1.9 11.98 62.35 6.309
44 █ AH10 █ Grazed █ early sown 10.93 1.86 11.38 66 6.508
45 █ Wedgetail █ Grazed █ early sown 9.38 1.68 10.43 63.03 9.516
46 █ CS98408.75 █ Grazed █ early sown 11.08 1.58 11.73 68.28 4.812
47 █ Mackellar █ Grazed █ early sown 10.88 1.51 11.05 68 6.756

Grain yield t/ha

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Dry matter t/ha

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Moisture %

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Test weight kg/hL

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Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Not specified
Soil conditions
Trial site Soil texture
Bairnsdale, VIC Not specified
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Bairnsdale, VIC Chromosol
Soil Moisture Source: BOM/ANU
Average amount of water stored in the soil profile during the year, estimated by the OzWALD model-data fusion system.
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Climate

Derived climate information

No observed climate data available for this trial.
Derived climate data is determined from trial site location and national weather sources.

Bairnsdale VIC

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Some data on this site is sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology

SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
Jeffrey, S.J., Carter, J.O., Moodie, K.B. and Beswick, A.R. (2001). Using spatial interpolation to construct a comprehensive archive of Australian climate data , Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol 16/4, pp 309-330. DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1.

Trial report and links

2008 trial report

Event Date Type Effect
dry

drought conditions, late season rain

 		in season Low rainfall 25%


Trial last modified: 06-11-2019 14:50pm AEST