| Researcher(s) |
Sam Cockayne (SFS) Jon Midwood (SFS) Ben O'Connor (SFS) Gary Sheppard (SFS) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2009 |
| Contributor | Southern Farming Systems |
| Trial location(s) |
Inverleigh, VIC
|
The aim of the competition is to see which team produces the highest gross margin crop (not necessarily the highest yielding crop) against a background of uncertain input and grain prices and unknown growing season rainfall.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | Rural Finance |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
This trial was sponsored by Rural Finance. Thanks to John Hamilton for providing the land for this trials programme. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Barley |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 12m x 1.45m |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Protein (%) | Screenings (%) | Test weight (kg/hL) | Retention (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Gairdner | █ Young Guns | 10.87 | 8.9 | 67.9 | 62.4 |
| 2 | █ Fairview | █ Marcus Oldham | 10.48 | 8.9 | 65.7 | 66.4 |
| 3 | █ Fairview | █ Lismore Legends | 11.33 | 9.8 | 65.7 | 63.9 |
| 4 | █ Gairdner | █ Landmark | 10.75 | 11.8 | 66.3 | 53.8 |
| 5 | █ Fairview | █ La Trobe | 11.4 | 2.5 | 68.8 | 86.3 |
| 6 | █ Fairview | █ Germinators | 10.39 | 3.8 | 67.1 | 82.5 |
| 7 | █ Fairview | █ Exiles | 10.46 | 3.1 | 65.8 | 83.5 |
| 8 | █ Fairview | █ Canterbury Crusaders | 11.99 | 11.6 | 65.8 | 59.8 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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