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Optimising the profitability of HRZ cropping in SW Victoria: wheat time of sowing trial

2010
CC BY 4.0

Research organisation
Funding source
Southern Farming Systems
<abbr title='Grains Research and Development Corporation'>GRDC</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) Stephen Fischer (Landmark)
Year(s) 2010
Contributor Southern Farming Systems
Trial location(s) Lake Bolac, VIC
Optimising the profitability of HRZ cropping in SW Victoria: wheat time of sowing trial locations
Aims

To evaluate five wheat varieties sown at three different times and assess how each one responds. 

Key messages
  • Significatn variation was observed with tiller counts from one time of sowing to another.
  • Early sowing provided a clear yield advantage over the later sowing dates.
  • Revenue wheat was the highest yielding variety in the trial and adaptable to sowing time variation.
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Trial funding source GRDC
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the following people for assisting in this trial and the overall project, Blair McCormick, Jon Midwood, Ben O’Connor, Toby Campbell and James Hunt.
 
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop type Cereal (Grain): Wheat
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop : Variety
  • Sowing : Timing
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Replicated

Lake Bolac 2010

Sow date 3 May 2010
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size 12m x 1.65m
Plot replication Not specified
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Trial results Table 1

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Grain yield (t/ha)
1 █ Beaufort █ Sowing date: 3 May 6.6
2 █ Bolac █ Sowing date: 3 May 6.1
3 █ Derrimut █ Sowing date: 3 May 5.7
4 █ Preston █ Sowing date: 3 May 5.3
5 █ Revenue █ Sowing date: 3 May 7.1
6 █ Beaufort █ Sowing date: 27 May 4.9
7 █ Bolac █ Sowing date: 27 May 5.8
8 █ Derrimut █ Sowing date: 27 May 5.2
9 █ Preston █ Sowing date: 27 May 3.2
10 █ Revenue █ Sowing date: 27 May 7.1
11 █ Beaufort █ Sowing date: 24 June 2.2
12 █ Bolac █ Sowing date: 24 June 3.5
13 █ Derrimut █ Sowing date: 24 June 3
14 █ Preston █ Sowing date: 24 June 1.4
15 █ Revenue █ Sowing date: 24 June 4.3

Grain yield t/ha

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Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Not specified
Soil conditions
Trial site Soil texture
Lake Bolac, VIC Not specified
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Lake Bolac, VIC Sodosol
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.

Lake Bolac 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

2010 trial report



Trial last modified: 31-10-2019 12:35pm AEST