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A comparison of commercially available products, applied on seed or post emergent, to control Ground Lark damage in canola

2011
CC BY 4.0

Research organisation
Funding source
Southern Farming Systems
<abbr title='Southern Farming Systems'>SFS</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) Freyr Colvin (SFS)
Jon Midwood (SFS)
Gary Sheppard (SFS)
Year(s) 2011
Contributor Southern Farming Systems
Trial location(s) Inverleigh, VIC
A comparison of commercially available products, applied on seed or post emergent, to control Ground Lark damage in canola locations
Aims

To est alternative products to Mesurol that are commercially available both in Australia and overseas, to assess their effectiveness as bird deterrents.

Key messages
  • No bird damage was evident in the trial possibly due to the netting used which may have been a deterrent itself.
  • There was a significant effect on plant counts established in the absense of bird damage but htis didn't relate to final yield.
  • The two highest yielding treatments, although not significant (P = 0.05), were post emergent products applied to the 2nd true leaf.
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Trial funding source SFS
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

Thanks to John Hamilton for providing the land for this trial.
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop type Oilseed: Canola
Treatment type(s)
  • Pest Management : Wildlife / birds
  • Seed treatment : Type
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Randomised,Replicated,Blocked

Inverleigh 2011

Sow date 29 May 2011
Harvest date 2 December 2011
Plot size 10m x 1.45m
Plot replication Not specified
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Trial results Table 1

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Establishment plants (plants/m2) Oil (%) Grain yield (t/ha) Test weight (kg/hL)
1 █ 46Y83 CF █ Vitall Plus @ 2TL 49 45.1 2.83 65.6
2 █ 46Y83 CF █ Vitall Plus (seed treated) 44 44.7 2.7 65.4
3 █ 46Y83 CF █ Vitall Plus (PSPE bare earth) 54 44.2 2.71 67.3
4 █ 46Y83 CF █ Untreated (net covered) 40 44.7 2.71 67.2
5 █ 46Y83 CF █ Untreated 44 44.9 2.71 65.8
6 █ 46Y83 CF █ Thiram (net covered) 58 44.7 2.73 64.9
7 █ 46Y83 CF █ Thiram 48 44.6 2.7 64.6
8 █ 46Y83 CF █ Mesurol (net covered) 51 44.3 2.8 65.9
9 █ 46Y83 CF █ Mesurol 51 44.8 2.73 66.5
10 █ 46Y83 CF █ Grazers @ 2TL 41 44.3 2.88 65.9
11 █ 46Y83 CF █ Cosmos (net covered) 39 44.1 2.74 66.1
12 █ 46Y83 CF █ Cosmos 43 44.5 2.65 64.7

Grain yield t/ha

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Establishment plants plants/m2

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Oil %

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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
Inverleigh, VIC Not specified
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Inverleigh, 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.

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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

2011 trial report



Trial last modified: 30-10-2019 15:51pm AEST