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Rural Finance crop challenge

2013
CC BY 4.0

Research organisation
Southern Farming Systems

Trial details

Researcher(s) Corinne Celestina (SFS)
Year(s) 2013
Contributor Southern Farming Systems
Trial location(s) Inverleigh, VIC
Lake Bolac, VIC
Rural Finance crop challenge locations
Aims

To summarise the results from this three-year cycle of the Rural Finance Crop Challenge competition.

To sumarise the results from this three-year cycle of the Rural Financy Crop Challenge competition.

Key messages
  • Landmark are the winners of the Rural Finance Crop Challenge for 2013 at the Inverleigh site with the highest gross margin of $1853/ha.
  • The A Team and Southern Stars were last placed with negative gross margins due to total crop loss.
     
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments N/A
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop type Cereal (Grain): Wheat
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop : Variety
Trial type Article/commentary
Trial design Not applicable

Inverleigh 2013

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

Lake Bolac 2013

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
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Trial results Summary of the yield, cost of production and gross margin of the 13 teams competing at Lake Bolac in 2013

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Gross margin ($/ha) Grain yield (t/ha) Cost of production ($/t)
1 █ Scout █ Bean Machines 1338 6.3 63
2 █ Revenue █ The Insiders 1253 6.98 80
3 █ Revenue █ Worn Out Farmers 1247 7.17 70
4 █ Revenue █ Wickliffe Hillbillies 1220 6.18 68
5 █ Phantom █ Nitrogen Fixators 1117 5.64 83
6 █ Phantom █ Break Breakers 1141 5.96 73
7 █ Revenue █ Elco Pops 1033 5.43 76
8 █ Phantom █ Bald Hill Boys 884 5.06 88
9 █ Preston █ The Legends 765 5.11 86
10 █ Beaufort █ Southern Soils 462 3.7 111
11 █ Bolac █ NMIT 271 2.27 144
12 █ Derrimut █ Nuseed/Nufarm Cats -300 NR -
13 █ Elmore Cl Plus █ SFS High Yielder -303 NR -

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Trial results Summary of the yield, cost of production and gross margin of the 10 teams competing at Inverleigh in 2013

# Variety
 Gross margin ($/ha) Grain yield (t/ha) Cost of production ($/t)
1 █ Revenue █ Landmark 1853 7.38 54
2 █ Revenue █ Marcus Oldham 1548 8.35 73
3 █ Bolac █ La Trobe 1403 7.06 57
4 █ Elmore Cl Plus █ Capital Punishers 1124 5.64 93
5 █ Phantom █ Go Hawks 1120 5.97 75
6 █ Preston █ Pulsators 1040 6.21 69
7 █ Phantom █ Could've Beans 1038 5.7 70
8 █ Beaufort █ Germinators 774 5.37 92
9 █ Derrimut █ Southern Stars -249 - -
10 █ Revenue █ A Team -303 - -

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

Inverleigh VIC

Lake Bolac VIC

Inverleigh VIC

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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

2013 trial report

2013 trial report



Trial last modified: 23-10-2019 11:33am AEST