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Southern barley agronomy - optimising time of sowing to maximise performance

2013
CC BY 4.0

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

Trial details

Researcher(s) Jade Killoran (SFS)
Angela Mazur (La Trobe University)
Jon Midwood (SFS)
Year(s) 2013
Contributor Southern Farming Systems
Trial location(s) Tarrington, VIC
Southern barley agronomy - optimising time of sowing to maximise performance locations
Aims

 To determine whether sowing date can influence the yield and quality of malt and feed barley varieties. 

Key messages
  • Sowing barley varieties at the optimal time for each cultivar can significantly increase performance.
  • Sowing barley on 21st May (TOS 1) increased yield when compared to later sowing on 26th June (TOS 2).
  • Some malting varieties sown at TOS 1 had low test weights which failed the malting standard .
  • Oxford had the highest yield of all varieties, at 9.0 t/ha, when sown at TOS 1.
     
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Trial funding source GRDC
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

This project was funded by the GRDC.
 
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

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

Tarrington 2013

Sow date 21 May 2013 2nd: 26-6-13
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Other trial notes

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Trial results Table 1

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Grain yield (t/ha)
1 █ Oxford █ Sown 21 May 9
2 █ Navigator █ Sown 21 May 8.95
3 █ Westminster █ Sown 21 May 8.73
4 █ Fairview █ Sown 21 May 8.6
5 █ Grange R █ Sown 21 May 8.24
6 █ Henley █ Sown 21 May 8.05
7 █ Fathom █ Sown 21 May 7.84
8 █ Commander █ Sown 21 May 7.76
9 █ Skipper █ Sown 21 May 7.73
10 █ Hindmarsh █ Sown 21 May 7.61
11 █ La Trobe █ Sown 21 May 7.59
12 █ Oxford █ Sown 26 June 7.69
13 █ Navigator █ Sown 26 June 7.27
14 █ Westminster █ Sown 26 June 8.32
15 █ Fairview █ Sown 26 June 7.61
16 █ Grange R █ Sown 26 June 7.44
17 █ Henley █ Sown 26 June 7.64
18 █ Fathom █ Sown 26 June 7.24
19 █ Commander █ Sown 26 June 7.22
20 █ Skipper █ Sown 26 June 6.95
21 █ Hindmarsh █ Sown 26 June 5.97
22 █ La Trobe █ Sown 26 June 6
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Grain yield t/ha

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

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

Tarrington VIC

NOTE: Exact trial site locality unknown - Climate data may not be accurate
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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



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