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Crop comparison after wheat and canola

2007

Research organisations
Funding source
Riverine Plains John Sykes Rural Consulting
<abbr title='Grains Research and Development Corporation'>GRDC</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) John Sykes (John Sykes Rural Consulting)
Year(s) 2007
Contributor Riverine Plains
Trial location(s) Balldale, NSW
Crop comparison after wheat and canola locations
Aims

To test if wheat can be successfully grown after wheat and canola and to assess if wheat was the best crop to grow.

Key messages
  • Wheat on wheat following canola is an alternative that will enable more cereal crop to be grown in a rotation.
  • Barley yields best under dry conditions.
  • There were responses to additional nitrogen (N) or fungicide treatments in all cereal crops.
  • Alternative crops such as canola and lupins yield very poorly in drought seasons.
Lead research organisation John Sykes Rural Consulting
Host research organisation Riverine Plains
Trial funding source GRDC
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

Mr C Cay, Mrs S Cay
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop types Cereal (Grain): Barley Cereal (Grain): Triticale Cereal (Grain): Wheat Oilseed: Canola Grain Legume: Lupins
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop : Rotation
  • Fertiliser : Rate
  • Fungicide : Timing
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Replicated

Balldale 2007 Barley

Sow date 23 May 2007
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size 1.5m x 16m
Plot replication 4
Fertiliser

90kg/ha MAP at sowing and as per treatments
Fungicide

Canola treated with rovral for Septoria control at early flowering.
Soil amelioration

pH (H20) 4.8 Phosphate (Collwell) 37mg/kg Deep soil N 86kg/ha

Balldale 2007 Triticale

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser Not specified
Fungicide Not specified
Soil amelioration Not specified

Balldale 2007 Wheat

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser Not specified
Fungicide Not specified
Soil amelioration Not specified

Balldale 2007 Canola

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser Not specified
Fungicide Not specified
Soil amelioration Not specified

Balldale 2007 Lupins

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser Not specified
Fungicide Not specified
Soil amelioration Not specified
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Trial results Table 1

# Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Treatment 3
Gross margin ($/ha) Grain yield (t/ha)
1 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ 258 1.2
2 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 40N post em █ 305 1.4
3 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 356 1.6
4 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 250 1.5
5 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 390 1.5
6 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 40N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 345 1.5
7 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 185 1.2
8 █ Wheat █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 180 1.4
9 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ 335 1.4
10 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 40N post em █ 432 1.8
11 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 333 1.7
12 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 274 1.6
13 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 367 1.6
14 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 40N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 331 1.6
15 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 251 1.5
16 █ Triticale █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 223 1.5
17 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ 235 1.1
18 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 40N post em █ 429 1.6
19 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 414 1.6
20 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 427 1.6
21 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 381 1.5
22 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 40N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 411 1.6
23 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 330 1.4
24 █ Barley █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 332 1.4
25 █ canola █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ 27 0.4
26 █ canola █ 13 N @sow, 40N post em █ 72 0.4
27 █ canola █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 32 0.4
28 █ canola █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 29 0.4
29 █ canola █ 13 N @sow, 80N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 -10 0.3
30 █ canola █ 13 N @sow, 120N post em █ 3 x 1 l/ha of 125g/L Triadamefon @ Z32 & Z39 & Z45 58 0.5
31 █ Lupins █ 13 N @sow, 0N post em █ -48 0.4

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
Balldale, NSW Red chromosol
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Balldale, NSW 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

Balldale NSW 2007

Observed climate information

Rainfall trial gsr (mm) 221mm

Derived climate information

Balldale NSW

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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

2007 trial report



Trial last modified: 28-08-2019 14:42pm AEST