| Researcher(s) |
Claire Browne (BCG) Cameron Taylor (BCG) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2012 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Birchip, VIC
Rupanyup, VIC |
To increase grain protein (%) in wheat and barley by means of late applications of nitrogen (N) applied as UAN.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | BCG members |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
This project was funded by BCG members through their membership fees. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop types | Cereal (Grain): Barley Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser | Not specified |
| Herbicide | Not specified |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser | Not specified |
| Herbicide | Not specified |
| Sow date | 14 May 2012 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | 4 |
| Fertiliser |
14 May - MAP (55kg/ha) (treated with impact) 7 Aug - urea (90kg/ha) (across all plots) 4 Sept - urea (90kg/ha) (wheat only) |
| Herbicide |
14 May - Triflur X® (2L/ha) + Avadex Xtra® (2L/ha) Roundup Attack® (2L/ha) 11 Sept - Amicide® (1L/ha) + Lontrel® (100mL/ha) |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser | Not specified |
| Herbicide | Not specified |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Treatment 2
|
Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Change in protein (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Wheat | █ 0 kg N/ha | 9.3 | 2.8 | 0 |
| 2 | █ Wheat | █ 25 kg N/ha | 9.8 | 3 | 0.5 |
| 3 | █ Wheat | █ 50 kg N/ha | 10.1 | 3 | 0.8 |
| 4 | █ Wheat | █ 75 kg N/ha | 10.1 | 2.9 | 0.8 |
| 5 | █ Wheat | █ 100 kg N/ha | 10.1 | 3 | 0.8 |
| 6 | █ Barley | █ 0 kg N/ha | 8 | 0 | |
| 7 | █ Barley | █ 25 kg N/ha | 8.3 | 0.3 | |
| 8 | █ Barley | █ 50 kg N/ha | 8.8 | 0.8 | |
| 9 | █ Barley | █ 75 kg N/ha | 9.2 | 1.2 | |
| 10 | █ Barley | █ 100 kg N/ha | 9 | 1 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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