| Researcher(s) |
Claire Browne (BCG) Bill Davoren (CSIRO) Katrien Descheemaeker (WUR) Rick Llewellyn (CSIRO) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2012 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Karoonda, SA
Hopetoun, VIC |
To test the persistence and performance of summer-active perennial grasses in a Mallee environment and the potential for pasture cropping.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | CRC |
| Trial funding source | GRDC |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
The Evercrop project is funded through the CRC for Future Farm Industries and GRDC with activities in the low rainfall zone supported by the CSIRO Sustainable Agriculture Flagship. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser | Not specified |
| Sow date | 7 June 2012 |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | 4 |
| Fertiliser |
at sowing - MAP (50kg/ha) 14 Sept - SOA (40 units N/ha) |
| @T1: Maturity | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) | Biomass (t/ha) |
| 1 | █ Pasture | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 1 | █ No Pasture | 1.4 | 2.5 |
| 2 | █ | ||
| 2 | █ | ||
| @T1: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) | Biomass (t/ha) |
| 1 | █ Pasture | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| 1 | █ No Pasture | 1.4 | 2.5 |
| 2 | █ | ||
| 2 | █ | ||
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 157mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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