Researcher(s) |
Claire Browne (BCG) |
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Year(s) | 2013 |
Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
Trial location(s) |
Horsham, VIC
Watchupga East, VIC |
To compare new and existing wheat varieties and their suitability in the Mallee and Wimmera, either sown dry or after the break.
Sowing early increased yields by 0.5t/ha at Watchupga East and Horsham. Corack and Mace topped the yields at Watchupga East. Cobra and Mace were the highest yielding varieties at Horsham.
Lead research organisation | N/A |
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Host research organisation | N/A |
Trial funding source | BCG members |
Related program | N/A |
Acknowledgments |
This trial was funded by BCG members through their membership, in conjunction with Agritech rural Horsham. |
Other trial partners | Not specified |
Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
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Treatment type(s) |
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Trial type | |
Trial design |
Sow date | Not specified |
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Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Insecticide | Not specified |
Fungicide | Not specified |
Sow date | 23 April 2013 |
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Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | 4 |
Fertiliser |
23 April and 18 June - Granulock Supreme Z + Impact @ 50kg/ha, Urea @ 50kg/ha 9 July - Urea @ 90kg/ha (both TOS) 22 Aug - Urea @ 90kg/ha (both TOS) |
Herbicide |
23 April and 18 June - Triflur X @1.5L/ha + Weedmaster Due @ 2L/ha 8 June - Velocity @ 670ml/ha + Lontrel Advanced @ 50ml/ha + Hasten 1% (TOS 1) 8 June - Midas @ 900ml/ha (TOS 1 Clf) 2 September - Velocity @ 670ml/ha + Lontrel advanced @ 50ml/ha + Hasten 1% (TOS 2) 5 September - Midas @ 900ml/ha (TOS 2 Clf) |
Insecticide |
23 September - Alpha Duo @ 200ml/ha |
Fungicide |
4 October - Prosaro @ 300ml/ha |
# | Variety |
Treatment 1
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Grain yield (t/ha) | Gross income ($/ha) |
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1 | █ Corack | █ TOS 1 | 3.6 | 896 |
2 | █ Mace | █ TOS 1 | 3.4 | 918 |
3 | █ Shield | █ TOS 1 | 3.2 | 864 |
4 | █ Cobra | █ TOS 1 | 3.2 | 864 |
5 | █ Scout | █ TOS 1 | 3.2 | 864 |
6 | █ Magenta | █ TOS 1 | 3.1 | 772 |
7 | █ Yitpi | █ TOS 1 | 3 | 810 |
8 | █ Corack | █ TOS 2 | 2.9 | 722 |
9 | █ Mace | █ TOS 2 | 2.7 | 729 |
10 | █ Shield | █ TOS 2 | 2.5 | 675 |
11 | █ Cobra | █ TOS 2 | 2.3 | 621 |
12 | █ Scout | █ TOS 2 | 2.4 | 648 |
13 | █ Magenta | █ TOS 2 | 2.3 | 573 |
14 | █ Yitpi | █ TOS 2 | 2.5 | 675 |
# | Variety |
Treatment 1
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Grain yield (t/ha) | Gross income ($/ha) |
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1 | █ Cobra | █ TOS 1 | 5.7 | 1539 |
2 | █ Scout | █ TOS 1 | 5.4 | 1458 |
3 | █ Trojan | █ TOS 1 | 5.1 | 1275 |
4 | █ Derrimut | █ TOS 1 | 5.1 | 1377 |
5 | █ Mace | █ TOS 1 | 4.7 | 1269 |
6 | █ Cobra | █ TOS 2 | 5.1 | 1377 |
7 | █ Scout | █ TOS 2 | 4.6 | 1242 |
8 | █ Trojan | █ TOS 2 | 4.7 | 1175 |
9 | █ Derrimut | █ TOS 2 | 4.5 | 1215 |
10 | █ Mace | █ TOS 2 | 5 | 1350 |
Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 220mm |
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SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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