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Barley agronomy trial

2009 - 2010
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Research organisation
Funding source
MacKillop Farm Management Group
<abbr title='Grains Research and Development Corporation'>GRDC</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) Trent Potter (SARDI)
Year(s) 2009 - 2010
Contributor MacKillop Farm Management Group
Trial location(s) Conmurra, SA
Frances, VIC
Barley agronomy trial locations
Aims

To assess the yields of a range of agronomic treatments on barley varieties at different sites.

Key messages
  • Highest grain yields were produced at the earlier sowing date at both sites.
  • Commander produced the highest grain yields at both sites with the lowest protein content.
  • Increased N application rates increased grain yield at both sites but significantly increased protein content at Frances.
  • Increased sowing rates have been shown to slightly increase grain yield but reduce screenings and protein so may assist in attaining the malting grade. 
     
Lead research organisation MacKillop Farm Management Group
Host research organisation MacKillop Farm Management Group
Trial funding source GRDC MFM00003
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

Trials undertaken by the SARDI New Variety Agronomy group. 
Other trial partners SARDI
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Method

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

Conmurra 2009

Sow rate or Target density Not specified
Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser Not specified
Herbicide Not specified
Fungicide Not specified

Conmurra 2010

Sow rate or Target density Not specified
Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser Not specified
Herbicide Not specified
Fungicide Not specified

Frances 2009

Sow rate or Target density Not specified
Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser Not specified
Herbicide Not specified
Fungicide Not specified

Frances 2010

Sow rate or Target density 250 seeds/m2
Sow date 12 May 2010 12/05/2010 and 02/06/2010
Harvest date 5 January 2011
Plot size 8m x 1.2m
Plot replication 3
Fertiliser

200 kg/ha Single Super at sowing. 28/7/2010: 50 kg/ha urea (23 Units N) spread by air. 12/5/2010 sowing: 8/6/2010: Spread N treatments. 2/6/2010 sowing: 9/7/2010: Spread N treatments.
Herbicide

12/5/2010 sowing: 11/5/2010: 2 l/ha Roundup Max, 2.5 l/ha Boxer Gold. 14/5/2010: 800 ml/ha Diuron. 29/7/2010: 2 l/ha Buctril MA. 2/6/2010 sowing: 11/5/2010: 2 l/ha Roundup Max, 2.5 l/ha Boxer Gold. 2/6/2010: 800 ml/ha Triflur X. 29/7/2010: 2 l/ha Buctril MA.
Fungicide

22/7/2010 (12/5/2010 sowing only), 30/8/2010 & 23/9/2010 (both sowing dates): 300 ml/ha Prosaro, 1 l/ha Hasten.
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Trial results Frances results

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Test weight (kg/hL) Screenings <2mm (%) 1000 grain weight (g) Grain yield (kg/ha) Plump Grain (>2.5 mm sieve) () Protein (%)
1 █ █ Sowing 12/5/2010 █ Nil fungicide 63.2 3.7 38.1 2707 52.2
2 █ █ Sowing 2/6/2010 █ Nil fungicide 62.8 1.8 41 2314 66.6
3 █ █ Sowing 12/5/2010 █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha 64.2 1.6 43 3548 72.3
4 █ █ Sowing 2/6/2010 █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha 62.1 2.5 39.5 1996 61.1
5 █ Buloke █ Nil fungicide █ 62 1.7 42.3 2236 57.7
6 █ Commander █ Nil fungicide █ 62.3 3 39 2788 66
7 █ Gairdner █ Nil fungicide █ 64.5 2.1 41.9 3143 56.5
8 █ Hindmarsh █ Nil fungicide █ 63.4 4.3 35.1 1875 56.8
9 █ Buloke █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 61.8 1.6 42.5 2372 57.4
10 █ Commander █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 62.7 1.7 41.4 3213 78.9
11 █ Gairdner █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 64.9 0.8 45.1 3537 72.7
12 █ Hindmarsh █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 63.2 4 35.8 1967 57.7
13 █ █ Nil fertilizer █ 62.9 2.1 40.8 2522 68 11.2
14 █ █ 25 kg/ha N █ 63.3 2.3 40.8 2675 64.8 11.5
15 █ █ 50 kg/ha N █ 63 2.5 40.1 2622 60.8 12
16 █ █ 100 kg/ha N █ 63.2 2.8 39.9 2748 58.7 12.5
17 █ Buloke █ Sowing 12/5/2010 █ 62.8 1.6 43 2854 60.6 11.3
18 █ Commander █ Sowing 12/5/2010 █ 62.7 3.2 39.6 3497 64.8 11.1
19 █ Gairdner █ Sowing 12/5/2010 █ 65.2 2 43.9 3937 63.9 10.4
20 █ Hindmarsh █ Sowing 12/5/2010 █ 64.3 3.8 35.7 2223 59.8 13.2
21 █ Buloke █ Sowing 2/6/2010 █ 61 1.7 41.8 1755 54.5 12.5
22 █ Commander █ Sowing 2/6/2010 █ 62.4 1.5 40.9 2504 80.8 11.4
23 █ Gairdner █ Sowing 2/6/2010 █ 64.2 0.8 43.2 2743 65.4 11.2
24 █ Hindmarsh █ Sowing 2/6/2010 █ 62.4 4.5 35.2 1619 54.8 13.4
25 █ █ Sowing rate 150 kg/ha █ Nil fungicide 2.6 2359 59.9
26 █ █ Sowing rate 150 kg/ha █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha 2.2 2755 66.1
27 █ █ Sowing rate 200 kg/ha █ Nil fungicide 2.9 2663 59
28 █ █ Sowing rate 200 kg/ha █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha 1.9 2790 67.3

1000 grain weight g

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Plump Grain (>2.5 mm sieve)

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Trial results Conmurra results

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Protein (%) Test weight (kg/hL) Screenings <2mm (%) 1000 grain weight (g) Grain yield (kg/ha) Plump Grain (>2.5 mm sieve) ()
1 █ █ █ Nil fungicide 50.1 63.2 3.7 3724 3.4 6
2 █ █ Sowing 19/5/2010 █ Nil fungicide 64.2 62.8 1.8 4552 1.7 6
3 █ █ Sowing 19/5/2010 █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha 74.4 64.2 1.6 4498 1.4 6.6
4 █ █ Sowing 15/6/2010 █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha 71.5 62.1 2.5 4925 1.1 6.8
5 █ Buloke █ Nil fungicide █ 58.6 62 1.7 4037 0 5.5
6 █ Commander █ Nil fungicide █ 70 62.3 3 4366 0 4.8
7 █ Gairdner █ Nil fungicide █ 33.1 64.5 2.1 3580 0.1 5.7
8 █ Hindmarsh █ Nil fungicide █ 66.9 63.4 4.3 4570 0 7.5
9 █ Buloke █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 68.2 61.8 1.6 4377
10 █ Commander █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 85 62.7 1.7 5208
11 █ Gairdner █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 58.5 64.9 0.8 4778
12 █ Hindmarsh █ Prosaro 300 ml/ha █ 80.1 63.2 4 4484
13 █ █ Nil fertilizer █ 68.6 62.9 2.1
14 █ █ 25 kg/ha N █ 66.4 63.3 2.3
15 █ █ 50 kg/ha N █ 62.3 63 2.5
16 █ █ 100 kg/ha N █ 62.9 63.2 2.8
17 █ █ █ 62.8 1.6
18 █ █ █ 62.7 3.2
19 █ █ █ 65.2 2
20 █ █ █ 64.3 3.8
21 █ █ █ 61 1.7
22 █ █ █ 62.4 1.5
23 █ █ █ 64.2 0.8
24 █ █ █ 62.4 4.5
25 █ █ █ 2.6
26 █ █ █ 2.2
27 █ █ █ 2.9
28 █ █ █ 1.9

1000 grain weight g

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Grain yield kg/ha

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Plump Grain (>2.5 mm sieve)

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Protein %

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Screenings <2mm %

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Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Not specified
Soil conditions
Trial site Soil texture
Conmurra, SA Not specified
Frances, VIC Clay (black)
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Conmurra, SA Sodosol
Frances, 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

Frances VIC 2010

Observed climate information

Rainfall trial gsr (mm) 398mm

Derived climate information

Conmurra VIC

Frances VIC

Conmurra VIC

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Frances VIC

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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

2010 trial report



Trial last modified: 19-12-2019 12:02pm AEST