Researcher(s) |
Phillip Barrett (Lennard (Agvivo)) Sheree Blechynden (Lennard (Agvivo)) Sarah Hyde (Facey Group) |
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Year(s) | 2014 |
Contributor | Facey Group |
Trial location(s) |
Wickepin, WA
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Related trials |
To assess the impact of (and interaction between) grazing and frost damage on the grain yield and quality of a range of winter and spring cereal varieties sown at two times of sowing.
Lead research organisation | N/A |
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Host research organisation |
Facey Group |
Trial funding source | GRDC FGI00010 |
Related program |
Grain & Graze 3 |
Acknowledgments |
The GRDC funded Grain & Graze 3 project for funding this research. Gary Lang and Facey Group for hosting and conducting the Wickepin trial in coordination with Phil Barrett-Lennard (Agvivo). Living Farm for managing the trial site. James Hunt and Bill Sharpe for statistical analysis. GRDC, Heritage Seeds, Bell Pasture Seeds, Bernie Panizza, Mike Cameron and Rob Warburton for supplying seed. |
Other trial partners | Not specified |
Crop types | Forage: Oats Cereal (Grain): Wheat Cereal (Grain): Barley |
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Treatment type(s) |
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Trial type | |
Trial design |
Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
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Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
Sow date | Not specified |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Psuedoreplication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Insecticide | Not specified |
Internal notes |
In these experiments, cereal crops were sown 2 to 4 weeks earlier than standard district practise. This significantly increased the amount of crop biomass available for grazing in early to mid-winter. As an example, the increase in available biomass at Wickepin from early sowing was over 600% (599 vs 95 kg/ha). If additional livestock production is a major priority from grazing crops, early sowing is a must. |
Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
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Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
Sow date | Not specified |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Psuedoreplication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Insecticide | Not specified |
Internal notes |
In these experiments, cereal crops were sown 2 to 4 weeks earlier than standard district practise. This significantly increased the amount of crop biomass available for grazing in early to mid-winter. As an example, the increase in available biomass at Wickepin from early sowing was over 600% (599 vs 95 kg/ha). If additional livestock production is a major priority from grazing crops, early sowing is a must. |
Sow rate or Target density | 75Kg/ha |
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Sow rate or Target density | 75Kg/ha |
Sow date | 23 April 2014 Time of sowing 1: 23-04-2014, Time of sowing 2: 27-05-2014 |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | 10m x 1.5m |
Plot replication | 3 |
Psuedoreplication | Not specified |
Fertiliser |
Pre - 100kg/ha DAP + 50kg/ha urea |
Herbicide |
Wheat Pre - 118g/ha Sakura + 250g/ha Diuron + 1.5L/ha Trifluralin |
Insecticide |
200mL/ha Bifenthrin |
Internal notes |
In these experiments, cereal crops were sown 2 to 4 weeks earlier than standard district practise. This significantly increased the amount of crop biomass available for grazing in early to mid-winter. As an example, the increase in available biomass at Wickepin from early sowing was over 600% (599 vs 95 kg/ha). If additional livestock production is a major priority from grazing crops, early sowing is a must. |
# | Variety |
Treatment 1
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Treatment 2
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Treatment 3
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Grain yield (t/ha) | Dry matter grazed (kg/ha) | Maturity (days from seeding to flowering) (no. of days) |
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1 | █ Mace | █ Wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 2.5 | 822 | 149 |
2 | █ Magenta | █ Wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 2.6 | 619 | 149 |
3 | █ Forrest | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 2.8 | 561 | 160 |
4 | █ Currawong | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 3.3 | 434 | 153 |
5 | █ Wedgetail | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 2.9 | 459 | 156 |
6 | █ Manning | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 2.1 | 285 | 177 |
7 | █ Hindmarsh | █ Barley | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 2.8 | 732 | 128 |
8 | █ Oxford | █ Barley | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 3.5 | 522 | 130 |
9 | █ Urambie | █ Barley | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 3.1 | 420 | 130 |
10 | █ Bannister | █ Oats | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 3 | 923 | 139 |
11 | █ Eurabbie | █ Oats | █ TOS1 | █ Grazed | 2.7 | 805 | 139 |
12 | █ Mace | █ Wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 3.6 | 127 | |
13 | █ Magenta | █ Wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 4.1 | 128 | |
14 | █ Forrest | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 3.9 | 149 | |
15 | █ Currawong | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 3.9 | 149 | |
16 | █ Wedgetail | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 3.7 | 149 | |
17 | █ Manning | █ wheat | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 2.8 | 176 | |
18 | █ Hindmarsh | █ Barley | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 4.6 | 110 | |
19 | █ Oxford | █ Barley | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 5.3 | 118 | |
20 | █ Urambie | █ Barley | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 3.4 | 125 | |
21 | █ Bannister | █ Oats | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 4.1 | 121 | |
22 | █ Eurabbie | █ Oats | █ TOS1 | █ Ungrazed | 3.9 | 135 | |
23 | █ Mace | █ Wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.2 | 116 | 115 |
24 | █ Magenta | █ Wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.7 | 118 | 119 |
25 | █ Forrest | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.1 | 82 | 136 |
26 | █ Currawong | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.9 | 107 | 129 |
27 | █ Wedgetail | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3 | 114 | 129 |
28 | █ Manning | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 1.1 | 133 | 150 |
29 | █ Hindmarsh | █ Barley | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.7 | 83 | 100 |
30 | █ Oxford | █ Barley | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.9 | 85 | 112 |
31 | █ Urambie | █ Barley | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.3 | 45 | 108 |
32 | █ Bannister | █ Oats | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 4.1 | 79 | 107 |
33 | █ Eurabbie | █ Oats | █ TOS2 | █ Grazed | 3.7 | 80 | 112 |
34 | █ Mace | █ Wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 3.8 | 115 | |
35 | █ Magenta | █ Wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 3.8 | 119 | |
36 | █ Forrest | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 3.4 | 135 | |
37 | █ Currawong | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 3.7 | 129 | |
38 | █ Wedgetail | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 3.2 | 129 | |
39 | █ Manning | █ wheat | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 1.2 | 150 | |
40 | █ Hindmarsh | █ Barley | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 4.2 | 98 | |
41 | █ Oxford | █ Barley | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 4.1 | 107 | |
42 | █ Urambie | █ Barley | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 3.6 | 107 | |
43 | █ Bannister | █ Oats | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 4.5 | 106 | |
44 | █ Eurabbie | █ Oats | █ TOS2 | █ Ungrazed | 4.1 | 112 |
Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 321mm |
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SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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