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Companion annual legumes for perennial grass pastures - simulated annual legume seed bank

2009
CC BY 4.0

Research organisation
Funding source
West Midlands Group
<abbr title='FarmLink Research'>FarmLink</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) Geoff Moore (DAFWA)
Bradley Nutt (DAFWA)
John Titterington (DAFWA)
Brad Wintle (DAFWA)
Year(s) 2009
Contributor West Midlands Group
Trial location(s) Badgingarra, WA
Companion annual legumes for perennial grass pastures - simulated annual legume seed bank locations
Aims

To identify companion annual legumes for perennial grass based pastures and to develop reliable, low cost methods of establishment

Key messages
  • The trial results from 2009 demonstrate there may be a number of options for companion annual legumes for perennial grass based pastures.
  • The results need to be verified over a number of years with different seasonal conditions.
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Trial funding source FarmLink
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

This work was conducted as part of the Future Farm Industries CRC project FP07, ‘Persistent, productive tropical grasses for farming systems’. Thanks to Bob Hendry (Gillingarra), John Wilmott (Eneabba) and Tim Peacock (lessee Badgingarra Research Station) for use of their properties and/or assistance with the trials.
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop types Grain Legume: Lupins : N/A
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop : Variety
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Replicated

Badgingarra 2009 Lupins

Sow rate or Target density 100kg/ha of pod (except blue lupins 25kg/ha seed)
Sow date March 2009
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size 10m x 10m
Plot replication 4

Badgingarra 2009

Sow rate or Target density Not specified
Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
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Trial results Table 1

# Variety
 Biomass (kg/ha) Sown annual legume (plants/m2) Other annual legume (plants/m2) Sown annual legume (kg DM/ha) Other annual legume (kg DM/ha)
1 █ Margurita French serradella 4616 299 11 2509 478
2 █ Cadiz French serradella 4803 266 10 2651 373
3 █ Santorini yellow serradella 3754 38 9 735 486
4 █ Hard-seeded French serradella 3.1 4709 229 11 2841 330
5 █ Yellow serradella 72.1 4054 206 13 1947 598
6 █ Blue lupins (naturalised) 4691 7 49 1522 544

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Other annual legume plants/m2

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Other annual legume kg DM/ha

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Sown annual legume plants/m2

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Sown annual legume kg DM/ha

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Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Not specified
Soil conditions
Trial site Soil texture
Badgingarra, WA Not specified
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Badgingarra, WA Chromosol
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

Derived climate information

No observed climate data available for this trial.
Derived climate data is determined from trial site location and national weather sources.

Badgingarra WA

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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

2009 trial report



Trial last modified: 06-08-2019 07:54am AEST