| Researcher(s) |
Stephen Davies (DAFWA) David Gartner (Aglime of Australia) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2010 |
| Contributor | West Midlands Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Moora, WA
|
To demonstrate how soil inversion using a mouldbaord plough could be used to incorporate lime into acidic subsoil, overcome soil water repellance and control weeds and to measure its in=mpact and growth.
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC DAW00204 |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Michael Brennan for provision of the site and access to the trial. |
| Other trial partners | AGLIME Australia |
| Crop type | Oilseed: Canola |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Demonstration |
| Trial design | Unreplicated |
| Sow date | Not specified |
|---|---|
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | 30m x 100m |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
80kg MAPplus 25kg Potash at seeding 80kg urea top up on 9/7/10 |
| Herbicide |
2 post sprays of glyphosate |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Treatment 2
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Scorpion | █ Nil Lime | █ No plough | 0.7 |
| 2 | █ Scorpion | █ Lime 2t/ha | █ No plough | 0.75 |
| 3 | █ Scorpion | █ Lime 4t/ha | █ No plough | 0.7 |
| 4 | █ Scorpion | █ Nil Lime | █ Mouldboard | 1.25 |
| 5 | █ Scorpion | █ Nil Lime | █ Mouldboard | 0.9 |
| 6 | █ Scorpion | █ Lime 2t/ha | █ Mouldboard | 1.1 |
| 7 | █ Scorpion | █ Lime 4t/ha | █ Mouldboard | 0.82 |
| 8 | █ Scorpion | █ Lime 2 x 2t/ha | █ Mouldboard | 0.83 |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 221mm |
|---|
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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