| Researcher(s) |
Geoff Fosbery (ConsultAg) Brad Joyce (ConsultAg) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Contributor | ConsultAg |
| Trial location(s) |
Merredin, WA
|
This trial has shown that canola can be grown in the eastern wheat belt of WA, given the paddock was in a previous 10 month fallow and/or there has been enough March/April rain to allow the crop to germinate and survive from an early April sowing. It has also shown the ability of grazing to alter the flowering window and that in a mixed farming operation grazing canola can save costs associated with upplementary feeding in early winter, with minimal yield loss to the canola.
Variety – Snapper
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC |
| Related program |
Regional Cropping Solutions Network |
| Acknowledgments | N/A |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Oilseed: Canola |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | 2.3 kg/ha |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Morris Contour 2 drill. Primary sales 12mm knifepoint with 45mm Y splitter boot. |
| Sow date | 2 April and 20 April 2015 |
| Harvest date | Unknown |
| Plot size | 18.3m x 200m |
| Plot replication | 4 |
| Fertiliser |
Agras @ 80kg/ha and urea @ 40kg/ha deep banded – urea @ 40kg/ha topdressed. Urea was applied on 30 July. |
| Seed treatment | seeding depth 5-10mm |
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Oil (%) | Protein (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Canola germinated 2 April ungrazed | 47.2 | 20 |
| 2 | █ Canola germinated 2 April grazed early | 47.4 | 19.9 |
| 3 | █ Canola germinated 2 April grazed late | 46.2 | 20.3 |
| 4 | █ Canola germinated 2 April grazed early and late | 46.5 | 20.1 |
| 5 | █ Canola germinated 20 April ungrazed | 45.5 | 20.5 |
| 6 | █ Canola germinated 20 April grazed early | 44.9 | 20.6 |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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