Researcher(s) |
Nick Poole (FAR Australia) Michael Straight (FAR Australia) Tracey Wylie (FAR Australia) |
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Year(s) | 2015 |
Contributor | Riverine Plains |
Trial location(s) |
Corowa, NSW
Henty, NSW Dookie, VIC Yarrawonga, VIC |
The project seeks to:
Lead research organisation |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
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Host research organisation | N/A |
Trial funding source | GRDC |
Related program |
Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble |
Acknowledgments |
Thanks to the farmer co-operator, Peter Campbell (Henty, NSW). |
Other trial partners | Not specified |
Crop types | Cereal (Grain): Wheat Oilseed: Canola Cereal (Grain): Barley |
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Treatment type(s) |
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Trial type | Experimental |
Trial design | Replicated |
Sow date | 7 May 2015 |
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Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | 40m x 15m |
Plot replication | 4 |
Herbicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Insecticide |
host farmer paddock management |
Fungicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Other trial notes | Not specified |
Sow date | 21 April 2015 |
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Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | 40m x 15m |
Plot replication | 4 |
Herbicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Insecticide |
host farmer paddock management |
Fungicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Other trial notes |
GSR (Apr-Oct) |
Sow date | 12 May 2015 |
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Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | 40m x 18m |
Plot replication | 4 |
Herbicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Insecticide |
host farmer paddock management |
Fungicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Other trial notes | Not specified |
Sow date | 13 May 2015 |
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Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | 40m x 18m |
Plot replication | 4 |
Herbicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Insecticide |
host farmer paddock management |
Fungicide |
host farmer paddock management |
Other trial notes | Not specified |
# |
Treatment 1
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Treatment 2
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Establishment plants (plants/m2) | Protein (%) | Moisture (%) | Oil (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) |
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1 | █ No till stubble retention | █ 0 kg N/ha | 42 | 19.1 | 5.4 | 44.5 | 1.24 |
2 | █ No till stubble retention | █ 40kg N/ha | 43 | 21.7 | 5.1 | 41 | 1.32 |
3 | █ Mulched | █ 0 kg N/ha | 34 | 20.6 | 5 | 43.6 | 1.44 |
4 | █ Mulched | █ 40kg N/ha | 39 | 20.4 | 4.8 | 43.6 | 1.39 |
5 | █ Cultivated (one pass) | █ 0 kg N/ha | 59 | 20.3 | 4.9 | 44.3 | 1.43 |
6 | █ Cultivated (one pass) | █ 40kg N/ha | 62 | 20.8 | 4.8 | 43.7 | 1.35 |
# | Establishment plants (plants/m2) | Hectolitre weight (kg/hL) | Screenings (%) | 1000 grain weight (g) | Harvest index (value) | Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | F-1 leaf area affected by yellow spot (%) | |
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1 | █ No till full stubble retention (control) | 114 | 78.8 | 3.5 | 31.3 | 42.8 | 10.9 | 4.33 | 0.2 |
2 | █ Cultivate (one passes) | 118 | 78.7 | 3.2 | 36.1 | 40.4 | 11.4 | 4.18 | 0.2 |
3 | █ Cultivate (one passes) + 40 kg N/ha | 114 | 78.7 | 3.5 | 28.9 | 46.8 | 11.5 | 4.69 | 0.2 |
4 | █ Burn | 126 | 79.8 | 3.6 | 35.2 | 37.7 | 11.4 | 3.77 | 0.3 |
# | Establishment plants (plants/m2) | Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Hectolitre weight (kg/hL) | Screenings (%) | 1000 grain weight (g) | |
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1 | █ NTSR (long stubble) | 167 | 15.6 | 3.13 | 78.8 | 19.9 | 21.1 |
2 | █ NTSR (long stubble) + 40 kg N/ha | 178 | 15.6 | 3.2 | 78.5 | 21 | 21.1 |
3 | █ NTSR (short stubble) | 164 | 14.8 | 3.35 | 79.2 | 17.7 | 22.3 |
4 | █ Straw Removed | 185 | 14.9 | 3.03 | 78.3 | 22.6 | 21.1 |
5 | █ Cultivate (one pass) | 179 | 14.8 | 3.1 | 79 | 19.1 | 21.3 |
6 | █ Cultivate (one pass) + 40 kg N/ha | 177 | 15.7 | 3.05 | 78.9 | 22 | 21.3 |
7 | █ Burnt | 185 | 15 | 2.93 | 77.9 | 25.2 | 20.8 |
# | Hectolitre weight (kg/hL) | Screenings (%) | 1000 grain weight (g) | Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | |
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1 | █ Long stubble | 69.8 | 45.8 | 17.3 | 15 | 2.41 |
2 | █ Short stubble | 70.6 | 43.7 | 17.1 | 13.6 | 2.52 |
3 | █ Cultivate (one passes) | 68.1 | 47.3 | 16.4 | 12.9 | 2.39 |
4 | █ Straw Removed | 66.4 | 57.7 | 16.1 | 13.5 | 2.32 |
5 | █ Burn | 68.6 | 50.3 | 16.5 | 13.3 | 2.49 |
Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 329mm |
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Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 391mm |
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Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 233mm |
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Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 266mm |
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SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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