| Researcher(s) |
Claire Browne (BCG) Rob Launder (Agritech Rural) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2014 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Horsham, VIC
|
| Further information | View external link |
| Related trials |
To determine whether sowing direction influences wheat and barley grain yields in the southern grains region.
| Lead research organisation |
Birchip Cropping Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC BWD00024 |
| Related program |
Advancing Profitable Farming Systems |
| Acknowledgments |
This project was jointly funded through the GRDC’s ‘Advancing Profitable Farming Systems’ (BWD00024) project and Agritech Rural, Horsham. |
| Other trial partners | Agritech Rural |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Barley |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Blocked |
| Sow rate or Target density | 130 plants/m² |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Knife points, press wheels, 30 cm row spacing |
| Sow date | 16 May 2014 16 May 2014 |
| Harvest date | 13 November 2014 13 November 2014, 28 November 2014 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
Granulock Supreme Z @ 50 kg/ha at sowing followed by urea @ 90kg/ha applied at GS14 and GS37 (total 180kg/ha) |
| Herbicide |
Weeds were controlled to best management practice. |
| Insecticide |
Pests were controlled to best management practice. |
| Fungicide |
Diseases were controlled to best management practice. |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Shield (E) | █ East/west | 2.3 |
| 2 | █ Grenade CLPlus (E-M) | █ East/west | 2.1 |
| 3 | █ LRPB Phantom (M-L) | █ East/west | 1.9 |
| 4 | █ LRPB Lancer (M-L) | █ East/west | 1.6 |
| 5 | █ Shield (E) | █ North/south | 2.1 |
| 6 | █ Grenade CLPlus (E-M) | █ North/south | 1.8 |
| 7 | █ LRPB Phantom (M-L) | █ North/south | 1.8 |
| 8 | █ LRPB Lancer (M-L) | █ North/south | 1.3 |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Shield (E) | █ East/west | 2.3 |
| 2 | █ Grenade CLPlus (E-M) | █ East/west | 2.1 |
| 3 | █ LRPB Phantom (M-L) | █ East/west | 1.9 |
| 4 | █ LRPB Lancer (M-L) | █ East/west | 1.6 |
| 5 | █ Shield (E) | █ North/south | 2.1 |
| 6 | █ Grenade CLPlus (E-M) | █ North/south | 1.8 |
| 7 | █ LRPB Phantom (M-L) | █ North/south | 1.8 |
| 8 | █ LRPB Lancer (M-L) | █ North/south | 1.3 |
| Rainfall avg ann (mm) | 226mm |
|---|---|
| Rainfall avg gsr (mm) | 172mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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