| Researcher(s) |
De-Anne Ferrier (BCG) Laura Goward (BCG) Mark Peoples (CSIRO) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2014 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Beulah, VIC
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| Further information | View external link |
| Related trials |
To determine how the management of a vetch crop (termination timing and end-use) influences the yield and quality of a following wheat crop grown for two consecutive years.
| Lead research organisation |
Birchip Cropping Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC CSP00146 |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
This research was funded through GRDC‘s ‘Facilitating increased on-farm adoption of broadleaf species in crop sequences to improve grain production and profitability’ project (CSP00146). |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Hay: Vetch |
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| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Blocked |
| Sow rate or Target density | 150 plants/m² |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Knife points, press wheels, 30cm row spacing |
| Sow date | 28 April 2014 28 April 2014 |
| Harvest date | 11 November 2014 11 November 2014 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
Granulock Supreme Z + Impact @ 50kg/ha at sowing, plus urea @ 45kg/ha at GS22 (June 13). |
| Herbicide |
Weeds were controlled to best management practices. |
| Insecticide |
Pests were controlled to best management practices. |
| Fungicide |
Diseases were controlled to best management practice. |
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Treatment 1
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Treatment 2
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Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Test weight (kg/hL) | Dry matter (t/ha) | NDVI (.) | NDVI (.) |
| 1 | █ Hay | █ 17 September | 14.2 | 0.1 | 67.5 | 2.4 | 0.46 | 0.31 |
| 1 | █ Brown Manure | █ 17 September | 15.2 | 0.1 | 57.3 | 2.3 | 0.51 | 0.34 |
| 1 | █ Incorporation | █ 17 September | 14.7 | 0.1 | 67.5 | 2.5 | 0.48 | 0.32 |
| 2 | █ Grazed (x2) | █ 8 June, 25 June, 24 September | 14.4 | 0.1 | 64.7 | 2.6 | 0.46 | 0.33 |
| 2 | █ Harvest (control) | █ 13 November | 13.3 | 0.1 | 66.6 | 2.6 | 0.51 | 0.35 |
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| Rainfall avg gsr (mm) | 108mm |
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SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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