Researcher(s) |
Alison Frischke (BCG) Dannielle Ick (BCG) |
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Year(s) | 2014 |
Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
Trial location(s) |
Quambatook, VIC
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Further information | View external link |
To validate the effect of grazing intensity and growth stage on forage value and yield response of different wheat varieties, with sowing times suited to cultivar.
Lead research organisation |
Birchip Cropping Group |
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Host research organisation | N/A |
Trial funding source | GRDC SFS00028 |
Related program |
Grain & Graze 3 |
Acknowledgments |
This research was funded through GRDC‘s ‘Grain & Graze 3’ project (SFS00028). |
Other trial partners | Not specified |
Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
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Treatment type(s) |
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Trial type | Experimental |
Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
Sow rate or Target density | 150 plants/m² |
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Sowing machinery |
Knife points, press wheels, 30cm row spacing |
Sow date | 1 April 2014 1 April 2014 (TOS 1) and 6 May 2014 (TOS 2) |
Harvest date | 14 November 2014 14 November 2014 (TOS 1) and 1 December 2014 (TOS 2) |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Fertiliser |
Granulock supreme Z @ 50kg/ha at sowing plus 180kg/ha of urea (83 kg N/ha) top-dressed in two separate applications |
Herbicide |
Weeds were controlled to be management practices. |
Insecticide |
Pests were controlled to best management practices. |
Fungicide |
Diseases were controlled to best management practice. |
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Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Neutral detergent fibre (% of DM) | Total dry sheep equivalent grazing days (day) | Plant height (cm) | Screenings (%) | Crude protein (% of DM) | Metabolisable energy (MJ/kg DM) | Dry matter (t/ha) | Dry matter (t/ha) |
1 | █ Rosella | █ Ungrazed | █ | 15.5 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 6.4 | ||||||
1 | █ Rosella | █ Early GS16 | █ Moderate | 15.2 | 0.76 | 38.9 | 550 | 3.6 | 31.9 | 12 | 0.37 | 5.8 | |
2 | █ Rosella | █ Early GS16 | █ Heavy | 14.9 | 0.83 | 34.4 | 1098 | 3.9 | 30.7 | 12.1 | 0.73 | 5.75 | |
2 | █ Rosella | █ Late GS30 | █ Light | 14.9 | 0.83 | 44.4 | 528 | 3.8 | 25.1 | 11.4 | 0.38 | 5.21 | |
2 | █ Rosella | █ Late GS30 | █ Moderate | 14.5 | 0.86 | 43.2 | 1014 | 3.3 | 22.3 | 11.2 | 0.71 | 5.18 | |
3 | █ Rosella | █ Late GS30 | █ Heavy | 14.4 | 0.89 | 48 | 2082 | 3.6 | 20.6 | 10.6 | 1.57 | 4.23 | |
3 | █ Rosella | █ Ungrazed | █ | 12.9 | 1.58 | 5.8 | 5.75 | ||||||
3 | █ Rosella | █ Early GS16 | █ Moderate | 12.4 | 1.5 | 42.4 | 440 | 15 | 5.1 | 27.6 | 12 | 0.28 | 5.84 |
4 | █ Rosella | █ Early GS16 | █ Heavy | 12.2 | 1.35 | 36.7 | 949 | 10 | 5.8 | 31.6 | 12.6 | 0.63 | 4.53 |
4 | █ Rosella | █ Late GS30 | █ Light | 12.5 | 1.29 | 35.6 | 375 | 25 | 7.2 | 30.3 | 12.4 | 0.24 | 5.72 |
4 | █ Rosella | █ Late GS30 | █ Moderate | 12.4 | 1.19 | 37.6 | 810 | 15 | 8.2 | 29.2 | 11.8 | 0.55 | 4.56 |
5 | █ Rosella | █ Late GS30 | █ Heavy | 12.7 | 1.05 | 42.7 | 1603 | 10 | 11.1 | 22.4 | 11.3 | 1.14 | 3.87 |
5 | █ Rosella | █ Ungrazed | █ | 11.5 | 2.21 | 3.5 | 6.3 | ||||||
5 | █ Rosella | █ Early GS16 | █ Moderate | 11 | 2.07 | 749 | 15 | 3.6 | 0.49 | 5.05 | |||
6 | █ Rosella | █ Late GS30 | █ Moderate | 11.7 | 2.02 | 620 | 15 | 4.9 | 0.42 | 5.48 | |||
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Rainfall trial total (mm) | 239mm |
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Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 168mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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