| Researcher(s) |
Alison Frischke (BCG) Pamela Zwer (SARDI) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Berriwillock, VIC
|
| Further information | View external link |
To evaluate the yield performance of milling oat varieties, and the grazing value, hay and grain yield of grazing-hay oat varieties in the southern Mallee.
| Lead research organisation |
Birchip Cropping Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC BWD00081 |
| Related program |
Grain & Graze 3 |
| Acknowledgments |
This research was funded by the GRDC as part of the Grain & Graze 3 project (BWD00081). Grain was provided by the National Oat Breeding Program at SARDI. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Forage: Oats |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow rate or Target density | Milling oats – 165 plants/m², Grazing/hay oats – 200 plants/m² |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Knife points, press wheels, 30cm row spacing |
| Sow date | 24 April 2015 24 April 2015 |
| Harvest date | 10 November 2015 10 November 2015 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
Granulock Supreme Z + Impact @ 50kg/ha at sowing Urea @ 45kg/ha applied at GS20 (9 July) |
| 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) | Hay biomass at anthesis (kg/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Brusher | █ Grazed | 0.38 | 1786 |
| 2 | █ Brusher | █ Ungrazed | 0.51 | 2180 |
| 3 | █ Mulgara | █ Grazed | 0.5 | 1985 |
| 4 | █ Mulgara | █ Ungrazed | 0.68 | 2032 |
| 5 | █ Tungoo | █ Grazed | 0.08 | 1527 |
| 6 | █ Tungoo | █ Ungrazed | 0.1 | 2000 |
| 7 | █ WA02Q302-9 | █ Grazed | 0.63 | 1525 |
| 8 | █ WA02Q302-9 | █ Ungrazed | 0.63 | 2067 |
| 9 | █ Wintaroo | █ Grazed | 0.31 | 1895 |
| 10 | █ Wintaroo | █ Ungrazed | 0.49 | 2036 |
| 11 | █ Yallara | █ Grazed | 0.6 | 1836 |
| 12 | █ Yallara | █ Ungrazed | 0.69 | 2120 |
| Rainfall trial total (mm) | 241mm |
|---|---|
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 141mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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