Researcher(s) |
Mark Seymour (DAFWA) |
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Year(s) | 2016 |
Contributor | Department of Agriculture and Food WA |
Trial location(s) |
Grass Patch, WA
Pingrup, WA Varley, WA |
To evaluate the response of canola to low fertiliser inputs
Lead research organisation |
Department of Agriculture and Food WA |
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Host research organisation | N/A |
Trial funding source | GRDC DAW00227 |
Related program |
Tactical Break Crop Agronomy |
Acknowledgments |
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Other trial partners | Not specified |
Crop type | Oilseed: Canola |
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Treatment type(s) |
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Trial type | Experimental |
Trial design | Randomised,Replicated |
Sow rate or Target density | Target density of 30 plants/m² |
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Sowing machinery |
Coneseeder with knife points and press wheels, capacity to deep band of topdress fertiliser in one pass whilst sowing seed as per treatment requirements |
Sow date | 28 April 2016 |
Harvest date | 8 October 2016 |
Plot size | 20m x 1.54m |
Plot replication | 4 |
Fertiliser |
As per treatments listed in attached report. |
Herbicide |
27 April 2016 - pre-sowing sprayed @ 2.5L/ha of Sprayseed 28 April 2016 - pre-sowing sprayed @ 1.1L/ha Atrazine IBS 28 April 2016 - pre-sowing sprayed @1L/ha Treflan 5 July 2016 -post-emergent sprayed @ 0.5% Uptake 5 July 2016 -post-emergent sprayed @ 0.1L/ha Verdict 520 16 August 2016 - post-emergent pathways 16 August 2016 - post-emergent sprayed @ 2L/ha Roundup Ultra pathways 27 October 2016 - post-emergent sprayed @ 0.1% wetter 27 October 2016 - post-emergent sprayed @ 3L/ha Reglone |
Fungicide |
Seed treated with Maxim Xl and Cruiser Opti. |
Seed treatment | Seed treated with Maxim Xl and Cruiser Opti |
Tillage | knife points |
Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
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Sowing machinery | Not specified |
Sow date | Not specified |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Fungicide | Not specified |
Seed treatment | Not specified |
Tillage | Not specified |
Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
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Sowing machinery | Not specified |
Sow date | Not specified |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Fungicide | Not specified |
Seed treatment | Not specified |
Tillage | Not specified |
# |
Treatment 1
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Treatment 2
|
Treatment 3
|
Grain yield (t/ha) | Gross margin ($/ha) |
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1 | █ No fertiliser | █ Nil | █ | 0.87 | 327 |
2 | █ Superphosphate | █ Nil | █ | 0.96 | 345 |
3 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing | █ Nil | █ | 0.98 | 347 |
4 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 400 kg Gypsum/ha | █ Nil | █ | 0.94 | 358 |
5 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 100 kg MOP/ha | █ Nil | █ | 0.88 | 261 |
6 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha | █ Nil | █ | 1.03 | 362 |
7 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha | █ Nil | █ | 1.06 | 303 |
8 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha + Micro sprays | █ Nil | █ | 1 | 260 |
9 | █ No fertiliser | █ 15N | █ | 0.94 | 340 |
10 | █ Superphosphate | █ 15N | █ | 1 | 344 |
11 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing | █ 15N | █ | 1.14 | 409 |
12 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 400 kg Gypsum/ha | █ 15N | █ | 0.92 | 320 |
13 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 100 kg MOP/ha | █ 15N | █ | 0.9 | 245 |
14 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha | █ 15N | █ | 1.15 | 407 |
15 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha | █ 15N | █ | 1.06 | 285 |
16 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha + Micro sprays | █ 15N | █ | 1.05 | 265 |
17 | █ No fertiliser | █ Nil | █ 15N | 1.02 | 393 |
18 | █ Superphosphate | █ Nil | █ 15N | 1 | 338 |
19 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing | █ Nil | █ 15N | 1.18 | 438 |
20 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 400 kg Gypsum/ha | █ Nil | █ 15N | 1.02 | 374 |
21 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 100 kg MOP/ha | █ Nil | █ 15N | 0.98 | 292 |
22 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha | █ Nil | █ 15N | 1.14 | 395 |
23 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha | █ Nil | █ 15N | 1.15 | 336 |
24 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha + Micro sprays | █ Nil | █ 15N | 1.11 | 301 |
25 | █ No fertiliser | █ 15N | █ 15N | 1.05 | 381 |
26 | █ Superphosphate | █ 15N | █ 15N | 1.01 | 321 |
27 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing | █ 15N | █ 15N | 1.16 | 399 |
28 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 400 kg Gypsum/ha | █ 15N | █ 15N | 1.07 | 373 |
29 | █ No fertiliser at sowing plus 100 kg MOP/ha | █ 15N | █ 15N | 0.97 | 264 |
30 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha | █ 15N | █ 15N | 1.3 | 460 |
31 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha | █ 15N | █ 15N | 1.19 | 336 |
32 | █ Superphosphate + 10 kg N/ha at sowing + 400 Gypsum/ha + 100 MOP/ha + Micro sprays | █ 15N | █ 15N | 1.11 | 268 |
Rainfall avg ann (mm) | 347mm |
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Rainfall avg gsr (mm) | 246mm |
Rainfall trial total (mm) | 396mm |
Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 258mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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