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Conserving moisture during summer

2008

Research organisation
Birchip Cropping Group

Trial details

Researcher(s) N/A
Year(s) 2008
Contributor Birchip Cropping Group
Trial location(s) Hopetoun, VIC
Conserving moisture during summer locations
Aims

To quantify how paddock stubble load and weed burden during summer can affect soil water, nutrients and subsequent crop yield.

Key messages
  • Conserving summer rain is one of the most effective ways of improving crop yield.
  • Summer weeds have the biggest impact on how much summer rain is stored and made available to crops.
  • The presence of stubble has never been shown to have a large positive effect on the storage of summer rain in southern Australia, but it might lengthen the sowing window after the break and improve establishment.
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

This project was funded by GRDC projects BWD00012 Yielding benefits through partnerships and CPS00111 Identifying farm-scale opportunities to improve WUE: A nationally coordinated systems approach.
Other trial partners Not specified

Method

Crop type Cereal (Grain): Barley
Trial type
Trial design

Hopetoun 2008

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Trial source data and summary not available
Check the trial report PDF for trial results.
Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Not specified
Soil conditions
Trial site Soil texture
Hopetoun, VIC Not specified
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Hopetoun, VIC Tenosol
Soil Moisture Source: BOM/ANU
Average amount of water stored in the soil profile during the year, estimated by the OzWALD model-data fusion system.
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Climate

Derived climate information

No observed climate data available for this trial.
Derived climate data is determined from trial site location and national weather sources.

Hopetoun VIC

NOTE: Exact trial site locality unknown - Climate data may not be accurate
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Some data on this site is sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology

SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
Jeffrey, S.J., Carter, J.O., Moodie, K.B. and Beswick, A.R. (2001). Using spatial interpolation to construct a comprehensive archive of Australian climate data , Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol 16/4, pp 309-330. DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(01)00008-1.

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Trial last modified: 06-08-2019 07:54am AEST