| Researcher(s) |
Claire Browne (BCG) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Kalkee, VIC
|
| Further information | View external link |
To determine the effect of stubble type (wheat, peas and canola) and load (from Decile 2, 5 and 8
seasons) on subsequent soil and crop nutrition.
| Lead research organisation |
Birchip Cropping Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC BWD00024 |
| Related program |
Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble |
| Acknowledgments |
This research was funded by the GRDC as part of the ‘Maintaining profitability in retained stubble systems’ project (BWD00024). |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | 140 plants/m² |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Knife point press wheels, 30cm row spacing |
| Sow date | 24 May 2016 |
| Harvest date | 21 December 2016 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Paddock history | 2014 wheat, 2015 wheat, peas, canola and fallow |
| Fertiliser |
Granulock Supreme Z + Impact® @ 50kg/ha at sowing |
| Herbicide |
24 May Triflur X® @ 1.5L/ha + Sakura® @ 118g/ha + Roundup PowerMAX® @ 2L/ha |
| Insecticide |
9 September Fastac® @250mL/ha + Lorsban® @200mL/ha + BS 1000 @ 0.25% |
| Fungicide |
27 September Prosaro® @ 300mL/ha + BS 1000 @ 0.25% |
| Seed treatment | Raxil® |
| @T1: | @T2: | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| # |
Treatment 1
|
Biomass (t/ha) | Biomass (t/ha) |
| 1 | █ Canola low | 6.7 | 12.9 |
| 1 | █ Canola mid | 7.2 | 11.2 |
| 2 | █ Canola high | 5.8 | 12.5 |
| 2 | █ Fallow | 7.1 | 13.4 |
| 3 | █ Peas low | 7.5 | 13.5 |
| 3 | █ Peas mid | 7.6 | 13.1 |
| 4 | █ Peas high | 8.6 | 13.6 |
| 4 | █ Wheat low | 5.7 | 10.6 |
| 5 | █ Wheat mid | 5.7 | 11.4 |
| 5 | █ Wheat high | 5.7 | 9.9 |
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| Rainfall trial total (mm) | 462mm |
|---|---|
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 374mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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