| Researcher(s) |
Alison Frischke (BCG) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Warmur, VIC
|
| Further information | View external link |
| Related trials |
To evaluate the early biomass production, hay and grain yield of oat varieties, as well as their response to a herbicide strategy, in the southern Mallee and Wimmera.
| Lead research organisation |
Birchip Cropping Group |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC SFS00028 |
| Related program |
Grain & Graze 3 |
| Acknowledgments |
This research was funded by the GRDC as part of the Grain & Graze 3 – Southern Region project (SFS00028), Agritech Rural Horsham and BCG members through their membership. |
| 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 | 130 plants/m² |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Knife points, press wheels, 30cm row spacing |
| Sow date | 4 May 2016 |
| Harvest date | 27 November 2016 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Paddock history | 2015 fallow |
| Fertiliser |
Granulock® Supreme Z @ 50kg/ha at sowing, urea @ 50kg/ha on 23 June at GS30, urea @ 60kg/ha 29 August at GS45 |
| Herbicide |
Sowing Dual Gold 500ml/ha, Diuron 500ml/ha 27/6 Liase 2%, Lontrel Advanced 75ml/ha, Hasten 1%, Precept 300 EC 700ml/ha |
| Insecticide |
9/8 Lorsban 140ml/ha 7/8 Lorsban 400ml/ha |
| Fungicide |
23/8 Propicon 550EC 230ml/ha 28/9 Propiconazole 230ml/ha
|
| # | Variety |
Anthesis biomass (t/ha) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Test weight (kg/hL) | Biomass (t/ha) | Lodging (1-10) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Bannister | 13.1 | 8.5 | 53.9 | 0.7 | 2.1 |
| 2 | █ Dunnart | 12.7 | 7.1 | 50.7 | 0.73 | 3 |
| 3 | █ Williams | 9 | 7.1 | 52.8 | 0.8 | 3.8 |
| 4 | █ Wombat | 11.4 | 7 | 53.5 | 0.82 | 1.5 |
| 5 | █ 03198-18 | 8 | 6.3 | 51.9 | 0.62 | 1.3 |
| 6 | █ Mitika | 8.9 | 6.1 | 52.5 | 0.77 | 1.5 |
| 7 | █ Possum | 13.2 | 5.9 | 51.8 | 0.67 | 1.8 |
| 8 | █ Durack | 8.5 | 4.7 | 49.8 | 0.71 | 3.5 |
| 9 | █ Yallara | 11.1 | 3.7 | 52.1 | 0.63 | 4.3 |
| 10 | █ Wandering | 13.1 | 7.2 | 53 | 1.08 | 1.5 |
| 11 | █ Wintaroo | 12.6 | 4.3 | 51.7 | 0.77 | 6 |
| 12 | █ Echidna | 12.1 | 7.9 | 52.4 | 0.73 | 1.3 |
| 13 | █ Brusher | 9.7 | 4.3 | 47.6 | 0.68 | 8.5 |
| 14 | █ Mulgara | 8.5 | 4.2 | 48.4 | 0.61 | 7 |
| Rainfall trial total (mm) | 444mm |
|---|---|
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 371mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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