| Researcher(s) |
Alison Frischke (BCG) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Contributor | Birchip Cropping Group |
| Trial location(s) |
Kalkee, 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) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Randomised,Replicated,Blocked |
| Sow rate or Target density | 180 plants/m² |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Knife points, press wheels, 30cm row spacing |
| Sow date | 15 April 2016 |
| Harvest date | 21 December 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 19 July at GS35, urea @ 50kg/ha 23 August at GS45 |
| Herbicide |
Sowing Glyphosate 2l/ha, Diuron 500g/ha, Dual Gold 500ml/ha
|
| Fungicide |
At Kalkee, complete control of disease was achieved by Prosaro® @ 150mL/ha on 5 August, propiconazole @ 230mL/ha on 1 September and propiconazole @ 230mL/ha on 27 September. Nil disease control plots received no fungicides |
| # | Variety |
Anthesis biomass (t/ha) | Grain yield (t/ha) | NDVI (.) | Lodging (1-10) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ Bannister | 6 | 8.8 | 0.77 | 1.8 |
| 2 | █ Kojonup | 8.6 | 7.9 | 0.72 | 1.8 |
| 3 | █ Wombat | 8.2 | 7.7 | 0.79 | 1.3 |
| 4 | █ Williams | 9.2 | 7.6 | 0.78 | 3.5 |
| 5 | █ Dunnart | 9 | 7.3 | 0.8 | 1.3 |
| 6 | █ 03198-18 | 6.3 | 7.2 | 0.77 | 0 |
| 7 | █ Mitika | 8.4 | 7 | 0.79 | 0.5 |
| 8 | █ Possum | 8.9 | 7 | 0.8 | 1.2 |
| 9 | █ Durack | 7.9 | 5.4 | 0.8 | 2.6 |
| 10 | █ Yallara | 9 | 3.9 | 0.72 | 2.5 |
| 11 | █ Brusher | 8.6 | 4.8 | 0.81 | 6.8 |
| 12 | █ Wandering | 8.4 | 7.5 | 0.81 | 1.8 |
| 13 | █ Kangaroo | 8.3 | 3.3 | 0.71 | 3.5 |
| 14 | █ Echidna | 8.1 | 8.4 | 0.77 | 1.3 |
| 15 | █ Wintaroo | 7.9 | 4.3 | 0.76 | 6.2 |
| 16 | █ Mulgara | 7.7 | 3.6 | 0.72 | 5.2 |
| 17 | █ Forrester | 7.1 | 3.2 | 0.81 | 4.3 |
| 18 | █ Tungoo | 7 | 4 | 0.78 | 3.9 |
| Rainfall trial total (mm) | 467mm |
|---|---|
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 374mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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