| Researcher(s) |
Damian Jones |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Contributor | Irrigated Cropping Council |
| Trial location(s) |
, NSW
|
| Related trials |
To evaluate several strategies to achieve high yielding irrigated durum wheat under overhead spray irrigation
DR1 quality can be achieved under irrigated conditions, but N supply must meet crop requirement to do so
| Lead research organisation |
Irrigated Cropping Council |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation |
Irrigated Cropping Council |
| Trial funding source | GRDC ICF00012 |
| Related program |
GRDC Southern Irrigated Cereal and Canola Varieties Achieving Target Yields |
| Acknowledgments |
Michael Gorey (co-operator) |
| Other trial partners | Moulamein Cropping Group |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
|
| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | 175 plants/m2 |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
John Shearer tyned seeder, 175 mm row spacing, Baker boots |
| Sow date | 1 June 2017 |
| Harvest date | 15 December 2017 December 15th |
| Plot size | 15m x 1.42m |
| Plot replication | 3 |
| Fertiliser |
125 kg DAP/ha at sowing Topdressed 40 kg N/ha 9/8 40 kg N/ha 31/8 50 kg N/ha 29/9 |
| Herbicide |
Achieve 500 g/ha 21/7 (poor control) |
| Seed treatment | Guacho 600 120 ml/100 kg |
| Other trial notes |
Grass control was inadequate due to Group A resistance |
| # | Variety |
Treatment 1
|
Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | █ DBA Aurora | █ Control N strategy | 12.3 | 5.61 |
| 2 | █ DBA Aurora | █ Trace elements | 11.5 | 5.12 |
| 3 | █ DBA Aurora | █ High N | 13.8 | 5.44 |
| 4 | █ DBA Aurora | █ Extra PGR Z39 | 13 | 5.61 |
| 5 | █ DBA Aurora | █ Nitroguard | 11.2 | 5.72 |
| 6 | █ DBA Aurora | █ Late N | 13.6 | 5.95 |
| 7 | █ DBA Aurora | █ 0 topdressed N | 8.5 | 5.48 |
| 8 | █ DBA Aurora | █ Bread wheat comparison | 12 | 5.66 |
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