To investigate the production, management and profitability of three different pulse crops.
Key messages
Field peas yielded significantly higher then both lupins and vetch.
Field peas and undersown barley had significantly higher gross margins than lupin and vetch.
In terms of gross margins there was no significant difference between field peas/undersown barley, undersown barley/vetch and lupins/vetch.
When choosing to grow a pulse crop the following management issues are critical: time of sowing, paddock selection, species selection and disease and pest management.
Lead research organisation
Central West Farming Systems
Host research organisation
N/A
Related program
N/A
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank the TOP Woodlands Ag Bureau for allowing the Tottenham Regional Site to operate in association with them during 2003. We would also like to thank Keith Greig for providing his time, labor and advise with the trial, it was greatly appreciated. Also thank you to Rob Sanderson and Daryl Reardon for assisting with harvesting and soil sampling. Thank you also goes to Nathan Border for his help with writing
this paper.
Trial source data and summary not available Check the trial
report PDF for trial results.
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.
Tottenham NSW
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.
