| Researcher(s) |
Bill Davoren (CSIRO Agriculture ) Vadakattu Gupta (CSIRO Agriculture) Rick Llewellyn (CSIRO Agriculture) Therese McBeath (CSIRO Agriculture) Willie Shoobridge (CSIRO Agriculture ) |
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| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Contributor | Mallee Sustainable Farming Inc. |
| Trial location(s) |
Karoonda, SA
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To test on-row or inter-row seeding with and without a pre-emergent herbicide package of trifluralin + metribuzin
| Lead research organisation |
Mallee Sustainable Farming Inc. |
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| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC MSF00003 |
| Trial funding source | MSF |
| Related program |
Maintaining profitable farming systems with retained stubble |
| Acknowledgments |
We thank Loller Partners (Karoonda) for hosting the field site and additional technical input from Damian Mowat, Jeff Braun and Michael Moodie. This research is funded by GRDC and CSIRO Agriculture and Food (project MSF00003). |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Cereal (Grain): Wheat |
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| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | Scepter wheat at 70 kg/ha | |||||||||||||||
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| Sowing machinery |
dual shoot narrrow point with 28cm row spacing |
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| Sow date | 8 May 2017 | |||||||||||||||
| Harvest date | Not specified | |||||||||||||||
| Plot size | Not specified | |||||||||||||||
| Plot replication | Not specified | |||||||||||||||
| Fertiliser |
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| Herbicide |
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| Other trial notes |
Peer Review: Lynne Macdonald |
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Treatment 1
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Protein (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Brome grass density (plants/m2) | Establishment plants (plants/m2) | Establishment plants (plants/m2) |
| 1 | █ Minus pre-em | 8.44 | 1.74 | 31 | 55 | 91 |
| 1 | █ Plus pre-em | 8.91 | 1.91 | 15 | 56 | 66 |
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| 2 | █ On-row | 8.74 | 1.99 | 15 | 66 | 89 |
| 2 | █ Inter-row | 8.61 | 1.66 | 31 | 44 | 68 |
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| Rainfall avg ann (mm) | 337mm |
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| Rainfall avg gsr (mm) | 237mm |
| Rainfall trial total (mm) | 399mm |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 236mm |
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
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