| Researcher(s) |
Mark Klante (SARDI) Roy Latta (SARDI) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2009 |
| Contributor | SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre |
| Trial location(s) |
Minnipa, SA
|
To assess the role of annual medics as a break crop in a wheat-sheep mixed farming system, by measuring the biomass produced over the growing season followed by the retention of the pasture residue over the summer autumn period, then subsequently assessing the impact of the pasture in the following cereal phase in terms of yield and grain quality.
| Lead research organisation |
SARDI Minnipa Agricultural Centre |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC UA00117 |
| Related program |
Eyre Peninsula Farming Systems |
| Acknowledgments | N/A |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Pasture: Medic |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Demonstration |
| Trial design | Unreplicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | Actual: 200 plants/m2 |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Pasture cages. Regenerating medic pastures |
| Sow date | Not specified |
| Harvest date | Not specified |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Rainfall avg ann (mm) | 325mm |
|---|---|
| Rainfall avg gsr (mm) | 242mm |
| Rainfall trial total (mm) | 421mm |
| Rainfall trial gsr (mm) | 333mm |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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