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Researcher(s) | N/A |
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Year(s) | 2009 - 2012 |
Contributor | Perennial Pasture Systems |
Trial location(s) |
Mooney's Gap, VIC
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Demonstrate best practice phalaris establishment and management at the PPS/EverGraze site at Mooneys Gap which should provide information to producers to give them confidence to increase phalaris use.
Lead research organisation |
Perennial Pasture Systems |
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Host research organisation | N/A |
Trial funding source | Caring for our Country |
Trial funding source | DEPIVic |
Trial funding source | CHAF |
Related program |
EverGraze |
Acknowledgments |
PPS wishes to acknowledge the following people for their assistance throughout the project:
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Other trial partners | Not specified |
Crop type | Pasture: Mixed species |
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Treatment type(s) |
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Trial type | |
Trial design |
Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
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Sowing machinery | Not specified |
Sow date | Not specified |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Psuedoreplication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Insecticide | Not specified |
Soil amelioration | Not specified |
Sow rate or Target density | 2 kg/ha |
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Sowing machinery |
The paddock was direct drilled with a Semeato disc seeder by Rinaldi Contracting Carisbrook Vic. The machine had only recently been imported from Brazil and did an excellent job sowing into the degraded pasture paddock. |
Sow date | 18 May 2009 |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Psuedoreplication | Not specified |
Fertiliser |
100 kg/ha MAP at sowing |
Herbicide |
PRE SOWING WEED CONTROL – 1.2 l/ha roundup powermax™ + 50 ml/ha Hammer™ |
Insecticide |
RLEM CONTROL – 16/6/09 -320 ml/ha Alphasip™ |
Soil amelioration |
PRE SOWING – 2.5 t/ha lime, 0.5 t/ha gypsum |
Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
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Sowing machinery | Not specified |
Sow date | Not specified |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Psuedoreplication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Insecticide | Not specified |
Soil amelioration | Not specified |
Sow rate or Target density | Not specified |
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Sowing machinery | Not specified |
Sow date | Not specified |
Harvest date | Not specified |
Plot size | Not specified |
Plot replication | Not specified |
Psuedoreplication | Not specified |
Fertiliser | Not specified |
Herbicide | Not specified |
Insecticide | Not specified |
Soil amelioration | Not specified |
# |
Treatment 1
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Dry sheep equivalent (dse/ha) |
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1 | █ Phalaris | 19.2 |
2 | █ Control - brome, silver & onion grass | 9 |
# |
Treatment 1
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Dry sheep equivalent (dse/ha) |
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1 | █ Phalaris | 19.2 |
2 | █ Control - brome, silver & onion grass | 9 |
# |
Treatment 1
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Dry sheep equivalent (dse/ha) |
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1 | █ Phalaris | 19.2 |
2 | █ Control - brome, silver & onion grass | 9 |
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.