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Canola phenology

2018

Research organisaton
Funding source
Birchip Cropping Group
<abbr title='Grains Research and Development Corporation'>GRDC</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) Cameron Taylor (BCG)
Year(s) 2018
Contributor Birchip Cropping Group
Trial location(s) Longerenong, VIC
Further information View external link
Canola phenology locations
Aims

To determine the optimum management of canola plant type and phenology when sown earlier than traditional sowing time (25 April). To assess the response of canola varieties to high and low application rates of N on grain yield and grain quality.

Key messages

• Selecting mid-fast hybrid varieties with flexible phenology in the Wimmera is a good risk management option, which also has yield potential when seasonal conditions are favourable.
• Fast hybrids have performed well but avoid the temptation to plant these early if an early break eventuates.
• Selecting slow developing varieties comes with added risk of requiring a germinating rain in the first week of April or earlier.
• The best return on investment in nitrogen comes with application to hybrids that flower at the optimum time for the environment.

Lead research organisation Birchip Cropping Group
Host research organisation N/A
Trial funding source GRDC CSP00187
Related program Optimised Canola Profitability Project
Acknowledgments

This research was funded by the GRDC as part of the ‘Optimised Canola Profitability’ project (CSP00187) with project partners NSW Department of Primary Industries, CSIRO and SARDI.
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop type Oilseed: Canola
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop: Variety
  • Fertiliser: Rate
  • Sowing: Timing
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Randomised

Longerenong 2018

Sow rate or Target density 50 plants/m²
Sowing machinery

Knife points, press wheels, 30cm row spacing
Sow date 13 April 2018
Harvest date 14 March 2019
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Psuedoreplication Not specified
Fertiliser

Granulock® Supreme Z + Impact® @ 90kg/ha at sowing
For in crop treatments refer to Table 1
Herbicide

Herbicide, insecticide and fungicide managed to best practice.
Insecticide

Herbicide, insecticide and fungicide managed to best practice.
Fungicide

Herbicide, insecticide and fungicide managed to best practice.
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Trial results Table 1

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Grain yield (t/ha)
1 █ Diamond █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 1.04
2 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 0.64
3 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 0.89
4 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 0.51
5 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 0.76
6 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 0.83
7 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 0.61
8 █ Archer █ TOS1 (13 April) █ Low N 0.92
9 █ Diamond █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 1.21
10 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 0.97
11 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 1.46
12 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 0.51
13 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 1.24
14 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 0.62
15 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 0.27
16 █ Archer █ TOS1 (13 April) █ High N 0.68
17 █ Diamond █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.96
18 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.85
19 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.91
20 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.86
21 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.83
22 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.64
23 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.59
24 █ Archer █ TOS2 (8 May) █ Low N 0.69
25 █ Diamond █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 1.15
26 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 0.42
27 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 1.19
28 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 0.47
29 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 0.35
30 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 0.31
31 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 0.16
32 █ Archer █ TOS2 (8 May) █ High N 0.55

Grain yield t/ha

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Trial results Table 2

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Oil (%)
1 █ Diamond █ TOS1 █ Low rate 40.9
2 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS1 █ Low rate 37.2
3 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS1 █ Low rate 40.7
4 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS1 █ Low rate 41
5 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS1 █ Low rate 40.2
6 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS1 █ Low rate 38.9
7 █ Archer █ TOS1 █ Low rate 38.3
8 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS1 █ Low rate 40.1
9 █ Diamond █ TOS2 █ High rate 34.4
10 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS2 █ High rate 36.5
11 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS2 █ High rate 37.7
12 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS2 █ High rate 36.3
13 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS2 █ High rate 36.6
14 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS2 █ High rate 36.2
15 █ Archer █ TOS2 █ High rate 35.9
16 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS2 █ High rate 34.5
17 █ Diamond █ TOS1 █ Low rate 38.9
18 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS1 █ Low rate 39.9
19 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS1 █ Low rate 41.2
20 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS1 █ Low rate 38.9
21 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS1 █ Low rate 39.7
22 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS1 █ Low rate 40.7
23 █ Archer █ TOS1 █ Low rate 38.6
24 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS1 █ Low rate 38.6
25 █ Diamond █ TOS2 █ High rate 33.1
26 █ ATR Stingray █ TOS2 █ High rate 35.8
27 █ ATR Bonito █ TOS2 █ High rate 39
28 █ 44Y90 CL █ TOS2 █ High rate 36.8
29 █ 45Y91 CL █ TOS2 █ High rate 38.5
30 █ 45Y25 RR █ TOS2 █ High rate 37.2
31 █ Archer █ TOS2 █ High rate 36.8
32 █ ATR Wahoo █ TOS2 █ High rate 33.5

Oil %

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Trial results Table 3

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Treatment 2
Treatment 3
Treatment 4
Percentage of site mean (%)
1 █ Diamond █ Hybrid █ Fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 1 108
2 █ ATR Stingray █ Open pollinated █ Fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 1 92
3 █ 44Y90 CL █ Hybrid █ Mid-fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 1 104
4 █ ATR Bonito █ Open pollinated █ Mid-fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 1 90
5 █ 45Y25 RR █ Hybrid █ Mid-slow █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 1 108
6 █ ATR Wahoo █ Open pollinated █ Mid-slow █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 1 99
7 █ Archer █ Hybrid █ Slow █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 1 101
8 █ Diamond █ Hybrid █ Fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 2 106
9 █ ATR Stingray █ Open pollinated █ Fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 2 95
10 █ 44Y90 CL █ Hybrid █ Mid-fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 2 107
11 █ ATR Bonito █ Open pollinated █ Mid-fast █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 2 91
12 █ 45Y25 RR █ Hybrid █ Mid-slow █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 2 106
13 █ ATR Wahoo █ Open pollinated █ Mid-slow █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 2 91
14 █ Archer █ Hybrid █ Slow █ 2017 (3.82) █ TOS 2 97
15 █ Diamond █ Hybrid █ Fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 1 150
16 █ ATR Stingray █ Open pollinated █ Fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 1 107
17 █ 44Y90 CL █ Hybrid █ Mid-fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 1 161
18 █ ATR Bonito █ Open pollinated █ Mid-fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 1 68
19 █ 45Y25 RR █ Hybrid █ Mid-slow █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 1 92
20 █ ATR Wahoo █ Open pollinated █ Mid-slow █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 1 59
21 █ Archer █ Hybrid █ Slow █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 1 105
22 █ Diamond █ Hybrid █ Fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 2 141
23 █ ATR Stingray █ Open pollinated █ Fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 2 84
24 █ 44Y90 CL █ Hybrid █ Mid-fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 2 140
25 █ ATR Bonito █ Open pollinated █ Mid-fast █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 2 88
26 █ 45Y25 RR █ Hybrid █ Mid-slow █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 2 59
27 █ ATR Wahoo █ Open pollinated █ Mid-slow █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 2 49
28 █ Archer █ Hybrid █ Slow █ 2018 (0.75) █ TOS 2 82
29 █ Diamond █ Hybrid █ Fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 1 129
30 █ ATR Stingray █ Open pollinated █ Fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 1 99
31 █ 44Y90 CL █ Hybrid █ Mid-fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 1 132
32 █ ATR Bonito █ Open pollinated █ Mid-fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 1 79
33 █ 45Y25 RR █ Hybrid █ Mid-slow █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 1 100
34 █ ATR Wahoo █ Open pollinated █ Mid-slow █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 1 79
35 █ Archer █ Hybrid █ Slow █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 1 103
36 █ Diamond █ Hybrid █ Fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 2 123
37 █ ATR Stingray █ Open pollinated █ Fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 2 89
38 █ 44Y90 CL █ Hybrid █ Mid-fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 2 123
39 █ ATR Bonito █ Open pollinated █ Mid-fast █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 2 90
40 █ 45Y25 RR █ Hybrid █ Mid-slow █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 2 83
41 █ ATR Wahoo █ Open pollinated █ Mid-slow █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 2 70
42 █ Archer █ Hybrid █ Slow █ Average (2.29) █ TOS 2 90

Percentage of site mean %

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Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Site Depth Type pH EC P K N A OC CAT
Longerenong, VIC 0 - 10cm 8.30 0.24 33.00
Longerenong, VIC 10 - 40cm 8.70 0.22 20.00
Longerenong, VIC 40 - 70cm 9.10 0.37 8.00
Longerenong, VIC 70 - 100cm 8.20 2.04 8.00
Soil conditions
Trial site Soil texture
Longerenong, VIC Clay
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Longerenong, VIC Vertosol
Soil Moisture Source: BOM/ANU
Average amount of water stored in the soil profile during the year, estimated by the OzWALD model-data fusion system.
Year Longerenong VIC
2018 205.3mm
2017 227.0mm
2016 239.6mm
2015 204.0mm
2014 201.7mm
2013 203.6mm
2012 211.3mm
2011 254.4mm
2010 276.9mm
2009 251.0mm
2008 224.6mm
2007 307.5mm
2006 345.5mm
2005 401.2mm
2004 427.9mm
2003 526.2mm
2002 537.0mm
2001 607.1mm
2000 677.5mm
National soil grid Source: CSIRO/TERN
NOTE: National Soil Grid data is aggregated information for background information on the wider area
Actual soil values can vary significantly in a small area and the trial soil tests are the most relevant data where available

Soil properties

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Climate

Longerenong VIC 2018

Observed climate information

Rainfall trial total (mm) 284mm
Rainfall trial gsr (mm) 187mm

Derived climate information

Longerenong VIC

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Some data on this site is sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology

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.

Trial report and links

2018 trial report



Trial last modified: 02-12-2019 13:42pm AEST