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Effect of sowing date on grain yield, water use efficiency and grain quality of wheat - Canowindra 2015

2015

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Research organisation
Funding sources
Department of Primary Industries NSW
<abbr title='Grains Research and Development Corporation'>GRDC</abbr> <abbr title='Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales)'>DPI NSW</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) Adam Coleman (NSW DPI)
Colin McMaster (NSW DPI)
Year(s) 2015
Contributor Department of Primary Industries NSW
Trial location(s) Conawindra, NSW
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Effect of sowing date on grain yield, water use efficiency and grain quality of wheat - Canowindra 2015 locations
Aims

To evaluate the performance of recently released wheat varieties in response to various times of sowing.

Key messages
  • The variety Beckom sown on 5 May yielded highest (5.67 t/ha).
  • Grain yield reductions up to 4t/ha occured when varieties were not sown at the correct time (due to flowering throughout August - September frost events).
  • Greatest yield losses occured when quick maturing varieties were sown early rather than longer season varieties sown late.
  • Winter wheats and very long springs spring wheats performed better in 2015 than 2014, presumably due to less aphid pressure (BYDV) in 2015. 
  • Grain yield was maximised when winter wheats were sown early (mid-April) or mid to mid-fast varieties were sown in teh first week of May. If spring conditions had been favourable, the winter whaets may have outperformed the mid to mid-fast varities when sown in late May.
  • Screening increased as sowing was delayed. 
Lead research organisation N/A
Host research organisation N/A
Trial funding source GRDC DAN00167
Trial funding source DPI NSW
Related program N/A
Acknowledgments

This experiment is part of the project 'Variety Specific Agronomy Package', DAN00167, 2013-17, jointly funded by GRDC and NSW DPI.

Thanks to Rob Atkinson and the team from Hassad Australia - Gindurra' for hosting the trial in 2015, and Rob Dunkley and Justin Paul for technical assistance. 
Other trial partners Not specified
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Method

Crop type Cereal (Grain): Wheat
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop : Variety
  • Sowing : Timing
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Replicated

Conawindra 2015

Sow date varied - see report
Harvest date 24 November 2015
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Fertiliser

20 kg P/ha banded at sowing
80 kg N/ha applied at 2–3 leaf stage
Fungicide

Flutriafol-treated fertiliser (400 mL/ha)
Prosaro® applied at flag leaf emergence (GS39)
Other trial notes

This research paper is an extract from the publication Southern NSW Research Results 2015, available at
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/broadacre-crops/guides/publications/southern-nsw-research-results
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Trial results Grain yield and rank of 36 wheat varieties sown at three sowing dates

@T1: 17 April @T2: 5 May @T3: 25 May
# Variety
 Grain yield (t/ha) Grain yield (t/ha) Grain yield (t/ha)
1 █ EGA_Wedgetail 5.52 4.82 3.31
1 █ EGA_Wedgetail 5.54 4.66 3.85
1 █ EGA_Wedgetail 5.19 4.41 3.53
2 █ LPB11-0140 5.41 4.65 3.49
2 █ LPB11-0140 5.06 4.7 2.85
2 █ LPB11-0140 4.78 4.55 4.02
3 █ Naparoo 3.72 5.42 3.34
3 █ Naparoo 4.51 5 3.74
3 █ Naparoo 4.12 5.12 3.61
4 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 4.36 4.72 3.61
4 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 1.93 4.68 4.21
4 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 3.05 5.09 4.26
5 █ Sunlamb 1.41 5.05 3.89
5 █ Sunlamb 2.19 5.29 4.45
5 █ Sunlamb 2.81 4.77 3.79
6 █ Bolac 4.22 4.91 3.54
6 █ Bolac 3.06 5.61 4.39
6 █ Bolac 2.4 5.22 4.3
7 █ HRZ08-0062 2.14 4.95 4.45
7 █ HRZ08-0062 2.87 4.95 4.24
7 █ HRZ08-0062 1.33 5.31 4.32
8 █ Kiora 2.22 4.77 3.94
8 █ Kiora 2.67 5.03 4.27
8 █ Kiora 2.79 4.86 3.95
9 █ Lancer 2.83 4.98 4.36
9 █ Lancer 1.52 5.67 4.54
9 █ Lancer 1.55 4.94 3.56
10 █ Suntime 0.75 4.71 4.81
10 █ Suntime 1.68 3.76 3.8
10 █ Suntime 1.64 3.88 3.94
11 █ Cosmick 0.58 4.05 4.2
11 █ Cosmick 0.9 4.35 4.51
11 █ Cosmick 0.81 4.45 4.68
12 █ EGA_Gregory 0.77 3.58 3.93
12 █ EGA_Gregory 0.87 3.89 3.77
12 █ EGA_Gregory 1.42 4.86 4.14
13 █ Gauntlet
13 █ Gauntlet
13 █ Gauntlet
14 █ Flanker
14 █ Flanker
14 █ Flanker
15 █ Mitch
15 █ Mitch
15 █ Mitch
16 █ Sunvale
16 █ Sunvale
16 █ Sunvale
17 █ Trojan
17 █ Trojan
17 █ Trojan
18 █ Viking
18 █ Viking
18 █ Viking
19 █ Elmore Cl Plus
19 █ Elmore Cl Plus
19 █ Elmore Cl Plus
20 █ Harper
20 █ Harper
20 █ Harper
21 █ HRZ03-0056
21 █ HRZ03-0056
21 █ HRZ03-0056
22 █ Janz
22 █ Janz
22 █ Janz
23 █ LPB09-0358
23 █ LPB09-0358
23 █ LPB09-0358
24 █ Sunguard
24 █ Sunguard
24 █ Sunguard
25 █ Suntop
25 █ Suntop
25 █ Suntop
26 █ Beckom
26 █ Beckom
26 █ Beckom
27 █ Condo
27 █ Condo
27 █ Condo
28 █ Corack
28 █ Corack
28 █ Corack
29 █ Dart
29 █ Dart
29 █ Dart
30 █ Emu Rock
30 █ Emu Rock
30 █ Emu Rock
31 █ Livingston
31 █ Livingston
31 █ Livingston
32 █ LPB10-0018
32 █ LPB10-0018
32 █ LPB10-0018
33 █ Mace
33 █ Mace
33 █ Mace
34 █ Merlin
34 █ Merlin
34 █ Merlin
35 █ Spitfire
35 █ Spitfire
35 █ Spitfire
36 █ Sunmate
36 █ Sunmate
36 █ Sunmate

Grain yield t/ha

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Trial results Grain quality results including protein (%), test weight (kg/hL) and screenings (%) of 36 wheat varieties sown at three sowing dates

# Variety
 Protein (%) Test weight (kg/hL)
1 █ EGA_Wedgetail 13.1 74.6
2 █ LPB11-0140 15.3 77.8
3 █ Naparoo 16 77.6
4 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 13.2 74.8
5 █ Sunlamb 16 79.4
6 █ Bolac 11.7 76.5
7 █ HRZ08-0062 13.1 77.9
8 █ Kiora 12.6 71.2
9 █ Lancer 14.7 79.6
10 █ Suntime 16.1 77.3
11 █ Cosmick 14.7 78.5
12 █ EGA_Gregory 13.9 77.1
13 █ Gauntlet 14.9 76.3
14 █ Flanker 13.3 77.3
15 █ Mitch 14 78.9
16 █ Sunvale 13.1 78.3
17 █ Trojan 13.5 76.2
18 █ Viking 16.4 76.1
19 █ Elmore Cl Plus 14.7 77.3
20 █ Harper 15.4 77.6
21 █ HRZ03-0056 14.1 78.2
22 █ Janz 11.9 77.4
23 █ LPB09-0358 15.8 76.6
24 █ Sunguard 17 77.2
25 █ Suntop 13 75.7
26 █ Beckom 12.2 74.2
27 █ Condo 17.2 77.6
28 █ Corack 12.6 75.4
29 █ Dart 13.7 76.8
30 █ Emu Rock 14.6 76.8
31 █ Livingston 13.2 76.6
32 █ LPB10-0018 13.9 79.3
33 █ Mace 13.2 78.1
34 █ Merlin 14.3 77.9
35 █ Spitfire 14.1 79
36 █ Sunmate 11.7 71.2

Protein %

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Test weight kg/hL

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Trial results Grain quality results including protein (%), test weight (kg/hL) and screenings (%) of 36 wheat varieties sown at three sowing dates

@T1: 17 April @T2: 5 May @T3: 25 May
# Variety
 Protein (%) Screenings (%) Test weight (kg/hL) Protein (%) Screenings (%) Test weight (kg/hL) Protein (%) Screenings (%) Test weight (kg/hL)
1 █ Bolac 13.1 8.2 74.6 13 12 74.6 13.7 10.7 77.8
1 █ Bolac 15.3 7.2 77.8 12.6 8.1 77.2 12.9 7.4 76.9
1 █ Bolac 16 2 77.6 13.4 3.2 77.8 12.2 5.9 76
2 █ Condo 13.2 5.4 74.8 12.4 9.1 73.7 13.2 14 73.2
2 █ Condo 16 4.8 79.4 13.9 4.3 77.9 13.3 8.6 77.1
2 █ Condo 11.7 9.7 76.5 13.3 6.8 77.9 13.9 5.6 79.8
3 █ Corack 13.1 3.7 1 77.9 12.5 7.3 76.8 12.9 9 77.4
3 █ Corack 12.6 4.8 71.2 13.5 7.2 72.5 13.8 4.1 74.5
3 █ Corack 14.7 3.5 79.6 12.7 6.1 77 13.6 12.5 77.1
4 █ Cosmick 16.1 3.5 77.3 14.1 5.2 77.3 13.1 5.8 75.4
4 █ Cosmick 14.7 4.1 78.5 12.9 9 77.9 12.7 4.1 80.7
4 █ Cosmick 13.9 4.6 77.1 13.6 8.1 76.5 13.2 8.5 76
5 █ Dart 14.9 4 76.3 12.5 4.7 75.5 12.6 6.1 76.9
5 █ Dart 13.3 4.3 77.3 12.6 6.2 74.6 13.5 6.9 78.6
5 █ Dart 14 2.6 78.9 13 7.1 75.5 13.3 8.1 78.3
6 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 13.1 4.7 78.3 13.1 11.1 75 13.4 11.2 78.3
6 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 13.5 3.3 76.2 13 4.7 77.1 14.3 5.3 79.2
6 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 16.4 4.5 76.1 13.7 6.5 77 13.6 10.7 75.4
7 █ EGA_Gregory 15.4 4.2 77.3 12.8 4.5 75.8 12.8 7.5 75.7
7 █ EGA_Gregory 14.1 3.6 77.6 12.9 5.6 77.5 12.6 10.4 77
7 █ EGA_Gregory 11.9 3.7 78.2 12.2 7.9 76.8 12.7 10.8 77.8
8 █ EGA_Wedgetail 15.8 7.7 77.4 12.9 6 76.9 13.1 7.2 78.4
8 █ EGA_Wedgetail 17 2.6 76.6 12.8 4.1 77.2 11.9 7.2 76.3
8 █ EGA_Wedgetail 13 2.4 77.2 14.7 3.6 79.7 13.9 7.2 78.4
9 █ Elmore Cl Plus 12.2 4.1 75.7 11.9 6.6 73.7 12.7 9.4 75.8
9 █ Elmore Cl Plus 17.2 12 74.2 12.7 11.1 75.5 13.3 8.7 77.2
9 █ Elmore Cl Plus 13.7 4 77.6 14.8 3.9 80.2 13.6 5.3 79
10 █ Emu Rock 14.6 9.7 75.4 13.4 10.6 77.7 15.1 7.1 78.5
10 █ Emu Rock 13.2 5.9 76.8 12.4 6.7 76.2 13.1 8.1 76.5
10 █ Emu Rock 13.9 4.2 76.8 12.1 6.6 74.7 13.1 6.2 76.5
11 █ Gauntlet 13.2 7.4 75.8 12.6 9.5 76.4 13.2 7.2 79.5
11 █ Gauntlet 13.5 5.4 76.6 12.3 7.1 75.7 12.2 10.4 78.2
11 █ Gauntlet 13.9 3.5 79.3 13.6 7.3 76.9 14 8.5 78.4
12 █ Harper 13.2 3.7 78.1 12.3 4.7 76.9 13 7.3 78.8
12 █ Harper 14.3 3.7 77.9 11.9 6.4 74.8 12.7 12.8 75.3
12 █ Harper 14.1 3.7 79 12.5 9.4 76.3 12.8 11.5 79.8
13 █ HRZ03-0056
13 █ HRZ03-0056
13 █ HRZ03-0056
14 █ HRZ08-0062
14 █ HRZ08-0062
14 █ HRZ08-0062
15 █ Janz
15 █ Janz
15 █ Janz
16 █ Kiora
16 █ Kiora
16 █ Kiora
17 █ Lancer
17 █ Lancer
17 █ Lancer
18 █ Livingston
18 █ Livingston
18 █ Livingston
19 █ LPB09-0358
19 █ LPB09-0358
19 █ LPB09-0358
20 █ LPB10-0018
20 █ LPB10-0018
20 █ LPB10-0018
21 █ LPB10-2555
21 █ LPB10-2555
21 █ LPB10-2555
22 █ LPB11-0140
22 █ LPB11-0140
22 █ LPB11-0140
23 █ Mace
23 █ Mace
23 █ Mace
24 █ Merlin
24 █ Merlin
24 █ Merlin
25 █ Mitch
25 █ Mitch
25 █ Mitch
26 █ Naparoo
26 █ Naparoo
26 █ Naparoo
27 █ Spitfire
27 █ Spitfire
27 █ Spitfire
28 █ Sun512C
28 █ Sun512C
28 █ Sun512C
29 █ Sunguard
29 █ Sunguard
29 █ Sunguard
30 █ Sunmate
30 █ Sunmate
30 █ Sunmate
31 █ Suntime
31 █ Suntime
31 █ Suntime
32 █ Suntop
32 █ Suntop
32 █ Suntop
33 █ Sunvale
33 █ Sunvale
33 █ Sunvale
34 █ Trojan
34 █ Trojan
34 █ Trojan
35 █ V06008-14
35 █ V06008-14
35 █ V06008-14
36 █ Viking
36 █ Viking
36 █ Viking

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Trial site Soil texture
Conawindra, NSW Red chromosol
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Conawindra, NSW Kandosol
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.
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No observed climate data available for this trial.
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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.

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