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

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
 Screenings (%) Protein (%) Test weight (kg/hL) Protein (%) Test weight (kg/hL) Screenings (%) Screenings (%) Test weight (kg/hL) Protein (%)
1 █ Bolac 8.2 13.1 74.6 13 74.6 12 10.7 77.8 13.7
1 █ Bolac 7.2 15.3 77.8 12.6 77.2 8.1 7.4 76.9 12.9
1 █ Bolac 2 16 77.6 13.4 77.8 3.2 5.9 76 12.2
2 █ Condo 5.4 13.2 74.8 12.4 73.7 9.1 14 73.2 13.2
2 █ Condo 4.8 16 79.4 13.9 77.9 4.3 8.6 77.1 13.3
2 █ Condo 9.7 11.7 76.5 13.3 77.9 6.8 5.6 79.8 13.9
3 █ Corack 3.7 1 13.1 77.9 12.5 76.8 7.3 9 77.4 12.9
3 █ Corack 4.8 12.6 71.2 13.5 72.5 7.2 4.1 74.5 13.8
3 █ Corack 3.5 14.7 79.6 12.7 77 6.1 12.5 77.1 13.6
4 █ Cosmick 3.5 16.1 77.3 14.1 77.3 5.2 5.8 75.4 13.1
4 █ Cosmick 4.1 14.7 78.5 12.9 77.9 9 4.1 80.7 12.7
4 █ Cosmick 4.6 13.9 77.1 13.6 76.5 8.1 8.5 76 13.2
5 █ Dart 4 14.9 76.3 12.5 75.5 4.7 6.1 76.9 12.6
5 █ Dart 4.3 13.3 77.3 12.6 74.6 6.2 6.9 78.6 13.5
5 █ Dart 2.6 14 78.9 13 75.5 7.1 8.1 78.3 13.3
6 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 4.7 13.1 78.3 13.1 75 11.1 11.2 78.3 13.4
6 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 3.3 13.5 76.2 13 77.1 4.7 5.3 79.2 14.3
6 █ EGA_Eaglehawk 4.5 16.4 76.1 13.7 77 6.5 10.7 75.4 13.6
7 █ EGA_Gregory 4.2 15.4 77.3 12.8 75.8 4.5 7.5 75.7 12.8
7 █ EGA_Gregory 3.6 14.1 77.6 12.9 77.5 5.6 10.4 77 12.6
7 █ EGA_Gregory 3.7 11.9 78.2 12.2 76.8 7.9 10.8 77.8 12.7
8 █ EGA_Wedgetail 7.7 15.8 77.4 12.9 76.9 6 7.2 78.4 13.1
8 █ EGA_Wedgetail 2.6 17 76.6 12.8 77.2 4.1 7.2 76.3 11.9
8 █ EGA_Wedgetail 2.4 13 77.2 14.7 79.7 3.6 7.2 78.4 13.9
9 █ Elmore Cl Plus 4.1 12.2 75.7 11.9 73.7 6.6 9.4 75.8 12.7
9 █ Elmore Cl Plus 12 17.2 74.2 12.7 75.5 11.1 8.7 77.2 13.3
9 █ Elmore Cl Plus 4 13.7 77.6 14.8 80.2 3.9 5.3 79 13.6
10 █ Emu Rock 9.7 14.6 75.4 13.4 77.7 10.6 7.1 78.5 15.1
10 █ Emu Rock 5.9 13.2 76.8 12.4 76.2 6.7 8.1 76.5 13.1
10 █ Emu Rock 4.2 13.9 76.8 12.1 74.7 6.6 6.2 76.5 13.1
11 █ Gauntlet 7.4 13.2 75.8 12.6 76.4 9.5 7.2 79.5 13.2
11 █ Gauntlet 5.4 13.5 76.6 12.3 75.7 7.1 10.4 78.2 12.2
11 █ Gauntlet 3.5 13.9 79.3 13.6 76.9 7.3 8.5 78.4 14
12 █ Harper 3.7 13.2 78.1 12.3 76.9 4.7 7.3 78.8 13
12 █ Harper 3.7 14.3 77.9 11.9 74.8 6.4 12.8 75.3 12.7
12 █ Harper 3.7 14.1 79 12.5 76.3 9.4 11.5 79.8 12.8
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

Protein %

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Screenings %

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Test weight kg/hL

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Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Not specified
Soil conditions
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.
Year Conawindra NSW
2015 53.1mm
2014 43.0mm
2013 147.5mm
2012 260.1mm
2011 234.0mm
2010 152.1mm
2009 27.4mm
2008 44.9mm
2007 50.1mm
2006 25.0mm
2005 59.8mm
2004 33.2mm
2003 22.1mm
2002 43.7mm
2001 118.7mm
2000 210.2mm
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

Derived climate information

No observed climate data available for this trial.
Derived climate data is determined from trial site location and national weather sources.

Conawindra NSW

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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.

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