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| Researcher(s) |
Luke Gaynor (NSW DPI) Neroli Graham (NSW DPI) Tony Napier (NSW DPI) Cynthia Podmore (NSW DPI) Deb Slinger (NSW DPI) |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Contributor | Department of Primary Industries NSW |
| Trial location(s) |
Leeton, NSW
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| Further information | View external link |
The experiment at Leeton evaluated the effect of variety, time of sowing, plant population and their interactions on canola grain yield, grain quality (oil content) and crop growth (lodging and harvest index).
| Lead research organisation | N/A |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation | N/A |
| Trial funding source | GRDC DAN00198 |
| Trial funding source | DPI NSW |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
GRDC and NSW DPI jointly funded this research which is part of the ‘Southern irrigated cereal and canola varieties achieving target yields project’, DAN00198, 2014–17. The support of Daniel Johnston, Glenn Morris, Gabby Napier and Michael Hately for assistance with experiment management, field assessments and data collection is gratefully acknowledged. |
| Other trial partners | Not specified |
| Crop type | Oilseed: Canola |
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| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | 25 plants/m2 (low density) and 50 plants/m2 (high density) |
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| Sow date | 3 April and 27 April 2015 |
| Harvest date | 13 November and 16 November 2015 |
| Plot size | Not specified |
| Plot replication | Not specified |
| Fertiliser |
Nitrogen budget 100 kg N/ha pre-sowing; 100 kg N/ha topdressed; approximately 50 kg N/ha mineralised during growing season) |
| Other trial notes |
This research paper is an extract from the publication Southern NSW Research Results 2015, available at |
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Treatment 1
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Lodging (0-9) | Oil (%) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Average harvest index (value) |
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| 1 | █ 1 | 3.7 | 43.1 | 3.04 | 0.2 |
| 2 | █ 2 | 2.8 | 43 | 3.33 | 0.23 |
| 3 | █ 3 | 1.5 | 44 | 3.38 | 0.24 |
| 4 | █ 4 | 2.3 | 44.8 | 3.62 | 0.3 |
| 5 | █ 5 | 1.6 | 44.9 | 3.65 | 0.21 |
| 6 | █ 6 | 0.8 | 43.6 | 3.72 | 0.29 |
| 7 | █ 7 | 0.2 | 45.1 | 3.74 | 0.23 |
| 8 | █ 8 | 1.6 | 45.2 | 3.85 | 0.28 |
| 9 | █ 9 | 0.3 | 45.5 | 3.93 | 0.24 |
| 10 | █ 10 | 1.5 | 44.3 | 4 | 0.26 |
| 11 | █ 11 | 0.1 | 43.1 | 4 | 0.26 |
| 12 | █ 12 | 1.4 | 44.6 | 4.14 | 0.27 |
| 13 | █ 1314 | 0.5 | 45.5 | 4.24 | 0.26 |
| 14 | █ 15 | 1.7 | 44.9 | 4.59 | 0.29 |
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Treatment 1
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Grain yield (t/ha) | Lodging (0-9) | Average harvest index (value) | Grain yield (t/ha) | Lodging (0-9) | Harvest index (value) |
| 1 | █ 1 | 2.94 | 2.9 | 0.2 | 3.14 | 4.5 | 0.2 |
| 1 | █ 2 | 3.92 | 0.2 | 0.25 | 4.07 | 0 | 0.27 |
| 2 | █ 3 | 3.68 | 1.6 | 0.28 | 3.56 | 2.9 | 0.31 |
| 2 | █ 4 | 4.67 | 1.2 | 0.29 | 4.51 | 2.2 | 0.3 |
| 3 | █ 5 | 4.05 | 1.6 | 0.26 | 3.87 | 1.3 | 0.27 |
| 3 | █ 6 | 4 | 0.9 | 0.28 | 3.43 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
| 4 | █ 7 | 4.04 | 1.8 | 0.27 | 4.23 | 1.1 | 0.28 |
| 4 | █ 8 | 4.11 | 0.7 | 0.26 | 4.38 | 0.2 | 0.26 |
| 5 | █ 9 | 4.23 | 0.3 | 0.26 | 3.62 | 0.3 | 0.23 |
| 5 | █ 10 | 3.42 | 1.9 | 0,19 | 3.87 | 1.2 | 0.23 |
| 6 | █ 11 | 3.31 | 1.8 | 0.23 | 3.35 | 3.9 | 0.24 |
| 6 | █ 12 | 3.68 | 1.7 | 0.28 | 4.02 | 1.6 | 0.29 |
| 7 | █ 13 | 4.01 | 0.6 | 0.24 | 3.46 | 0 | 0.22 |
| 7 | █ 14 | 3.23 | 1.8 | 0.22 | 3.54 | 1.1 | 0.25 |
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