To evaluate the effects of break crop species on the yield of subsequent wheat crop.
Key messages
The grain yield of wheat sown after pulses were 300 kg/ha higher on average compared to wheat sown after canola. The yield gap between the canola-wheat rotation and canola-pulse rotation was a result of reduced soil nitrogen levels following harvest of the break crop phase in 2018.
Lead research organisation
Southern Pulse Agronomy
Host research organisation
N/A
Related program
N/A
Acknowledgments
The research undertaken as part of the GRDC-funded Southern Pulse Agronomy project is made possible by the significant contributions of growers through both trial cooperation and the support of the GRDC and the authors would like to thank them for their continued support. The continued assistance in trial management from SARDI Agronomy groups at Clare, Minnipa, Struan and Port Lincoln is gratefully acknowledged and appreciated. The authors would also like to gratefully acknowledge SARDI Plant Pathology and Soil Biology groups for their scientific input and assistance, as well as advisors and grower groups involved in the project.
Other trial partners
Not specified
Method
Crop type
Oilseed: Canola
Treatment type(s)
Crop : Type
Crop : Variety
Trial type
Trial design
Warnertown 2019
Sow date
Unknown
Harvest date
Unknown
Plot size
Not specified
Plot replication
Not specified
Warnertown 2019
Sow date
Not specified
Harvest date
Not specified
Plot size
Not specified
Plot replication
Not specified
Trial source data and summary not available Check the trial
report PDF for trial results.
Climate
Warnertown SA 2019
Observed climate information
Rainfall trial total (mm)
216mm
Rainfall trial gsr (mm)
193mm
Derived climate information
Warnertown SA
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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