Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development WA
Trial location(s)
South Burracoppin, WA
Aims
To evaluate the rotational benefit of different sequences of pulses and canola after soil amelioration when transitioning back into cereal cropping following amelioration.
Key messages
Crop establishment, biomass, yield and harvest index of wheat was largely unaffected by break crop rotation from the previous two seasons.
Wheat yield was above district average for both the light and heavy soil site which was not expected on the average decile 4 rainfall.
Grain produced from wheat following a pulse-canola rotation had higher protein content compared to the canola-chickpea rotation.
Lead research organisation
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development WA
Host research organisation
N/A
Trial funding source
GRDC DAW00256
Trial funding source
DPIRD WA FFPJP13
Related program
Regional Research Agronomy
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Bob French and George Mwenda for their work on the trial as well as the Merredin Research Support Unit for their assistance. Lastly, thankyou also to Tony Murfit and Warrakiri Farm for hosting the trial.
Thanks to GRDC and DPIRD for co-investment in the ‘Building capacity in crop protection and crop production agronomy research and development in Western Australia’ project (DAW00256/DAW1512-001RTX)
Trial source data and summary not available Check the trial
report PDF for trial results.
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.
South Burracoppin WA
NOTE: Exact trial site locality unknown - Climate data may not be accurate
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.
