| Researcher(s) |
Felicity Pritchard Ashley Wallace |
|---|---|
| Contact email | ashley.wallace@agriculture.vic.gov.au |
| Contact phone | 0429 935 400 |
| Year(s) | 2024 - 2025 |
| Contributor | Agriculture Victoria |
| Trial location(s) |
Douglas, VIC
Minyip, VIC |
| Lead research organisation |
Agriculture Victoria |
|---|---|
| Host research organisation |
Agriculture Victoria |
| Trial funding source | GRDC DJP2204-006RTX |
| Trial funding source | AgVic |
| Related program | N/A |
| Acknowledgments |
Research supported by GRDC and Agriculture Victoria |
| Other trial partners | Wimmera Catchment Management Authority |
| Crop type | Oilseed: Canola |
|---|---|
| Treatment type(s) |
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| Trial type | Experimental |
| Trial design | Replicated |
| Sow rate or Target density | 50 pl/m2 |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Single disc seeder |
| Sow date | 11 May 2024 |
| Harvest date | Unknown |
| Trial design method | RCBD Randomised Complete Block Design |
| Total plots | 24 |
| Plot size | 10m x 1.5m |
| Plot replication | 3 |
| Plot randomisation | N |
| Fertiliser |
Variable according to treatment (range 80-120 kg/ha MAP +2.5% Zn with variable placement; with seed, below seed, surface and split) |
| Herbicide |
Glyphosate and Propyzamide pre-sowing, glyphosate, glufosinate, quizalofop ethyl and clopyralid planned post-emergent |
| Insecticide |
Chlorpyrifos post-emergent |
| Fungicide |
Fludioxonil and pydiflumetofen |
| Pesticide |
Slug, snail and mouse bait |
| Seed treatment | Poncho® Plus and ILeVO |
| Sow rate or Target density | 40 pl/m2 |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
Tyne seeder with twin-shoot seed and fertiliser boots that could separate seed and fertiliser more reliably |
| Sow date | 14 May 2025 |
| Harvest date | Unknown |
| Trial design method | RCBD Randomised Complete Block Design |
| Total plots | 24 |
| Plot size | 10m x 1.5m |
| Plot replication | 3 |
| Plot randomisation | Y |
| Fertiliser |
Variable according to treatment (range 80-120 kg/ha MAP +2.5% Zn with variable placement; with seed, below seed, surface and split) |
| Herbicide |
Glyphosate and Propyzamide pre-sowing, glyphosate, glufosinate, quizalofop ethyl and clopyralid planned post-emergent |
| Insecticide |
Chlorpyrifos post-emergent |
| Fungicide |
Fludioxonil and pydiflumetofen |
| Pesticide |
Slug, snail and mouse bait |
| Seed treatment | Poncho® Plus and ILeVO |
| Sow rate or Target density | 40 pl/m2 |
|---|---|
| Sowing machinery |
A tyne seeder with twin-shoot seed and fertiliser boots that could separate seed and fertiliser more reliably |
| Sow date | 29 May 2025 |
| Harvest date | Unknown |
| Trial design method | RCBD Randomised Complete Block Design |
| Total plots | 24 |
| Plot size | 10m x 1.5m |
| Plot replication | 3 |
| Plot randomisation | Y |
| Fertiliser |
Variable according to treatment (range 80-120 kg/ha MAP +2.5% Zn with variable placement; with seed, below seed, surface and split) |
| Herbicide |
Glyphosate and Propyzamide pre-sowing, glyphosate, glufosinate, quizalofop ethyl and clopyralid planned post-emergent |
| Insecticide |
Chlorpyrifos post-emergent |
| Fungicide |
Fludioxonil and pydiflumetofen |
| Pesticide |
Slug, snail and mouse bait |
| Seed treatment | Poncho® Plus and ILeVO |
SILO weather estimates sourced from https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo/
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