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Frost Tactics 2 Trial 2: Cereal moderate frost risk

2024

Research organisations
Funding source
Agricultural Innovation & Research Eyre Peninsula EPAG Research Trust
<abbr title='Grains Research and Development Corporation'>GRDC</abbr>

Trial details

Researcher(s) Brett Masters
Rhaquelle Meiklejohn
Andrew Ware
Contact email andrew@epagresearch.com.au
Contact phone 0427884272
Year(s) 2024
Contributor Agricultural Innovation & Research Eyre Peninsula
Trial location(s) Tooligie Hill, SA
Frost Tactics 2 Trial 2: Cereal moderate frost risk locations
Aims
  • To improve understanding the relationship that frost timing has on varietal phenology and time of sowing
  • To determine the relative risk of growing wheat compared to barley in high and moderate frost risk areas. 
  • The plan is to combine with data collected in 2022 and 2023 to determine EP x frost risk tool
  • To determine if there is any benefit in mixing varieties of differing phenology as a tool of evading frost 
Key messages

Choosing varieties with a phenology that shifts flowering away from when a frost is likely to occur, can reduce frost damage/risk.

Lead research organisation Agricultural Innovation & Research Eyre Peninsula
Host research organisation EPAG Research Trust
Trial funding source GRDC AIP2404-001RTX
Related program Tactics to minimise frost damage on the Eyre Peninsula
Acknowledgments

Landholder: Dylon Kay
Other trial partners Rhaquelle Meiklejohn
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Method

Crop types Cereal (Grain): Barley Cereal (Grain): Wheat
Treatment type(s)
  • Crop : Type
  • Crop : Variety
  • Sowing : Timing
Trial type Experimental
Trial design Randomised,Replicated,Blocked

Tooligie Hill 2024 Barley

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Trial design method RCBD Randomised Complete Block Design
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Other trial notes

With very small differences in varietial tolerance to frost, one of the easiest management decisions a grower can make in a frosty area is to plant a variety that will flower outside the tradtional frost window. However there is still need to understand the drivers of phenology with the latest varieties and differing sowing times. 

 

Tooligie Hill 2024 Wheat

Sow date Not specified
Harvest date Not specified
Trial design method Not specified
Plot size Not specified
Plot replication Not specified
Other trial notes

With very small differences in varietial tolerance to frost, one of the easiest management decisions a grower can make in a frosty area is to plant a variety that will flower outside the tradtional frost window. However there is still need to understand the drivers of phenology with the latest varieties and differing sowing times. 

 
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Trial results Table 1

# Variety
 Treatment 1
Grain yield (t/ha)
1 █  LPB19-6850 █ TOS1 3.53763
2 █  LPB19-6850 █ TOS1 3.67458
3 █  LPB19-6850 █ TOS1 3.76881
4 █  LPB19-6850 █ TOS2 2.42983
5 █  LPB19-6850 █ TOS2 2.2
6 █  LPB19-6850 █ TOS2 2.46644
7 █ Bennett  █ TOS1 1.74373
8 █ Bennett  █ TOS1 2.93288
9 █ Bennett  █ TOS1 3.08068
10 █ Bennett  █ TOS2 1.40949
11 █ Bennett  █ TOS2 1.63051
12 █ Bennett  █ TOS2 1.46237
13 █ Calibre █ TOS1 4.3139
14 █ Calibre █ TOS1 4.65153
15 █ Calibre █ TOS1 4.41966
16 █ Calibre █ TOS2 3.75322
17 █ Calibre █ TOS2 3.42237
18 █ Calibre █ TOS2 3.70509
19 █ Commodus █ TOS1 3.57831
20 █ Commodus █ TOS1 3.43119
21 █ Commodus █ TOS1 3.61288
22 █ Commodus █ TOS2 3.23729
23 █ Commodus █ TOS2 2.6278
24 █ Commodus █ TOS2 3.46983
25 █ Denison █ TOS1 3.75525
26 █ Denison █ TOS1 3.48542
27 █ Denison █ TOS1 3.6217
28 █ Denison █ TOS2 2.59525
29 █ Denison █ TOS2 2.86983
30 █ Denison █ TOS2 3
31 █ Denison/Scepter/Vixen █ TOS1 4.17627
32 █ Denison/Scepter/Vixen █ TOS1 3.94644
33 █ Denison/Scepter/Vixen █ TOS1 3.95661
34 █ Denison/Scepter/Vixen █ TOS2 3.11729
35 █ Denison/Scepter/Vixen █ TOS2 2.72814
36 █ Denison/Scepter/Vixen █ TOS2 3.25966
37 █ Denison/Vixen █ TOS1 3.93627
38 █ Denison/Vixen █ TOS1 1.93424
39 █ Denison/Vixen █ TOS1 3.74034
40 █ Denison/Vixen █ TOS2 3.10441
41 █ Denison/Vixen █ TOS2 3.1478
42 █ Denison/Vixen █ TOS2 3.05153
43 █ Mowhawk █ TOS1 4.73356
44 █ Mowhawk █ TOS1 4.93424
45 █ Mowhawk █ TOS1 *
46 █ Mowhawk █ TOS2 3.27797
47 █ Mowhawk █ TOS2 2.86102
48 █ Mowhawk █ TOS2 3.23186
49 █ Mowhawk/Denison █ TOS1 4.56271
50 █ Mowhawk/Denison █ TOS1 4.06915
51 █ Mowhawk/Denison █ TOS1 4.16814
52 █ Mowhawk/Denison █ TOS2 3.21492
53 █ Mowhawk/Denison █ TOS2 3.03254
54 █ Mowhawk/Denison █ TOS2 3.45085
55 █ Mowhawk/Scepter █ TOS1 5.27932
56 █ Mowhawk/Scepter █ TOS1 4.09085
57 █ Mowhawk/Scepter █ TOS1 4.73152
58 █ Mowhawk/Scepter █ TOS2 3.36814
59 █ Mowhawk/Scepter █ TOS2 3.62237
60 █ Mowhawk/Scepter █ TOS2 3.42712
61 █ Mowhawk/Vixen █ TOS1 4.26034
62 █ Mowhawk/Vixen █ TOS1 4.47119
63 █ Mowhawk/Vixen █ TOS1 4.4583
64 █ Mowhawk/Vixen █ TOS2 3.42509
65 █ Mowhawk/Vixen █ TOS2 3.21559
66 █ Mowhawk/Vixen █ TOS2 3.48475
67 █ Neo █ TOS1 3.29288
68 █ Neo █ TOS1 3.91661
69 █ Neo █ TOS1 3.43932
70 █ Neo █ TOS2 1.88746
71 █ Neo █ TOS2 2.66915
72 █ Neo █ TOS2 2.98983
73 █ Rockstar  █ TOS1 3.66712
74 █ Rockstar  █ TOS1 3.57627
75 █ Rockstar  █ TOS1 3.30915
76 █ Rockstar  █ TOS2 2.73898
77 █ Rockstar  █ TOS2 3.01356
78 █ Rockstar  █ TOS2 2.89424
79 █ Scepter █ TOS1 4.3939
80 █ Scepter █ TOS1 4.13017
81 █ Scepter █ TOS1 3.86508
82 █ Scepter █ TOS2 3.71119
83 █ Scepter █ TOS2 3.09559
84 █ Scepter █ TOS2 3.77085
85 █ Scepter/Vixen █ TOS1 4.21695
86 █ Scepter/Vixen █ TOS1 3.81153
87 █ Scepter/Vixen █ TOS1 3.99051
88 █ Scepter/Vixen █ TOS2 3.20542
89 █ Scepter/Vixen █ TOS2 3.11797
90 █ Scepter/Vixen █ TOS2 3.20542
91 █ Spartacus  █ TOS1 3.43932
92 █ Spartacus  █ TOS1 3.39797
93 █ Spartacus  █ TOS1 3.81288
94 █ Spartacus  █ TOS2 2.32542
95 █ Spartacus  █ TOS2 2.90847
96 █ Spartacus  █ TOS2 3.50508
97 █ Vixen  █ TOS1 3.96678
98 █ Vixen  █ TOS1 4.02712
99 █ Vixen  █ TOS1 3.83051
100 █ Vixen  █ TOS2 3.66915
101 █ Vixen  █ TOS2 3.04068
102 █ Vixen  █ TOS2 3.24814

Grain yield t/ha

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Observed trial site soil information
Trial site soil testing
Not specified
Soil conditions
Trial site Soil texture
Tooligie Hill, SA Not specified
Derived trial site soil information
Australian Soil Classification Source: ASRIS
Trial site Soil order
Tooligie Hill, SA Sodosol

Climate

Tooligie Hill SA 2024

Observed climate information

Rainfall avg ann (mm) 385mm
Rainfall avg gsr (mm) 286mm
Rainfall trial total (mm) 263mm
Rainfall trial gsr (mm) 178mm

Derived climate information

Tooligie Hill SA

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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.

Trial report and links

2024 trial report



Trial last modified: 18-05-2026 15:33pm AEST