Hermitage Winter Crop Tillage Trial
This experiment has been added by the GLTEN Curators using existing published sources.
- Objective
- To study effects of tillage and crop residue management on soil properties, fallow water storage, and crop yields.
- Data Access Statement
- Don't know
- Data license
- Don't know
- Data policy
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- Organization
- Hermitage research facilityexperimental research station
- People
Site: Experiment site
- Type
- research station field
- Location
- WarwickQueenslandAustralia
- Geographic location
- -28.211111, 152.101667
- Visits permitted?
- No
- History
- Native vegetation was cleared in the 1890s. In 1961 the are was in pasture and this was ploughed out and the land extensively levelled to improve surface drainage. The area was kept under cultivation until the start of the trial.
- Soil type
- vertisol
- Climate properties
Variable Time period Value (range) Units precipitation 720 millimeter air temperature (10.4 – 25.5) degree Celsius
Design period: (1968—)
- Design Type
- Randomized complete block design
- Description
- Wheat or barley grown annually.
- Number of plots
- 48
- Number of replicates
- 4
- Number of harvests per year
- 1
- Crops
Crop Years grown winter wheat winter barley - Factors
- Factor name
- Factor levels
- tillage process
conventional tillage
Application method: chisel ploughFour or five primary tillage operations with a chisel plough during the fallow period.no-till
- crop residue management process
burning
Crop residues burnt after harvest.retention
Crop residues retained after harvest.- nitrogen fertilizer exposure
N0 (0 )
N23 (23 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: ureaApplied before sowingN69 (69 kgN/ha)
Chemical form: ureaApplied before sowing
- Measurements
Variable Material Units Frequency Scale Comment grain yield trait All crops soil properties Soil
Related publications
- Silburn D. M., Tolmie P. E., Biggs A. J. W., Crawford M. H. (2021) Effects of farming systems, tillage, and traffic practices on deep drainage and soil salt loads in the Queensland Murray–Darling and Fitzroy Basins using soil chloride. Soil Research https://doi.org/10.1071/SR21084 [In English]