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Foreword NSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI) experiments to be replicated across high, medium welcomes you to the second edition of Southern and low rainfall zones with Yanco providing the NSW Research Results 2015. This book has been opportunity to conduct irrigated experiments. produced to increase awareness of research and NSW DPI’s research program includes the areas development (R&D) activities undertaken by NSW DPI of germplasm improvement; farming systems in the southern cropping region of NSW. It delivers management e.g. nutrient management, agronomy, the outcomes of these activities to our stakeholders water use efficiency and crop sequencing; plant including agribusiness, consultants and growers. protection e.g. entomology, pathology and integrated This document is a comprehensive, annual report weed management; water productivity; and supply of NSW DPI’s R&D activities in southern NSW. This chains and market access. The following papers year the book has been expanded to include provide an insight into selected R&D activities taking the soils, climate, weeds, farming systems, water place in the southern region. We hope you will and irrigation research in southern NSW. find them interesting and valuable to your farming NSW DPI, in collaboration with our major funding system or the farming clients you work with. partner GRDC, is at the forefront of agricultural We acknowledge the many collaborators (growers, research in the southern cropping region of NSW. agribusiness and consultants) that make this Our R&D teams conduct applied, scientifically sound, research possible. We also encourage feedback to independent research to advance the profitability help us produce improved editions in future years. and sustainability of our farming systems. The Research and Development Teams The Department’s major research centres in NSW Department of Primary Industries the southern region of NSW are Wagga Wagga, Yanco, Condobolin and Cowra where our team of highly reputable research and development officers and support staff are based. The regional geographic spread of the research centres allows for 2 | NSW Department of Primary Industries Contents 7 Seasonal conditions 2015 agronomy – cereals 9 Understanding wheat phenology: flowering response to sowing time Dr Felicity Harris NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga; Dr Peter Martin Howqua Consulting; Dr Howard Eagles University of Adelaide 13 Wheat varieties differ in response to natural heat events during the early reproductive stage contents Dr Livinus Emebiri, Kerry Taylor, Shane Hildebrand and Denise Pleming NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga; Nicholas Collins Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, Adelaide 15 Effect of sowing date on grain yield of 36 wheat varieties – Wagga Wagga 2015 Eric Koetz, Hugh Kanaley and Greg McMahon NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 19 Effect of sowing date and nitrogen rate on grain yield of six wheat varieties – Lockhart 2015 Eric Koetz, Hugh Kanaley and Greg McMahon NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 22 Effect of nitrogen rate and sowing time on grain yield and grain protein of six wheat varieties – Condobolin 2015 Ian Menz, Nick Moody and Daryl Reardon NSW DPI, Condobolin 25 Effect of sowing date on grain yield, water-use efficiency and grain quality of wheat – Canowindra 2015 Colin McMaster NSW DPI, Cowra; Adam Coleman NSW DPI, Orange 30 Effect of sowing time on 32 wheat varieties – Condobolin 2015 Ian Menz, Nick Moody and Daryl Reardon NSW DPI, Condobolin 33 Response of twelve barley and four wheat varieties to three sowing dates – Matong 2015 Rohan Brill, Paula Charnock, Warren Bartlett and Sharni Hands NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 35 Optimising barley phenology: flowering response to sowing time in Central West NSW David Burch and Nick Moody NSW DPI, Condobolin; Dr Felicity Harris and Graeme Sandral NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 37 Grain yield of eighteen barley varieties sown at three different dates – Condobolin 2015 David Burch, Nick Moody and Ian Menz NSW DPI, Condobolin agronomy – canola 40 The effect of sowing date and fungicide application on grain yield of canola – Alma Park 2015 Rohan Brill, Paula Charnock, Warren Bartlett and Sharni Hands NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 43 The effect of sowing date and irrigation pre-sowing on the grain yield of canola – Ganmain 2015 Rohan Brill, Paula Charnock, Warren Bartlett and Sharni Hands NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 45 Effect of sowing date on phenology and grain yield of twelve canola varieties – Canowindra 2015 Colin McMaster NSW DPI, Cowra; Adam Coleman NSW DPI, Orange 48 Effect of sowing date and applied phosphorus on canola grain yield – 2014 and 2015 Colin McMaster NSW DPI, Cowra; Mark Conyers NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga; Adam Coleman NSW DPI, Orange 50 Effect of sowing date on phenology and grain yield of six canola varieties – Condobolin 2015 Ian Menz and Daryl Reardon NSW DPI, Condobolin; Rohan Brill NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 52 Effect of sowing date, seeding rate and irrigation pre-sowing on grain yield of two canola varieties – Condobolin 2015 Ian Menz and Daryl Reardon NSW DPI, Condobolin; Rohan Brill NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga agronomy – pulses 55 Faba bean time of sowing – Wagga Wagga 2014 Dr Eric Armstrong, Gerard O’Connor and Luke Gaynor NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 61 Faba bean time of sowing – Wagga Wagga 2015 Mark Richards, Dr Eric Armstrong, Luke Gaynor, Karl Moore, Russell Pumpa and Jon Evans NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga SOUTHERN NSW RESEARCH RESULTS 2015 | 3 65 Faba bean time of sowing – Junee Reefs 2015 Mark Richards, Dr Eric Armstrong, Luke Gaynor, Karl Moore, Russell Pumpa and Jon Evans NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 68 Faba bean time of sowing – Lockhart 2015 Mark Richards, Dr Eric Armstrong, Luke Gaynor, Karl Moore, Russell Pumpa and Jon Evans NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 71 Lentil time of sowing and sowing rate – Wagga Wagga 2015 Mark Richards, Dr Eric Armstrong, Karl Moore, Russell Pumpa and Jon Evans NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 74 Lentil time of sowing and sowing rate – Yenda 2015 Mark Richards, Dr Eric Armstrong, Karl Moore, Russell Pumpa and Jon Evans NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 77 Lentil sowing rate – Yenda 2014 Dr Eric Armstrong, Gerard O’Connor and Luke Gaynor NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 81 Imidazolinone-tolerant lentils– Wagga Wagga 2014 Dr Eric Armstrong, Gerard O’Connor and Luke Gaynor NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga nutrition & soil 85 Nodulation studies with pulses on acidic red-brown soils – Wagga Wagga 2014 Dr Eric Armstrong, Gerard O’Connor and Luke Gaynor NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 90 Nodulation studies with pulses on acidic red sandy soils – Yenda 2014 Dr Eric Armstrong, Gerard O’Connor and Luke Gaynor NSW DPI, Wagga Wagga 94 Use of quality legume inoculants to get the most from nitrogen fixation Elizabeth Hartley, Greg Gemell and Jade Hartley NSW DPI, Ourimbah 98 The eXtensionAUS Crop Nutrition online