Claim · model-written summary
Wheat seasonal water use efficiency averaged 36 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Outcome
- WUEBe0
- Value
- 36e0
Verbatim
e0“the WUEB of wheat, canola, and annual pasture over their respective growth seasons averaged 36, 38, and 26 kg DM/ha.mm.”
Title
J. R. Hirth; P. J. Haines; A. M. Ridley; et al. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 2001. doi:10.1071/ar00006
Other claims from this paper (19)
- Observation Lucerne grew more slowly than annual pasture and crops in autumn–spring at 20 versus 41 and 58 kg DM/ha.day.
- Observation Lucerne grew at a mean 26 kg DM/ha.day during spring–autumn.
- Observation Lucerne summer growth ranged from 1 to 52 kg DM/ha.day.
- Observation Lucerne biomass water use efficiency was similar in winter and summer at 16 and 10 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Observation Lucerne annual biomass water use efficiency averaged 13 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Observation Canola seasonal water use efficiency averaged 38 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Observation Annual pasture seasonal water use efficiency averaged 26 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Observation Whole-year wheat water use efficiency was 23 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Observation Whole-year canola water use efficiency was 14 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Observation Whole-year annual pasture water use efficiency was 17 kg DM/ha.mm.
- Observation Autumn lucerne removal left soil mineral nitrogen initially low at 82 kg N/ha.m depth.
- Observation Low initial soil nitrogen was not reflected in crop biomass or grain nitrogen.
- Observation Autumn mineral nitrogen peaked one to two years after lucerne removal at 141 kg N/ha.m depth.
- Association First crop yields after lucerne strongly depended on growing-season rainfall.
- Intervention effect Wet-year first crops yielded as much as or more than controls.
- Intervention effect Dry-year first crop yields were substantially lower.
- Observation Lucerne supplied extra nitrogen for at least two crops after wet-year establishment.
- Observation Lucerne supplied nitrogen for at least three crops after dry-year establishment.
- Intervention effect A two- to three-year lucerne phase reduced annual profit by only $AU40/ha.