Focus paddocks - more results

Posted on June 18, 2009 15:58 by Ben

I've just uploaded some more draft focus paddock results. The topics are:

Yield and quality
Water use efficiency
Chemical inputs
Fertiliser inputs
Tillage
Cost to crop
Profit
Time requirement

There is also a short explanation of operation costing from the BCG Systems trial (also used to estimate operation costs for focus paddocks). The results seem reasonable so far, but readers need to note that we are missing confirmation of data from some paddocks. There is a bit of interpretation in there, but pulling it all together and working out some implications for managers of both No Till and other systems in future is the next major step. If you spot something you think is wrong, or an interesting implication, please let me know!

There is also no new N or P data there - I've just received the results from this year's pre-sowing soil sampling, and some stratified sampling that we did as part of a Mallee CMA project - and they'll be the next new data up.

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