Commencement date

January 2019

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Completion date

2023

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Aim

Establish optimal sowing rate and row spacing for Tedera establishment in low rainfall areas.

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Funding Provider

Nutrien Ag Solutions

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Project lead organisation

Liebe Group

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Collaborators

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Project background

In traditional wheat belt broad acre mixed farming systems there is often a summer feed gap where there is no grazing available to livestock. Over the past decade DPIRD has been researching Tedera as a potential pasture crop to help bridge this summer feed gap in lower rainfall zones.

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Tedera is a summer active pasture and is valuable as a high quality summer feed that retains its leaf. It has also shown to be drought resistant which makes it especially suited to use in low rainfall production systems.

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As such this aims to run a number of trials to establish a set of guidelines outlining optimal sowing rates, and row spacing so producers can incorporate Tedera into their production systems.

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This will be supplemented by another trial run by group in Three Springs that will also be implementing different seeding depths.

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Results and Reports