
TEDERA
TRIAL
LIEBE GROUP AND NUTRIEN TEDERA DEMONSTRATION
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
