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Rutherglen Long-term Agro-ecological Site

Details of LTAE experiments at Rutherglen.

Location area: Rutherglen in NE Victoria
SR1
(Stubble retention 1)		RGL6
(Rotation of grain Legumes) 		PTD
(permanent top-dressing)
Start date198019771914
Treatments
Rotations/
crop sequences		DDR, DDB, CCB
(DD = direct drill, R = stubble retained, B = stubble burnt, CC= cultivation, 2 passes with scarifier)

2 year: cereal – grain legume (wht-fab)
3 year: canola, faba wheat (can-fab-wht)
5 year: subclover-grain crop (subclv-subclv-can-wht-bar)		DDB

1 year: continuous wheat (wht-wht)
1 year: continuous lupin (lup-lup)
2 year: phase replicationwheat – lupin
lupin - wheat		Superphosphate
1. No fertiliser (control)
2. Superphosphate - 125 kg/ha every 2nd year
3. Superphosphate - 250 kg/ha every 2nd year
4. Superphosphate - 125 kg/ha every 2nd year + lime at 1.25 t/ha every 4th year from 1914-48.

5. Basic phosphate 125 kg/ha
6. Treatment 6 unclear possibly superphosphate with clover establishment (plots 1-5 on natural pasture)
Permanent subclover pasture or native grass (control)

Replicates841
Plot size4.5 m x 20 m2.4 m x 20 m0.5 ha
No plots56326
Soil typeDermosolDermosolChromosol
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