Improving farming systems profitability in southern and central NSW – Condobolin 2022

Abstract

Key findings • Despite the wet and cold weather in 2022, all crops produced high grain yields in various cropping systems, except for the pulses. • Chickpea produced very high vegetative growth, but failed to produce yield due to prolonged cold and wet growing season conditions. Field pea also suffered from the growing conditions, producing high biomass and a low grain yield. • Barley produced the highest grain yield with a decile 2 nitrogen (N) strategy under the baseline cropping system (canola-wheat-barley) relative to all other crops and systems. • The highest grain yield for timely sown wheat (Scepter[PBR]) was 7.4 t/ha produced under the intense baseline cropping system (canola–wheat) with a decile 7 N strategy.