Managing Frost Risk
Managing Frost Risk
Published: 28 Jul 2016
Tactics To Manage Frost Risk In the Eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia:
- Crop and variety selection – match to zones according to frost susceptibility
- Time of sowing – spread flowering and early grain-fill windows
- Delay wheat sowing on frost-prone areas
- Blend wheat varieties – long and short season
- Manipulate crop architecture – narrow row spacing and low seeding rate
- Agronomic practices to lift soil heat storage – stubble load, deep cultivation, soil inversion, claying
- Reduce inputs on frost-prone areas
- Crop grazing – 14 days grazing delays crop flowering by about 7 days
- Spatial tools and mapping – identifying and assessing damage rapidly
- Optimising returns from frosted crops – harvest grain, cut and bale for hay, graze, manure, desiccate.
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GRDC Project Code CIC00027
State: Western Australia
GRDC Project Code: CIC00027,