Growing wheat straight after rice

Soil & Farm Systems
Written By Sauce Communications

Growing reliable, high yielding wheat crops immediately after rice is a great opportunity to improve the productivity of rice farming systems in southern NSW. The principle benefits are higher returns:

  • per mega litre by productively using the water remaining in the soil after rice

  • to capital invested in irrigation infrastructure by double cropping

This factsheet includes:

  • The important Dos and Dont's

  • Surface drainage

  • Soil type

  • Rice stubble handling

  • Wheat sowing time

  • Wheat sowing rate

  • Fertiliser and top-dressing

  • Variety selection

  • Soil acidity

February 2018, Primefact 1617, first edition

Sam North, Research Hydrologist, Water and Irrigation Research, NSW DPI, Deniliquin

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