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Advances in seeding techniques, increased farm sizes and the concern with penalties for delayed sowing have meant that growers are sowing progressively earlier than May, the current practice.
However, there is a lack of data on how currently available wheat cultivars respond to April sowings in Western Australia.
The grain yield response of long season cultivars (including winter wheats) were compared to mid-long season commercial cultivars and the commonly grown short-mid cultivar Mace sown in mid-April, early May and late May.
Cultivars were sown at three sites in 2015 and four sites in 2016 in the wheatbelt of Western Australia.