Mid-season Draining of Rice (March 2014)

Fowler, J

2014

 This Poster presented by John Fowler at the 2014 Rice field day at RRAPL held in March 2014. The poster presents result and images of mid season draining. Midseason draining of rice is the practice of completely drying out rice bays in December, originally to reduce the impact of physiological sterility (“parrot beaking”).  Over three years nine farmer demonstrations indicated that two thirds of the crops gained an average yield increase of 18% by mid-season draining, the remainder had no yield impact. The practice is being adopted in the central and western Murray Valley.