Birchip Cropping Group

The BCG spoke trial is located at "Kinnabulla" near Birchip in the Mallee region of Victoria.


Experimental Design

The experiment has three main farming systems as treatments

  1. Intensive cropping without livestock: lentil-wheat-barley rotation
  2. Mixed farming with sown annual pasture: vetch – wheat – barley rotation with X DSE per ha stocking rate – Dry ewes used to simulate traded store lambs.
  3. Responsive system un-replicated where rotation is decided by the trial site reference/steering group.


Read more about the trials at Kinnabulla:

Drought and Climate Resilient Farming Systems



Trials Review Day - Kinnabulla Farming Systems Trial (UoM) Presentation by James Nuttall



Research Team

Dr James Nuttall
Project lead

Ben Edelsten
Research and operations

Noah Homsy-King
Research and operations

Louisa Ferrier
Research and extension