SOWING THE SEED FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE

Hyper Yielding Crops

a GRDC national investment

The GRDC’s Hyper Yielding Crops (HYC) initiative, led by FAR Australia, is a four-year investment spanning five states (Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and Western Australia) which aims to push the economically attainable yield boundaries of wheat, barley and canola.

The HYC initiative involves five research centres of excellence, and attached to each of these are five focus farm paddock trials and an innovative grower network charged with taking research and development learnings from small plot to paddock scale. Growers are being invited to join these networks and host paddock-scale trials on their properties to enable a “seeing is believing” participatory approach to the research.

Through this new investment, high yield potential cultivars suited to local environments will be identified and the most appropriate agronomic management tactics – including paddock selection and preparation, canopy management, disease, weed and pest control, and crop nutrition strategies – will be explored to assist grower and adviser decision making.

To underpin the “whole community of interest” concept, a HYC awards program is being established. It is hoped that the HYC awards will encourage everyone with an interest in increasing productivity to get involved. Project leaders are seeking nominations of 10 wheat paddocks per region for the HYC awards – 50 in total – to enable growers to benchmark the agronomic performance of their crops.

The HYC awards, Focus Farm paddock strips and the innovative grower network involves TechCrop working with the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation (CeRDI) at Federation University Australia and four farming groups across the country; Southern Farming Systems (SFS) in Tasmania and Victoria, MacKillop Farm Management Group (MFMG) in SA, Riverine Plains Inc in NSW, and Stirling to Coast Farmers in WA.

HYC is a collaborative initiative also involving:

Growers, advisers and others wishing to become involved in the HYC initiative can contact their respective state project officers:

For further information, please contact Project Leader Nick Poole (nick.poole@faraustralia.com.au) or Extension Coordinator Jon Midwood (jon@techcrop.com.au).

Please click on the following links to view HYC:
VIDEOS
PODCASTS
TRIAL RESULTS:
Hyper Yielding Crops 2021 Results
Hyper Yielding Crops 2020 Results (Canola)
Hyper Yielding Crops 2020 Results (Barley)
Hyper Yielding Crops 2020 Results (Wheat)
Tasmania Crop Technology Centre – HYC Harvest Results Wheat G.E.M (Genotype x Environment x Management) Trial
SA Crop Technology Centre – HYC Harvest Yield Results Wheat Elite Screening Trials
SA Crop Technology Centre – HYC Barley Elite Screen Time of Sowing (TOS) 1 Trial
SA Crop Technology Centre – HYC Harvest Yield Results Spring Canola GxExM Trial
SA Crop Technology Centre – HYC Harvest Yield Results Canola Nutrition Trial
VIC Crop Technology Centre – HYC Harvest Yield Results Canola Nutrition Trial
NSW Hyper Yielding Crops Research Centre – Harvest Results (Provisional) Nitrogen Nutrition for Hyper-Yielding Canola Trial
NSW Hyper Yielding Crops Research Centre – Harvest Results (Provisional) Canola Genotype x Environment x Management (GEM) Trial
Victoria Hyper Yielding Crops Research Centre – Harvest Results (Provisional) Wheat G.E.M (Genotype x Environment x Management) Trial
Victoria Hyper Yielding Crops Research Centre – Harvest Results (Provisional) Wheat Disease Management Germplasm Interaction Trial
NSW Hyper Yielding Crops Research Centre – Harvest Results (Provisional) Wheat Disease Management Germplasm Interaction Trial
Albany Crop Technology Centre – Harvest Results (Provisional) Barley Canopy Management Trial 2019/20

Other resources
2022 field day sponsorship opportunities
Hyper yielding and irrigated crop agronomy – cereal outcomes benchmark indicators, decision points, key levers and their interactions to capitalise on great seasons or irrigation. Varieties, N and fungicide lessons learnt.
Fungicide resistance update – national situation and issues for the northern grains region
Hyper yielding crops lifts canola yield above 6 t/ha
ABC Landline – Hyper Yielding Crops Feature

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