The Germplasm Evaluation Network (GEN) is a FAR Australia ‘Industry Innovations 2025’ initiative that
tests crop performance across FAR Australia’s national network of Crop Technology Centres. GEN sites
are situated in higher yielding regions of the country and test crop performance plus and minus fungicide. FAR Australia provides the control varieties and breeders enter their chosen lines for evaluation.

Objectives:

To evaluate the performance of wheat and barley lines at five FAR Crop Technology Centres, Gnarwarre VIC,  Millicent SA, Wallendbeen NSW, Frankland River WA & Hagley Tasmania.
In these GEN trials FAR Australia provides control varieties and the breeders enter their material under their own variety names, codes or under a FAR code. We would like to acknowledge the funding support of AGF, AGT, GxE Crop Research, InterGrain, RAGT & Seednet with the entries made into the 2023 GEN trials network.

This final report covers canopy assessment data, disease assessment data, yield and quality versus FAR control cultivars. The report also carries details of fungicide program applied and the dates when products were applied along with nutrition details.

Should you be interested in taking part in our Industry Innovations initiative in 2024, more details can be found here https://faraustralia.com.au/industry-innovations-2025

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