NGN Lifting faba bean yield and value in NSW High Rainfall Zone
This National Grower Network (NGN) investment aims to assist grain growers in the southern and central High Rainfall Zone with insights into making faba beans a more reliable and profitable crop option. These regions face challenges due to the reduction of pasture legumes, resulting in declining soil carbon and nitrogen stocks and increasing input costs. […]
Disease Management Extension Network (DMEN)
The current estimated yield loss due to grain crop diseases across Australia is $2.523 billion per annum, even with existing control measures such as genetic resistance and fungicides. Without these measures, the estimated loss would rise to $5.569 billion (GRDC Disease and Pest Impact Overview 2024), highlighting the critical importance of effective disease management strategies. […]
NGN – Adoption of Winter Wheat into Grower Rotations in the Low to Medium Rainfall Zone of the Esperance Port Zone
Bridging the gap between research and on farm implementation we aim to use this project to show growers the flexibility, versatility and potential profitability of winter wheats. Facilitating the implementation of seeder width, strip trials of Mowhawk sown next to and at the same time as growers spring wheat cultivar used in their respective programmes. […]
Development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in Victoria
This investment will deliver local development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise faming systems benefits from grain legume production. This will be achieved through the delivery of a hub and spoke model of delivery for grower-driven grain legume validation and demonstration trials across Victorian sub-regions to address these gaps. Three major […]
Validation of Organic Fertiliser Sources for Crop Nutrition in North East Victoria
Due to the abundance of feedlots and other intensive livestock operations in northeast Victoria, there is local interest in using manure to supply nutrients to grain crops and to address any prevailing soil constraints. In collaboration with Riverine Plains, trials were established in 2022 and 2023 to assess the benefits of organic amendments in restoring […]
Development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in New South Wales
The Service Provider is engaged to deliver development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in Central and Southern New South Wales. This will be achieved through the delivery of a hub and spoke model for grower driven grain legume validation and demonstration trials across […]
Enhancing Frost Tolerance and/or Avoidance in Wheat, Barley and Canola Crops Through In-Season Agronomic Manipulation
Australian crop production takes place in a challenging environment where growers have to cope with climatic extremes. Managing production risk in yield-limiting environments due to abiotic events such as drought, high temperatures and frost is a necessity for growers to remain financially viable. It is estimated that $360 million is lost on average annually in […]
NGN – Management strategies for wheat powdery mildew in southern NSW – Validation and extension
Wheat powdery mildew can cause up to 25% yield loss in Australia with commonly grown varieties possessing poor resistance, ranging from susceptible to very susceptible. Wheat powdery mildew is found throughout the wheat growing regions of NSW and is particularly problematic in the western lower rainfall areas of NSW in years of higher-than-average rainfall and […]
RiskWi$e – The National Risk Management Initiative
RiskWi$e (the National Risk Management Initiative), is a 5-year national initiative of approximately $30 million that will run from 2023 to 2028. It seeks to understand and improve the risk-reward outcomes for Australian grain growers by supporting grower on-farm decision-making. To do this it will: Involve grain growers in the identification of on-farm decisions that […]
RiskWi$e – NRMI Nitrogen Decisions
Recent research suggests that the adoption of a nitrogen bank (N-bank) approach to nitrogen management, where nitrogen (N) is replenished and maintained at sufficient levels to achieve water-limited yield potential in most seasons, is less risky and more profitable than conventional N strategies. This research component of RiskWi$e compares various N management strategies to determine […]
RiskWi$e – Disease management decisions: complexity to simplicity – a decision tree approach
Over the last decade, the link between the physiological importance of the top four leaves in cereal crop canopies and the success of disease management strategies has been well-established. This research has identified key application timings based on specific development stages of the crop which coincide with the emergence of the most important leaves in […]
RiskWi$e – Dirt, Diesel and Dice: Understanding and navigating financial risks in farming
Improving farmers’ decision making around financial risks offers a wide range of benefits and opportunities, and is key to the economic stability and sustainability of the farming enterprise. Farming is a complex business and is best analysed in discrete parts, with the three key aspects of financial risk being real estate (“dirt”), machinery (“diesel”) and […]
Predicting wheat production and development in high yield potential environments
What do the nitrogen bank, grain and graze crops, and understanding yield gaps have in common? Answer: the crop simulation model APSIM. APSIM has tested all of these ideas in low and medium yield environments. This project aims to improve APSIM for high wheat yields, so it can be better used to explore new concepts […]
Australian Fungicide Resistance Extension Network (AFREN 2)
The development of fungicide resistance and the limitation of available fungicide Mode of Actions is an ongoing issue for grain growers. The investment CUR1905-001SAX Australian Fungicide Resistance Extension Network (AFREN), led by Curtin University, has successfully engaged a network of experts in plant pathology and fungicide resistance to develop consistent messaging and management strategies to […]
Epidemiology, economic thresholds and management of Ascochyta blight and Botrytis diseases in lentil and faba beans
The profitability of lentil and faba beans is limited and threatened by the presence of diseases. Ascochyta blight and Botrytis diseases (Botrytis Grey Mould and Chocolate Spot) are the most serious disease constraint impacting on lentil and faba bean production in the absence of control, AB in lentil and faba bean can result in losses […]
Integrated management strategies for Net Form Net Blotch in low, medium, and high rainfall zones
Net form net blotch (NFNB) is an important foliar fungal disease of barley that decreases grower profitability by impacting yield and quality. Yield losses in susceptible varieties can range from 18-31%. Generally, less prevalent than Spot form net blotch (SFNB) over the last decade, NFNB is becoming increasingly common since the widespread cultivation of susceptible […]
Industry Innovations (II)
Cultivating sustainable solutions to increase broadacre productivity through research, extension, training and adoption. Industry Innovations (II) – what is it and how can industry get involved? FAR Australia has joined forces with industry to provide innovative research solutions which will create a more productive and sustainable future for the Australian grains industry. With Crop Technology […]
UoM Improving physiological understanding and crop yield of early sown wheat genotypes under constrained environments
This project aims to quantify the historical genetic gains in harvest index and grain yield of Australian winter wheats and to determine opportunities to further lift the yield frontier of winter wheats. This will be done by improving understanding of the physiological mechanisms influencing harvest index in early-sown Australian winter wheats compared to those achieved […]
Winter Wheat Investigation on the Southcoast of WA
The need for GRDC to investigate the fit for early sown winter wheat varieties in the Albany and Esperance Port Zones has been raised at a number of NGN forums in both the Albany and Esperance Port Zones 2023. With the longer seasons experienced in the HRZ on the South Coast growers would like to […]
Hyper Yielding & Profitable Cereals – Quantifying the economic impact of management practices for wheat and barley in medium and low rainfall zones of the southern region
This GRDC investment led by CSIRO brings together experts in crop agronomy, physiology, modelling, economics and communication. The focus is on raising yield potentials in environments where water is more likely to limit yield in some seasons more than others. While the Hyper Yielding Crops (HYC) investment has shown a higher yield frontier can be achieved […]