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  • Impact of NVT extends beyond variety selection
    National Variety Trials, 24 Jan 2025
    Impact of NVT extends beyond variety selection

    The National Variety Trials (NVT) system adds value to the agricultural research pipeline in ways that improve grain growing operations beyond variety selection decisions. Included are resource sharing alongside a research seed multiplication facility for use by all GRDC invested research projects

  • Variety trials empowered as a national program
    National Variety Trials, 17 Jan 2025
    Variety trials empowered as a national program

    Former National Variety Trials (NVT) manager Alan Bedggood is proud to have helped set up a system to support growers in choosing new varieties for their farms.

  • NVT – independent and data rich
    National Variety Trials, 14 Jan 2025
    NVT – independent and data rich

    Prominent plant breeder and former GRDC managing director Dr Steve Jefferies reflects on the value of the NVT to breeding companies and growers.

  • Celebrating 20 years of GRDC’s National Variety Trials
    National Variety Trials, 13 Jan 2025
    Celebrating 20 years of GRDC’s National Variety Trials

    Established by GRDC in 2005, NVT has evolved into the largest coordinated variety trial network in the world.  

  • Confidence in comparisons expands beyond yield data
    National Variety Trials, 13 Jan 2025
    Confidence in comparisons expands beyond yield data

    More than two decades of trials have provided the tools needed to compare commercial varieties using independent and locally relevant performance information

  • Growers the guiding hands to NVT success
    National Variety Trials, 08 Jan 2025
    Growers the guiding hands to NVT success

    The work of service providers is audited each year to ensure the NVT program sustains high-quality outputs

  • Experienced insider motivated by data sharing
    National Variety Trials, 07 Jan 2025
    Experienced insider motivated by data sharing

    A background in farming and an agricultural science degree have equipped Neale Sutton for a long-term career with GRDC’s National Variety Trials

  • NVT – performance test-driving our future
    National Variety Trials, 06 Jan 2025
    NVT – performance test-driving our future

    Since its inception in 2005, the National Variety Trials (NVT) program has guided grain growers and advisers with consistent, timely and accurate information on commercial varieties.

  • Faba bean data reduces canola area
    National Variety Trials, 11 Dec 2024
    Faba bean data reduces canola area

    Long-term farming systems trial results and the outcomes of a benchmarking study have given Paul Tognetti the confidence to try faba beans

  • NVT data assists crop and variety decisions
    National, 01 Oct 2024
    NVT data assists crop and variety decisions

    For almost two decades, National Variety Trials have been taking place across the country, providing invaluable data to assist crop and variety choices. Growers and agronomists, Mick Brosnan, Jeff Muirhead, Chris Seimer, Andrew McLean, discuss the benefits.

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