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  • NVT the centrepiece in mastering yield complexities
    National Variety Trials, 17 Feb 2025
    NVT the centrepiece in mastering yield complexities

    As established by GRDC, the National Variety Trials (NVT) system creates an independent source of information about the performance of cereal oilseed and pulse varieties across environments and seasons. The side-by-side comparison support decision making by growers and also offer benefits to breeding organisations.

  • Audits keep trial quality high
    National Variety Trials, 10 Feb 2025
    Audits keep trial quality high

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

  • Grower hosts keen to see new varieties in action
    National Variety Trials, 07 Feb 2025
    Grower hosts keen to see new varieties in action

    Hosting National Variety Trials (NVT) on-farm gives National Variety Trials (NVT), grower hosts line-of-sight access to new varieties coming through

  • NVT: a test for pathogen resistance
    National Variety Trials, 31 Jan 2025
    NVT: a test for pathogen resistance

    GRDC invests in plant pathologists and pre-breeders who use the National Variety Trials to screen and select varieties for resistance to disease

  • 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

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