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Cereals, 13 Jan 2023
Beyond breakfast for Aussie oats
Noodles, rice, couscous, semolina, bubble tea – oats are becoming an option for lunch, dinner and snacks. The Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre are developing these products for growing markets for Australian oats into Asia.
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Cereals, 12 Jan 2023
Long game to expand Australian oat markets
The volume of oats required for milling within Australia is continuing to grow, providing a solid foundation for Australian oat growers, so future markets are being sought and the target is Asia.
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Cereals, 11 Jan 2023
GRDC harnesses science and innovation for oats
Oats are entering a new era as they move from animal fuel to human health food. Whilst the nutritional benefits of the species are being dissected to address growing life-style diseases, GRDC are harnessing cutting-edge science and innovation to drive improvements for oats.
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Cereals, 10 Nov 2022
Pre-harvest sprouting management
A recent GRDC survey coordinated by Stirlings to Coast Farmers has found 60 per cent of growers have discarded a desirable wheat variety as it had proven susceptible to sprouting. As part of a preparedness plan Jeremy Curry from DPIRD Esperance encourages growers to consider Falling number index ratings – a measure of pre-harvest sprouting susceptibility of wheat varieties- alongside other factors when selecting suitable varieties for an environment and sowing date.
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Cereals, 16 Sep 2022
System and profit gains of long-season wheats
As more long-season cereal types are becoming commercially available, they are providing system and profit benefits as demonstrated by a trial managed by Southern Dirt at West Muradup in southern WA.
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Cereals, 28 Apr 2022
Long, longer, longest: new trials weigh up benefits of long coleoptile wheat varieties
New trials in WA are weighing up the benefits of long coleoptile wheat varieties. They’re part of a two-year GRDC investment, led by SLR Agriculture, focusing on the long coleoptile trait.
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Cereals, 14 Apr 2022
Pre-breeding co-investment tackles sorghum lodging
A new $11.6 million, five-and-a-half-year joint investment aims to address lodging in sorghum, an issue consistently rated as the most significant concern facing sorghum growers
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Cereals, 05 Mar 2022
New efforts to tackle irregular grain quality
Researchers are exploring possible ways to mitigate the risk of price discounts after rain falls on mature wheat crops
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Cereals, 23 Feb 2022
Earlier sown winter barley sets new yield benchmarks >10 t/ha
Barley yields in excess of 10 t/ha have been recorded at Field Applied Research (FAR) Australia’s SA Crop Technology Centre, home to the GRDC Hyper Yielding Crops research project in South Australia.
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Cereals, 20 Feb 2022
Quality candidates recognised in historic double win
For the first time in its history, the Australasian Grain Science Association has presented two researchers with the Guthrie Award for their outstanding contributions to grain science