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  • Push begins to diversify markets and value-adding for pulses
    Pulses, 01 May 2025
    Push begins to diversify markets and value-adding for pulses

    This Agriculture Victoria project, led by Cassandra Walker with GRDC support, is focused on diversifying end-use markets for six key pulse crops. The initiative aims to enhance the value and marketability of pulses, ensuring they meet the varying demands of consumers and industries.

  • Herbicide and acid tolerance key to WA lentil growth
    Pulses, 30 Apr 2025
    Herbicide and acid tolerance key to WA lentil growth

    Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has made a significant investment in research led by Mark Seymour, which aims to expand lentil cultivation into Western Australia. This initiative is assessing the agronomic potential and economic viability of growing lentils in the region to enhance the diversity of crop options for local growers.

  • Overcoming acid soils
    Pulses, 29 Apr 2025
    Overcoming acid soils

    GRDC has made a strategic investment in the National Lentil Breeding Program to enhance the productivity and sustainability of lentil crops in Australia. A major constraint to expanding Australian lentil cropping is the prevalence of acid soils. Pulses strongly prefer alkaline soils, which is why production is focused on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia and the Wimmera and Mallee regions of Victoria.

  • Heat tolerance traits identified
    Pulses, 28 Apr 2025
    Heat tolerance traits identified

    In southern Australia, where lentils mature into terminal drought, acute heat stress (compounded by water stress and hot northerly winds) can cause significant yield losses.

  • Profitable legumes becoming a reality
    Pulses, 25 Apr 2025
    Profitable legumes becoming a reality

    A combination of innovative research and strategic collaboration is boosting the profitability of grain legumes in Western Australia’s farming systems

  • Shift in planting time offers new market opportunity
    Pulses, 22 Apr 2025
    Shift in planting time offers new market opportunity

    Egyptian buyers will pay a premium for freshly harvested faba beans with good colour. Sunrise Commodities managing director Scott Merson is working on export pathways.

  • Closing the economic yield gap
    Pulses, 20 Apr 2025
    Closing the economic yield gap

    The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has invested in four strategic projects aimed at closing yield gaps and enhancing pulse productivity across New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Led by researchers Daniel Kidd, Audrey Delahunty, Sarah Day and Rohan Brill, these projects focus on optimising the cultivation and management practices of pulse crops.

  • Support for growers to take up lentils
    Pulses, 16 Apr 2025
    Support for growers to take up lentils

    The establishment of peer-to-peer learning groups that involved 147 growers and 16 advisers in the Eyre Peninsula is helping to expand lentil production into this region. Supported by the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), this investment allows ever more grain growers to obtain the sustainability, productivity and profitability benefits of cultivating lentils.

  • Lentil breeding on turbocharge
    Pulses, 09 Apr 2025
    Lentil breeding on turbocharge

    GRDC has made a strategic investment in the National Lentil Breeding Program to enhance the productivity and sustainability of lentil crops in Australia. The program focuses on developing high-yielding, disease-resistant lentil varieties that meet the growing demands of both local and international markets while expanding the lentil cropping zone in Australia.

  • Keys unlock pulse development stages
    Pulses, 03 Apr 2025
    Keys unlock pulse development stages

    A growth stage key that ensures indeterminate pulse crops are measured consistently has been developed. It will help further understanding on how the environment and management practices influence crop development. It has been developed via the GRDC-invested National Pulse Agronomy project.

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