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  • Farm Safety Week 2023: Spotlight on safe use of farm plant and machinery
    Business Management, 20 Jul 2023
    Farm Safety Week 2023: Spotlight on safe use of farm plant and machinery

    The Grains Research and Development Corporation northern region panel member was sharing his experiences this week as part of the national Farm Safety Week.

  • SA growers invited to master farm business management
    Business Management, 27 Jun 2023
    SA growers invited to master farm business management

    SA’s Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas are invited to Farm Business Updates in July.

  • Researchers release preliminary scorecard on cropping system profit and risk
    Soil and Nutrition, 08 Jun 2023
    Researchers release preliminary scorecard on cropping system profit and risk

    Profitable cropping systems can be simple or complex, but experiments at two locations over five years showed that diverse systems with pulses were less risky.

  • Gender diversity can be farming’s powerhouse
    Business Management, 06 Mar 2023
    Gender diversity can be farming’s powerhouse

    Nuffield Scholar Katrina Sasse says growers’ daughters can play an integral role in the continuity of the family farm business

  • Fast-changing attitudes to work require business adjustment
    Business Management, 08 Feb 2023
    Fast-changing attitudes to work require business adjustment

    The national labour shortage has brought a shift in attitudes towards work that requires some major adjustments, according to human resources consultant Denise McLellan. She says the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated already-changing attitudes towards work.

  • Spray hazard warning system live for QLD summer spraying season
    Business Management, 12 Dec 2022
    Spray hazard warning system live for QLD summer spraying season

    The system – named Weather and Networked Data or WAND – is the result of six years of collaborative research by the Grains Research and Development Corporation and Cotton Research and Development Corporation into meteorological conditions and the spray application of crop protection products.

  • Flood impact: extra time for GRDC infrastructure grants
    Business Management, 23 Nov 2022
    Flood impact: extra time for GRDC infrastructure grants

    In response to challenging weather conditions and flooding across large parts of eastern Australia, the GRDC has extended the application period for their $20 million infrastructure program.

  • AEGIC is celebrating 10 years of building long-term value for Australian grain growers
    Business Management, 15 Nov 2022
    AEGIC is celebrating 10 years of building long-term value for Australian grain growers

    AEGIC was established in 2012 by the Western Australian Government and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) to increase value in the Australian grains industry.

  • New initiative to challenge growers
    Business Management, 04 Nov 2022
    New initiative to challenge growers

    GRDC will soon be investing in five-year projects as part of the new National Risk Management Initiative. The initiative aims to better understand and improve the relative risk and reward outcomes for growers – a concept that emerged through various forums, including the National Grower Network. The NRMI will have a different approach from most other GRDC projects, using a format called ‘participatory action research’, or PAR.

  • Crop protection forum in Wagga
    Business Management, 10 Oct 2022
    Crop protection forum in Wagga

    The nation’s leading experts on insecticide, fungicide and herbicide resistance will be part of the forum, which has the theme of ‘don’t stop thinking about tomorrow’.

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