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  • Legume pasture trials offer alternatives to the 'Mallee medic'
    Legume pasture trials offer alternatives to the 'Mallee medic'
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2022-06-11T09:00:00+10:00

    Ouyen, Victoria, grower Scott Anderson is hosting trials as part of the $12 million Dryland Legume Pasture Systems project, led by GRDC, which sourced legume pasture species to evaluate their adaptation, rotational benefits, sowing methods and economics in different Australian growing areas. The five-year project spanned medium to low-rainfall regions of Western Australia, central and southern New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.

  • New pre-emergent options and their fit in the farming system
    New pre-emergent options and their fit in the farming system
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2022-04-08T09:00:00+10:00

    Crop rotation will play an increasingly important role in weed control as growers grapple with the rising cost of inputs such as fertiliser and fuel in the 2022 season. New South Wales agronomist Greg Condon says the keys to new pre-emergent herbicide options are knowing which resistant weed population you're dealing with and choosing the best product.

  • Harvesting knowledge can transform world agriculture, study finds
    Harvesting knowledge can transform world agriculture, study finds
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2022-03-10T09:00:00+11:00

    An international study led by Curtin University has found that supporting on-farm experimentation networks and activities globally to better connect growers and researchers could help transform agriculture and solve some of its toughest challenges. On-farm experimentation is a way for growers to test technologies and practices by varying management, observing and measuring changes and analysing results.

  • Improving harvester set-up an ongoing conversation
    Improving harvester set-up an ongoing conversation
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2022-01-23T09:00:00+11:00

    More than 600 growers attended GRDC-invested harvester set-up forums during 2021. The forums provided information and discussion around preventable harvester losses, improvements in efficiency and output, calibrating harvester technology, reducing the risk of harvester fires and methods of harvest weed seed control.

  • Growers focus on improved grain storage capacity
    Growers focus on improved grain storage capacity
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2022-01-20T09:00:00+11:00

    Experts are predicting a bumper grain crop this year, prompting storage specialists to encourage growers to ensure facilities are prepared. GRDC grain storage extension project coordinator Chris Warrick says growers are increasingly choosing on-farm storage and are focusing on improved capacity, understanding what is needed to store grain for longer periods and building up knowledge of fumigant and chemical use.

  • Grains market outlook is bullish, AGIC told
    Grains market outlook is bullish, AGIC told
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2021-10-27T09:00:00+11:00

    The 2021-22 outlook for Australian grain is extremely positive, the 2021 Australian Grains Industry Conference has been told. Commodity analysts told the conference that price and export market expectations meant that grain growers could expect a strong year.

  • Artificial intelligence to provide fast, accurate early disease warning
    Artificial intelligence to provide fast, accurate early disease warning
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2021-10-26T09:00:00+11:00

    A multidisciplinary research team at the University of Western Australia builds on existing collaborations in machine learning, genomics, pathology and plant breeding to provide grain growers with tools to assess the impact of frost, salt stress and diseases such as Fusarium head blight. The information will allow growers to act more quickly and more profitably.

  • Successful grain storage starts pre-harvest
    Successful grain storage starts pre-harvest
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2021-10-11T09:00:00+11:00

    GRDC grain storage expert Chris Warrick encourages growers to start maintenance and check storage facilities to prepare for a successful 2021 harvest. He notes growers are increasingly choosing on-farm storage and are focusing on improved capacity.

  • Disease tool to inform growers’ variety choices
    Disease tool to inform growers’ variety choices
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2021-06-16T09:00:00+10:00

    A project is developing a ‘yield loss to disease’ tool that draws on five years of Australian field trial data and statistical analysis. The tool will be used to determine likely yield responses to various disease loads for wheat varieties with different resistance and tolerance ratings.

  • Above-average harvest a chance to reset business goals
    Above-average harvest a chance to reset business goals
    Author: Andrew Cooke, 2021-06-05T09:00:00+10:00

    Above-average incomes from the record 2020 harvest have provided an excellent opportunity for growers to reassess their business goals and investments, according to farm business adviser Paul Blackshaw. Mr Blackshaw told a GRDC Farm Business Update that 2020 was the best year many growers had experienced in a long time.

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