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  • Help never far away in the wide-ranging agronomy network
    Help never far away in the wide-ranging agronomy network
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2024-04-17T09:00:00+10:00

    Maintaining a healthy balance between professional and personal lives is essential for career longevity and to prevent burnout. It is also vital to develop and maintain networks of people who can provide support and advice when needed. These are the main messages from both established agronomists and relative newcomers who are successfully carving out a career in the field.

  • Opportunities abound in a growing industry
    Opportunities abound in a growing industry
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2024-01-18T09:00:00+11:00

    The latest estimates from the Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture, based on job ad numbers, are that more than six vacancies exist for every graduate of a university agriculture course. The Primary Industries Education Foundation Australia was created to promote and develop credible, objective teaching material for primary and secondary students.

  • Heavy stubble loads demand grower flexibility
    Heavy stubble loads demand grower flexibility
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-11-07T09:00:00+11:00

    In most cases, what growers do to manage retained standing stubble largely depends on their seeding system, but it also can be influenced by crop rotations, weeds, diseases, pests, stubble load, harvest machinery and how much ground cover is desirable. After three consecutive La Nina years contributed to three big winter crops, many growers have found heavy stubble loads increasingly challenging at sowing.

  • Podcasts capture a mobile grower audience
    Podcasts capture a mobile grower audience
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-09-22T09:00:00+10:00

    GRDC has produced hundreds of podcasts since 2018, many of them highly technical and focused on promoting new research or addressing a specific seasonal challenge for growers. In 2022, it embarked on a podcast with a difference, commissioning a series based on discussions after the Regional Cropping Solutions Network final dinner. The premise was to devote each episode to an individual with expertise in a different sector of the grains industry in the southern region, and delve into each of them as a person discussing their career history, influences and what motivates them.

  • Whole host of reasons for supporting NVT
    Whole host of reasons for supporting NVT
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-06-14T09:00:00+10:00

    Every year, Australian grain growers play host to National Variety Trials plots on their properties. Their efforts are vital to grains research, but they also provide valuable information to the host grower on plant varieties and agronomy.

  • Boundaries key to preserving mental health, expert says
    Boundaries key to preserving mental health, expert says
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-06-09T09:00:00+10:00

    When your workplace and your home are one and the same, it can feel impossible to set and maintain boundaries, but mental health expert Kim Huckerby says they are essential for preserving our wellbeing.

  • Researchers issue warning on high disease pressure
    Researchers issue warning on high disease pressure
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-04-20T09:00:00+10:00

    After a wet spring, researchers across Australia have warned that severe disease pressure will require proactive management to minimise damage to this year’s grain crops. Having a good integrated disease management strategy will be critical in reducing grain yield losses.

  • Learning important lessons from 2022’s Big Wet
    Learning important lessons from 2022’s Big Wet
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-04-10T09:00:00+10:00

    Many growers were unprepared for the onslaught of 2022, which was one of the wettest cropping seasons on record for much of eastern Australia. Even those in high-rainfall zones who are accustomed to dealing with saturated soils and waterlogged crops were caught out by the intensity, extent and duration of flooding.

  • Deep ripping provides strong yield response
    Deep ripping provides strong yield response
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-02-13T09:00:00+11:00

    Declines in crop production on sandy soils across the Victorian Mallee after the breaking of the Millennium drought had the region’s grain growers scratching their heads.

  • Fast-changing attitudes to work require business adjustment
    Fast-changing attitudes to work require business adjustment
    Author: Sandra Godwin, 2023-02-08T09:00:00+11:00

    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.

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