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  • Key issues for WA growers raised on GRDC panel tour
    Key issues for WA growers raised on GRDC panel tour
    Region: West, 2022-09-23T12:15:00+10:00

    Board members and staff toured the Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions in September, visiting growers and grower groups from Dale down to Frankland.

  • New study to track complete picture of nitrogen losses
    New study to track complete picture of nitrogen losses
    Region: West, 2022-09-21T13:15:00+10:00

    A new national research project is investigating the dynamics of nitrogen (N) cycling and losses across a range of soil and environmental conditions within the Australian grains industry.

  • System and profit gains of long-season wheats
    System and profit gains of long-season wheats
    Region: West, 2022-09-16T09:00:00+10:00

    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.

  • Benefits abound for long-season wheat
    Benefits abound for long-season wheat
    Region: West, 2022-09-15T09:00:00+10:00

    Long season wheats and, in particular, feed wheats are proving advantageous for high-rainfall mixed grower Ben Webb, based near Muradup, WA. Ben says they are more than dual-purpose with income from graze and grain but fill a management need to mitigate frost.

  • Guide provides updated benchmark for machinery investment
    Guide provides updated benchmark for machinery investment
    Region: West, 2022-09-13T09:00:00+10:00

    Benchmarks are a useful measure of business performance and can be used to identify efficiency gains and to guide investment decisions. With GRDC support, and led by Kondinin Group, farm business consultants across Australia have upgraded a benchmark for farm machinery investment. The work draws from a large database of grower information and experience and a manual for growers has been developed detailing the benchmark, complemented by 30 grower case studies.

  • GRDC panel tour to explore local issues faced by growers
    GRDC panel tour to explore local issues faced by growers
    Region: West, 2022-09-05T09:00:00+10:00

    GRDC Western Region Panel members and staff will tour districts in the port zones from September 12 - 15, meeting with local growers, grower group representatives, researchers and advisers in a range of locations including farms and trial sites.

  • Research finds opportunity to reclaim $300M in grain lost at harvest
    Research finds opportunity to reclaim $300M in grain lost at harvest
    Region: West, 2022-08-29T13:15:00+10:00

    Findings from the 12-month Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) investment, led by Grower Group Alliance (GGA), have been compiled from a study conducted across 75 sites during harvest 2021.

  • New eBook to address sodic and alkaline soil management
    New eBook to address sodic and alkaline soil management
    Region: West, 2022-08-24T14:15:00+10:00

    The latest information about sodic and alkaline soil will be available to Western Australian growers and industry representatives in a new digital publication.

  • Mouse tours arm growers with latest management advice
    Mouse tours arm growers with latest management advice
    Region: West, 2022-08-22T02:15:00+10:00

    Grain growers across the wheatbelt have gathered to hear the latest advice for managing mouse damage to crops this growing season at a series of in-paddock workshops with Steve Henry.

  • New GRDC project to assess economics of fallow
    New GRDC project to assess economics of fallow
    Region: West, 2022-08-16T13:15:00+10:00

    A new research project is working to give Western Australian growers in the central and eastern wheatbelt improved knowledge of fallow management and the economic value of fallows in their cropping rotations.

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