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  • New sowing date calculators could lift wheat, barley yields
    Delivering Impact, 08 Apr 2025
    New sowing date calculators could lift wheat, barley yields

    The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) has made a significant investment in the National Phenology Initiative (NPI), aiming to enhance agricultural practices for wheat and barley cultivation. This initiative focuses on understanding the timing of biological events in the life cycle of plants, which is crucial for optimising sowing times. By developing an improved sowing time guide, GRDC seeks to help growers make more informed decisions, leading to better crop yields and profitability.

  • Automated biosecurity sentinels guarding the modern farm
    Delivering Impact, 07 Apr 2025
    Automated biosecurity sentinels guarding the modern farm

    GRDC’s role in the recent $21 million investment in the iMapPESTS project marks a significant advancement in pest management for grain growers by developing cutting-edge automated Sentinel units. These devices are designed to enhance the monitoring of agricultural pests, providing farmers and researchers with timely, actionable pest management information. By leveraging advanced technology, iMapPESTS aims to streamline pest detection and reporting, ultimately improving crop health and yield.

  • Strategic grazing with virtual fencing a viable potential weed control option
    Delivering Impact, 10 Mar 2025
    Strategic grazing with virtual fencing a viable potential weed control option

    Targeted grazing using near-commercial virtual fencing devices has emerged as an effective weed control solution across various agricultural settings, including crops, pastures and summer fallows.

  • Making sense of the weather
    Delivering Impact, 05 Mar 2025
    Making sense of the weather

    Recent investments by GRDC in enhanced seasonal forecast information have resulted in a productivity boost for growers in the southern region and southern New South Wales.

  • Machine learning heralds a new era of functional soil mapping
    Delivering Impact, 24 Sep 2024
    Machine learning heralds a new era of functional soil mapping

    The mapping pf soil constraints and plant-available water capacity has benefited significantly from consecutive GRDC investments in the development and deployment of machine-learning models

  • Improving chickpea pathogen resistance
    Delivering Impact, 10 Sep 2024
    Improving chickpea pathogen resistance

    A push to improve chickpea resistance to a key yield-limiting root disease has delivered both improved genetic resistance into the breeding gene pool and improved breeding technology to pulse breeders

  • Australian Grains Genebank delivers major earnings
    Delivering Impact, 09 Sep 2024
    Australian Grains Genebank delivers major earnings

    A large investment in the genetic resources that underpin the grains industry has proven that significant benefits are possible to growers from a better-resourced genebank, with the investment producing an internal rate of return of 13 per cent

  • Project targets chickpea expansion into acid soils
    Delivering Impact, 11 Jun 2024
    Project targets chickpea expansion into acid soils

    Since acid sensitivity prevents chickpea cultivation on large swathes of grain growing regions, a project that screened for acid-tolerant germplasm and rhizobia will deliver substantial benefits to growers when chickpea varieties with acid soil tolerance are released

  • The nitrogen rate decision problem
    Industry Insights, 05 Jun 2024
    The nitrogen rate decision problem

    Innovative approaches to the way nitrogen application rates are determined could deliver substantial benefits to grain growers as research work enters the commercialisation phase

  • Dryland pasture systems innovation for mixed farms
    Delivering Impact, 04 Mar 2024
    Dryland pasture systems innovation for mixed farms

    A suite of projects that identified a new generation of legume pasture species that are better adapted to dryland mixed farming systems has returned substantial benefits on investment

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