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  • Pulse productivity gains
    Delivering Impact, 20 Feb 2024
    Pulse productivity gains

    New analytical methods and infrastructure have been developed in Victoria to identify traits and agronomic combinations that can improve pulse crop productivity and profitability

  • Expanded market options for better sorghum
    Delivering Impact, 23 Oct 2023
    Expanded market options for better sorghum

    A sorghum breeding program to improve grain quality alongside a project to explore end-uses for sorghum in food and beverage supply chains has resulted in a net benefit for growers

  • The case for high value pulses in WA
    Delivering Impact, 19 Oct 2023
    The case for high value pulses in WA

    Best bet agronomic packages that support the inclusion of high value pulse crops in WA cropping rotations have delivered net benefits to growers

  • Closing yield gaps on sodic soils
    Delivering Impact, 16 Aug 2023
    Closing yield gaps on sodic soils

    Soil amelioration strategies prove beneficial following an investment push to improve productivity on Australia’s large swathe of sodic soils

  • Disease resistance breakthrough for barley
    Delivering Impact, 27 Jun 2023
    Disease resistance breakthrough for barley

    With no chemical methods available to control crown rot disease in barley, a project that identified novel sources of genetic resistance stands to deliver yield and income gains.

  • Supporting sustainable weed control innovations
    Delivering Impact, 08 May 2023
    Supporting sustainable weed control innovations

    There are clear economic benefits from adopting innovative weed control strategies that were specifically designed for southern farming systems with high-frequency use of break crops

  • Want to supercharge your profit? Dual-purpose canola may be just the ticket
    Delivering Impact, 15 Mar 2023
    Want to supercharge your profit? Dual-purpose canola may be just the ticket

    CSIRO researchers estimate that adding dual-purpose canola into Australian mixed farming systems has generated more than $1 billion over the past 15 years.

  • New winter wheats add agility in low-rainfall regions
    Delivering Impact, 20 Feb 2023
    New winter wheats add agility in low-rainfall regions

    Long-season winter wheats have been trialled to give growers and agronomists in central and southern NSW new data on the opportunities they offer for managing increasingly unpredictable seasons. The research and trials from 2018–20 confirmed the risk-management value, and potential production gains, from varieties able to be sown early and with vernalisation traits that delay flowering until after the frost risk period.

  • Global breeding collaboration pays off in the paddock
    Delivering Impact, 21 Oct 2022
    Global breeding collaboration pays off in the paddock

    A review of the CAIGE program that gives Australian wheat and barley breeders access to international germplasm that is vital to crop improvement has reported a benefit:cost return of 20:1. This assessment reflects the value of international collaborations that are critical to lifting crop yields in the face of climate and other evolving production challenges.

  • GRDC focus delivers gains in herbicide resistance management
    Delivering Impact, 01 Jul 2022
    GRDC focus delivers gains in herbicide resistance management

    With the transition to minimum and zero tillage farming systems over the past 30 years, Australian grain growers have become increasingly reliant on herbicides to control weeds.

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