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Delivering Impact, 01 Jul 2022
GRDC investment in lupin breeding underpins productivity
Lupin crops deliver valuable productivity benefits by reducing the need for nitrogenous fertiliser, providing disease breaks and boosting cereal yields.
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Delivering Impact, 01 Jul 2022
Ensuring yield benefits through informed fertiliser decisions
Deep placed phosphorus (P) has become an important consideration for growers when planning a fertiliser strategy, with the growing recognition that it can offer long-term yield benefits in many environments and growing conditions.
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Delivering Impact, 01 Jul 2022
Investing in water use efficiency yields results
One of the greatest barriers to improving farm productivity in Australia is water. Not simply a lack of it or variations in the timing and intensity of rainfall events, but efficiently capturing, storing and converting every millimetre into plant biomass and grain yield.
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Delivering Impact, 01 Jul 2022
Adding value to Australia's canola industry
Australian grain growers have increasingly embraced canola as a profitable winter crop option with annual plantings tripling over the past 20 years to almost three million hectares. Growers now produce more than six million tonnes of canola per season, contributing well over $3 billion to the national economy each year.
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Delivering Impact, 01 Jul 2022
Mitigating the impact of blackleg in canola
The Australian canola industry has grown rapidly over the past few decades, from a few thousand tonnes in the early 1990’s to more than six million tonnes in the 2021/22 season. Now an intrinsic part of Australian cropping landscapes, canola provides both genetic and financial diversity in Australian grains farming systems that are otherwise heavily reliant on cereals.
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Delivering Impact, 01 Jul 2022
Supporting long-term control of cereal rusts
Wheat and barley rusts are prevalent in Australia. They are highly infective diseases that can spread widely and quickly within and between regions and have the potential to cause significant crop damage.