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  • Modelling to help manage temperature stress
    Climate, 20 Nov 2024
    Modelling to help manage temperature stress

    The ability to zone paddocks relative to susceptibility to heat and frost damage is under development using data-driven modelling to help growers better manage climate constraints

  • Fostering high-impact innovation in heat tolerance
    Climate, 08 Nov 2024
    Fostering high-impact innovation in heat tolerance

    GRDC has long maintained an extensive investment portfolio looking to improve the heat tolerance of grain crops. Extended periods of high temperature stress and short periods of heat shock (greater than 30°C) during flowering and seed filling are also a significant constraint for canola, with an estimated annual economic loss of more than $400 million.

  • GHG emissions avoidance a preferred strategy
    Climate, 20 May 2024
    GHG emissions avoidance a preferred strategy

    A greenhouse gas emissions expert told the 2024 Wagga Wagga GRDC Update to expect a link between carbon footprints and commodity prices in the future

  • Ecosystem services present opportunities and risks
    Climate, 16 Apr 2024
    Ecosystem services present opportunities and risks

    A recent study conducted for GRDC by Aton Consulting concluded that while there will be some commercial opportunities for growers from direct participation in emerging 'ecosystem services' markets (such as placing land that is not currently in production under protection to generate biodiversity credits), larger impacts are more likely related to financing, land valuations and market access issues, and these may be both positive and negative.

  • Paddock drainage trials show promising results
    Climate, 09 Jun 2023
    Paddock drainage trials show promising results

    GRDC investments, South Coast NRM and Stirlings to Coast Farmers are exploring the potential return on investment of subsurface water management options.

  • Learning important lessons from 2022’s Big Wet
    Climate, 10 Apr 2023
    Learning important lessons from 2022’s Big Wet

    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.

  • Crop growth stage the key to effects of waterlogging
    Climate, 06 Apr 2023
    Crop growth stage the key to effects of waterlogging

    Researchers have been testing if nutrient applications can help mitigate the effects of waterlogging on grain yields. It is critical to understand the crop growth stage during waterlogging to determine potential yield impacts, they say.

  • All indicators point to a wet outlook
    Climate, 11 Nov 2022
    All indicators point to a wet outlook

    With a rare third La Niña event now underway, long-range forecasting expert at the Bureau of Meteorology Dr Andrew Watkins explains how this climate driver and others are used to create climate outlooks.

  • Keeping crops a head above water
    Climate, 17 Oct 2022
    Keeping crops a head above water

    With wet conditions saturating large areas of crop production land across Victoria and Tasmania, a GRDC project is identifying ways to maximise crop performance when waterlogging occurs.

  • Prepare to minimise fire risk this harvest
    Climate, 11 Oct 2022
    Prepare to minimise fire risk this harvest

    Harvester fires can damage equipment, destroy crops and infrastructure and endanger life.

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