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  • Pending trials aim to test novel genetics to counter stressful environments
    Industry Insights, 04 Oct 2024
    Pending trials aim to test novel genetics to counter stressful environments

    CSIRO is seeking to undertake a field trial of genetically modified (GM) canola with increased abiotic stress tolerance. These canola varieties achieve their stress tolerance through the introduction of a gene from yeast. Trigall Australia is seeking to undertake field trials of a GM wheat variety, known as HB4. HB4 wheat has demonstrated an increased tolerance to environmental stress.

  • Australian soft wheat could hit Philippines’ sweet spot
    Industry Insights, 03 Oct 2024
    Australian soft wheat could hit Philippines’ sweet spot

    Philippines companies are interested in diversifying the supply of soft wheat, used for cookies and cakes, with Australian options being explored. As part of an industry collaboration to revitalise the Australian soft wheat export market, AEGIC wheat experts Dr Siem Siah and Dr Ken Quail visited Manila in May to work with large flour and food companies eager to investigate using Australian soft wheat for Philippines-style sweet products. This research is supported by Grains Australia, and previous research was supported by the WA Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD).

  • GRDC invests in data cataloguing to transform R&D
    Industry Insights, 17 Sep 2024
    GRDC invests in data cataloguing to transform R&D

    GRDC’s $3.6 billion investment in research for Australian growers has highlighted the need for improved data accessibility, leading to the development of a new data catalogue to enhance data findability and usability, ultimately driving innovation and research efficiency in the grains industry.

  • Enticing data scientists to take on grain challenges
    Industry Insights, 03 Sep 2024
    Enticing data scientists to take on grain challenges

    A global competition has proved to be a novel means of engaging data scientists to solve a challenge for the grains industry. The competition centred on finding robust solutions for wheat head detection using field images from different regions. With GRDC support through the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry initiative, researchers are now looking to further automate this machine-learning-driven phenotyping of wheat.

  • Analytics internship brings a step change to field research
    Industry Insights, 02 Sep 2024
    Analytics internship brings a step change to field research

    An internship at the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry has built skills and confidence for Agriculture Victoria’s Dr Hari Dadu to transition from controlled environment pathology research to field-based research. His new skills are bringing greater insights to data being collected from several GRDC-supported pathology research projects and improved outputs for grower decision-making.

  • Digital technologies transforming grains RD&E
    Industry Insights, 28 Aug 2024
    Digital technologies transforming grains RD&E

    Data collection, management, and analytics technologies are converging to transform grains research, development, and extension (RD&E). GRDC is making foundational investments in analytics, data, and phenomics to realise opportunities to improve RD&E outcomes.

  • Analytics to power grains decisions
    Industry Insights, 27 Aug 2024
    Analytics to power grains decisions

    The Australian grains sector is embracing a data-driven revolution, leveraging statistics and analytics to enhance research, development and extension projects. Building on previous investments GRDC’s new Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI) initiative aims to elevate the industry’s competitiveness through cutting-edge analytics, fostering collaboration and enhancing the analytics workforce to drive profitability and efficiency for grain growers.

  • Vale lupin pioneer John Gladstones 1932–2024
    Western, 18 Jul 2024
    Vale lupin pioneer John Gladstones 1932–2024

    The acclaimed father of Australia’s lupin industry and a world-leading authority on lupin as a crop, Dr John Gladstones, died in May, aged 92.

  • Study measures faba bean link to system profitability
    Industry Insights, 12 Jul 2024
    Study measures faba bean link to system profitability

    Adding faba beans to canola/wheat rotations lifted returns and lowered risk in two southern New South Wales farming systems experiments

  • Genetically modified New Zealand clover being trialled in Australia
    Industry Insights, 10 Jul 2024
    Genetically modified New Zealand clover being trialled in Australia

    The Agricultural Biotechnology Council of Australia is an industry initiative established to increase public awareness of, and encourage informed debate and decision-making about, gene technology.

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