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Industry Insights, 02 Oct 2021
Innovation investment supports grains’ bright sparks
GRDC is investing in programs to engage with innovative grain growers, as well as ground-breaking creators from beyond agriculture, through the Australian Grains Innovation Program
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Industry Insights, 01 Oct 2021
The grower voice that drives RD&E
While GRDC monitors its achievements against key performance indicators, it is more interested in what is happening at the industry and paddock levels. Nearly 80 per cent of the grower community feel they have directly benefited from research, development and extension and that GRDC played a role in the benefits.
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Industry Insights, 19 Sep 2021
Barley research could boost yields under high temperatures
An international team of researchers has identified a novel mechanism in barley plants that could help growers achieve high yields as temperatures rise. Professor Dabing Zhang explored the possibility of increasing seed production through the reproductive mechanisms in plants that respond to high temperatures.
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Industry Insights, 06 Sep 2021
Colour, flavour a selling point in Asian wholegrain markets
Clean, bright, nutritious Australian wholegrains are poised to become a top choice in Asian markets as customers become more interested in health and economic benefits.
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Industry Insights, 04 Sep 2021
Switching to wholegrains offers healthcare savings
New research findings published in the international journal Nutrients in June have shown that simply swapping refined grain foods for wholegrain alternatives could provide healthcare savings in Australia of more than $1.4 billion annually.
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Industry Insights, 06 Aug 2021
Basics of farming a formula for success
Grain growers must get the basics right to give themselves the best chance of success. Failure to do so can result in a devastating loss of time, money and effort.
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Industry Insights, 02 Aug 2021
Record harvest recorded as GM crops roll out
After the lifting of a moratorium in place for the past 16 years, the first genetically modified canola crops have been planted in South Australia. Access to GM canola varieties in the state comes on the back of a record 2020-21 harvest, the second-most-valuable on record at $2.5 billion farm gate value.
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Industry Insights, 11 Jul 2021
GRDC Panel tour to focus on Central Queensland
Central Queensland will be the focus of attention for the GRDC Northern Region Panel later this month.
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Industry Insights, 09 Jul 2021
Research tests management levers for yield lift
Preliminary results from GRDC’s hyper-yielding crops research in New South Wales show superior cultivars that are well-protected against disease are critical levers for producing high-yielding grain crops
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Industry Insights, 30 Jun 2021
Multi-pronged trials road test intercropping
New research is examining the potential for intercropping – the age-old backyard practice of growing two or more crops together – in broadacre cropping systems across the southern grains region. The statewide Victorian study is road testing the productivity and profitability of several approaches to intercropping compared with monoculture cropping as part of the Victorian Grains Innovation Partnership (VGIP).