GRDC Investment Summaries
GRDC Investments Addressing a Selection of Issues
High Rainfall Zone
- Minimise the impact of spring radiation frost on grain yield and stability including identified issue - Issue No. 58 - Technologies and tools to detect and quantify frost damage and variation across a paddock to enable earlier and better informed decisions.
- Issue No. 29 - Increasing herbicide resistance in Wild Radish populations.
- Amelioration of sub-soil constraints, especially sub-soil sodicity including identified issues -
- Issue No. 45 - Improving soil water-holding capacity (WHC).
- Issue No. 58 - Manage sub-surface (5-15cm) acidity on land with good surface lime application history.
- Issue No. 64 - Understand the opportunities for delving or ripping on sandy soils.
- Issue Nos. 11 and 30 - Develop new markets for broad and faba beans and issue pulse improved grain marketing through expanded or differentiated markets (faba beans and cereals) and greater grower marketing skills advice to get a better price.
- GRDC - FAR Australia and SFS investment – Hyper-yielding cereals - a feed grain initiative (FAR00003)
- Optimising the yield and economic potential of high input cropping systems in the HRZ (DAV00141)
- Issue No. 4 - Emerging K deficiencies in crops and interactions with other elements - what is the best practice approach (4Rs)?
- Southern Pulse Agronomy, Southern Pulse Validation and Southern Pulse Extension investments
- Issue No. 19 – Improved establishment of canola
- Issue No. 35 – Determine sustainable and profitable management strategies of high volume stubbles
- Issue No. 17 - Extracting greater 'value' from spatially referenced data which is already being collected
- Issue No. 19 - Improved grain marketing through expanded or differentiated markets (faba beans and cereals) and greater grower marketing skills advice to get a better price
- Issue No. 19 - Determine how optical sensors can be used profitably to inform decision making
- Issue No. 24 – Identify the reasons for inconsistent nodulation (and subsequent yield loss) in faba and broad beans
- Issue No. 24 – Determine if cover crops have a profitable impact on soil health
- Issue No. 29 - Determine sustainable and profitable management strategies of high volume stubbles
- Issue No. 30 - Develop a faba bean and broad bean agronomy package
- Issue No. 1 - Identify and develop high value grain crops to complement existing common crops
- Issue No. 4 - Poor harvester efficiency (including grain loss) is impacting on profitability
- Issue No. 7 - Methods to reduce reliance on foliar and in furrow fungicides
- Issue No. 8 – Disease management package for sclerotinia, blackleg and powdery mildew in canola
- Issue No. 8 – Develop new traits for improved canola varieties (including non-GM varieties)
- Issue No. 11 - More accurate weather forecasts
- Issue No. 13 - Improved establishment of canola
- Issue No. 14 - Knowledge and application of economic analysis to make decisions around scale, capital and inputs
- Issue No. 14 - Enable quicker access to long season, Northern Hemisphere varieties with superior leaf resistance
- Issue No. 1 - Identify and develop high value grain crops to complement existing common crops
- Issue No. 2 - Improved assessment tools (site specific and spatially referenced) to better inform tactical N management decisions
- Issue No. 3 - Enhanced accuracy of N management decisions
- Issue No. 4 – Improved management packages for multi-herbicide resistant annual ryegrass
- Issue No. 5 – Determine practices (rotations) to reduce the high input costs required to grow high yield wheat
- Issue No. 6 - Methods to reduce reliance on foliar and in furrow fungicides
- Issue No. 7 - Disease management package for sclerotinia, blackleg and powdery mildew in canola
- Issue No. 8 - Develop harvest and weed seed management techniques to deal with late germinating annual ryegrass
- Issue No. 9 - Develop new (non GM) canola varieties
- Issue No. 10 - Accelerated development of waterlogging tolerant barley