Project summaries
Project summaries
Each year the GRDC supports several hundred research and development, and capacity building projects.
In the interests of improving awareness of these investments among growers, advisers and other stakeholders, the GRDC has assembled summaries of active projects.
These summaries are written by our research partners as part of the Project Specification for each project, and are intended to communicate a useful summary of the research activities for each project investment.
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GRS10033
Perennial wheat is a dual-purpose crop serving as both forage and grain. The perennial habit has many advantages including a lower frequency of crop establishment which confers both economic and sustainability benefits over conventional annual wheat. Further advantages include reduced soil erosion and fewer problems with dryland waterlogging, salinity and nutrient leaching and a lower rate of…Published on 2 Nov 2016
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MCV00039 - Ian McClelland - Managing Climate Variability Independent Chair
Region: National
Published on 16 Nov 2016
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RDP00005 - Southern Region Agribusiness Trial Extension Network:
The project had both a research and extension angle, aimed at improving rhizoctonia management.. A trial was designed to test preventative and curative rhizoctonia management strategies, in order to find those with the greatest economic response in currnet farming systems. The trial was a focus for a field day, but did not yield any results as was affected by sheep prior to harvest.…Region: South
Published on 3 Feb 2016
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DAN00108 - National Brassica Germplasm Improvement Program (1.4.5 PROJECT 1)
The aim of this collaborative NSW DPI and Vic DPI project is to 'equally and fairly' provide advanced germplasm containing important new or improved traits to all Australian private canola breeding companies to ensure that Australian growers have cultivars that allow them to compete effectively on world markets. The germplasm will be either unencumbered or come with freedom to operate if there is …Published on 16 Mar 2018
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AEG00002 - Australian Export Grain Innovation Centre (AEGIC)
Region: National
Published on 5 Feb 2016
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DAN00153 - Northern NSW Safflower Evaluation and Seed Increase
Safflower has been selected as the crop platform for the outputs of the GRDC's Crop Biofactories Initiative (CBI) which will deliver plants with oil compositions that can replace petroleum as a feedstock in petrochemical production. Safflower is currently a small crop in Australia and is not supported by a dedicated breeding effort. There are therefore limited safflower varieties available to…Region: National
Published on 20 Aug 2015
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DAV00123 - Victorian Field Crop Nematology Project
In many Australian cropping soils the presence of nematodes limits field crop production. Murray and Brennan (2009 a and b) suggested that in south-eastern Australia alone, nematodes are reducing wheat and barley production by 4.9% ($98 million a year) and 5.1% ($42 million a year) respectively, with losses in excess of 20% possible. Field-crop nematology in south eastern Australia has been…Published on 16 Mar 2018
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DAV00116 - Stepping up grain production in the GRS of Southern Australia.
This project is designed to increase productivity for the grains industry by lifting crop production in the High Rainfall Zone (HRZ) of south-eastern Australia. Growers are generally relying on unadapted cultivars and management practices adopted from lower-rainfall cropping regions in Australia or from other HRZs in the world. As a result, crop yields in the HRZ are only a third to a half of…Published on 16 Mar 2018
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ATA97 - ATA - Students to study at Western Australian College of Agriculture…
Region: National
Published on 16 Mar 2018
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UA00171 - Advancing Profitable Farming Systems - Frost Risk Management 2017-19
Region: National
Published on 16 Mar 2018