GRDC Grains Research Update – Miles

GRDC Grains Research Update
Miles – Tuesday 26 July 2022

Discuss the latest farm-ready information to improve profit, with researchers, agronomists and leading growers at the Miles GRDC Grains Research Update.

Topics:

• Farming system resilience - system risks and sustainability. Jeremy Whish(CSIRO)
  • How much rain is needed to hit a soil water trigger for sowing in different soils and conditions?
  • Risk and double cropping after sorghum.
• Grain storage. Chris Warrick (Primary Business)
  • Managing chickpea and cereal quality in on-farm storage
  • New data on falling numbers
  • Storage environment, variety and harvest conditions and aeration performance and back pressures.
• Managing problem summer grass weeds with pre-emergents. Richard Daniel (Northern Grower Alliance)
• Crown rot management. Steven Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)
  • Pushing wheat rotations
  • Variety tolerance vs resistance
  • Basal browning vs yield impact
  • Stripper front impacts.
• Cereal disease issues with rusts and yellow leaf spot in 2022. Lislé Snyman (DAF Qld)
• How soil organic matter and carbon work!  Data from 500 paired sites across the northern region. Mike Bell(UQ)
• Carbon sequestration options for grain producers in NSW & Qld - pros, cons and pitfalls. Peter Grace (QUT)
• An inversion drift hazard alert and warning system for eastern Australia - advantages of 24-hour monitoring and forecasts. Graeme Tepper (Micrometeorological Research)

Cost (in AUD$): $30