GRDC Grains Research Update – Goondiwindi

Stay in touch with the latest grains research information at the GRDC Grains Research Updates. The ‘Goondi-in-July’ GRDC Grains Research Update is in addition to the annual 2-day Goondiwindi GRDC Grains Research Update in March. ‘Goondi-in-July’ showcases the latest research for mid-season winter crop issues, summer crops including sorghum and mungbeans and technology topics. A fantastic two days of information relevant to the current winter-crop and upcoming summer crop seasons. Come to hear about and discuss the latest grains research information, share ideas and have a wonderful time with colleagues and friends.

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• General plenary
  • Opportunities for on-farm decision making and data management from high resolution earth observation. Tim Neale (Data Farming)
  • Connectivity & data access / management options in more remote locations - what’s available now, known potential disruptors and risks of tech obsolescence. Tom Andrews (Connected Farms)
  • Mapping soil constraints in 3D for more informed decisions on soil water and constraints. Brendan Griffiths (PCT)
  • Improving grain grower business resilience before, during and post drought. ARMonline tools to assist on-farm decision making by enabling outcomes of different cropping scenarios to be compared. Keith Pembleton (USQ)
• Nutrition
  • Managing N risk in farming systems – implications of N banking and other strategies. Lindsay Bell (CSIRO)
  • SmartFarm testing of 270 paddocks across 90 farms over 10 years to better understand soil health changes and implications for management. Jayne Gentry (QDAF)
  • Impacts of long-term cropping on soil carbon. Megan Barnard (UQ PhD presentation)
  • Formulating conventional fertilisers with waste materials to achieve benefits from the ratio of C:N; lower nitrous oxide emission, lower vulnerability to losses, and greater uptake efficiency. Matthew Redding (QDAF)
• Time for a pea?
  • Managing Ascochyta blight in chickpeas - varietal genetics, increasing levels of pathogen virulence and new strategies to reduce inoculum loads. Ido Bar (Griffith University)
  • Effect of soil water on flowering and pod-set in chickpea and implications for managing frost and heat stress. Yash Chauhan (QDAF)
  • Pigeon pea performance in field trials and its prospects as a rotation crop in northern farming systems. Bruce Winter (QDAF)
  • Keeping the insects out of pigeon pea - key pests and strategies. Trevor Volp (QDAF)
• Weeds
  • Optimising the performance of sensor sprayers - impacts of setup, nozzles, speed and system management. Jeremy Jones (Darling Downs Spray Tech) & Bill Gordon (ICAN)
  • Managing weeds in cotton and grain systems, red flags for residuals and crop impacts, and efficacy and using glufosinate for double knocking. Jeff Werth (QDAF) & Graham Charles (NSW DPI)
  • Manipulating sorghum agronomy to suppress summer grass weeds & Farming systems implications and lessons for weed management. Jeff Werth (QDAF)

• Early risers session - Paddock selection for summer crop 2024/25 in the face of fallow
  residuals and glyphosate resistant weeds. Mark Congreve (ICAN) facilitating
  Jeff Werth (QDAF), Graham Charles, (NSW DPI), Garry Onus (Nutrien Ag)
• Mungbeans
  • Mitigating mungbean risk – time of sowing, soil water and management. Kylie Wenham (UQ)
  • Mungbean harvest management - swathing, desiccation & MRL's. Jayne Gentry (QDAF)
  • New insight and tools to increase yield potential and reliability in mungbean. Shanice van Haeften (UQ PhD candidate)
  • Managing powdery mildew in mungbean. Lisa Kelly (QDAF)
• Crop protection
  • Incidence of reduced sensitivity to DMI fungicides in barley net blotch in Qld - implications for management. Noel Knight (USQ)
  • Rutherglen bug: risk forecasting and management - climate and canola as factors that impact risk in summer grain crops such as sorghum. Zorica Duric (NSW DPI) & Hazel Parry (CSIRO)
  • Using plant growth regulators to manage excessive growth in barley in the northern region. Matt Gardner (AMPS Research)
  • Root-lesion nematode tolerance, resistance ratings & selecting varieties to minimise losses. Wheat and mungbean yield impacts. Jason Sheedy (USQ)
• Optimising sorghum in western growing regions
  • Designing crops bottom up: matching root systems to sites and seasonal conditions. Daniel Rodriguez (UQ) & Ken Haxen (Pioneer)
  • Grain sorghum - an analysis of crop performance, row spacing, varietal traits, & seasonal risk in drier more westerly areas. Genevieve Durrington (UQ PhD candidate)
  • Optimising sorghum grain yield in western growing regions – a focus on nutrition and agronomy. Loretta Serafin (NSW DPI)
  • Panel discussion: How big is the yield gap in western regions and what needs to be done to address it? Daniel Rodriguez (UQ) , Ken Haxen (Pioneer), Genevieve Durrington (UQ PhD candidate), Loretta Serafin (NSW DPI)
• General plenary
  • Fall armyworm impacts & thresholds in sorghum & maize - management options & guidance for 2024/25. Melina Miles (QDAF) & Joe Eyre (UQ)
  • Why ethics will be important for agricultural professionals as the agtech sector develops. Elizabeth Read (AIA)
  • Cereal rust & disease management update, Steven Simpfendorfer (NSW DPI)

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