GRDC Grains Research Update – Jandowae

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

Topics:

• Farming systems – profit over time and risk. An update on local farming systems research outcomes. Lindsay Bell (CSIRO)
• Amelioration strategies for dispersive soils in the northern grain’s region.  Multiyear trial results and repayment periods. Cameron Silburn (QDAF)
• SmartFarm testing of 270 paddocks over 10 years across 90 farms to better understand soil health changes and implications for management. Jayne Gentry (QDAF)
• Exploring soil organic carbon in long term cultivated vertosols on the Darling Downs. Meghan Barnard (UQ, PhD candidate)
• GHG emissions and intensities of our farming systems – what can we learn from long-term systems experiments? Lindsay Bell (CSIRO)
• Fall armyworm impacts & thresholds in sorghum & maize - management options & guidance for 2024/25, plus consultant observations from last season. Joe Eyre (UQ) & Melina Miles (QDAF) & Ross Pomroy (Nutrien Ag Solutions)
• 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)
• Mungbean harvest management - swathing, desiccation & MRL's. Jayne Gentry (QDAF)

Registration: 8:30am for a 9am start. Finish 2:45pm. Cost: $30 pp. (Cheques payable to ICAN Pty. Ltd.). Morning tea, lunch and proceedings provided.

(Agenda subject to change)

Cost (in AUD$): $30