GRDC Grains Research Update – Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga’s 2-day GRDC Grains Research Update is not one to miss for the Southern NSW & Northern Victoria’s grains industry. Come along to hear and discuss the latest grains research topics, share ideas and network with colleagues and friends.
Day 1 Program – Tuesday 11 February 2025
General plenary day 1 (live streamed)
- N cycling and loss pathways – what don't we know and what insights and questions have come from preliminary data sets in a major new national project. Mike Bell (Uni of Qld)
- Interactions between water & plant nutrition. Victor Sadras (SARDI)
- Regional fungicide resistance and disease management update. Brad Baxter (NSW DPIRD)
Farming systems (live streamed)
- Incidence and impact of sclerotinia in canola from double break strategies. Kurt Lindbeck (NSW DPIRD)
- Farming systems impact on soil biology, soil pathogens and system resilience. Gupta Vadakattu (CSIRO)
- Fabas – what have we learnt from 4 years of trials; plant density, disease, sowing date, N fixation & variety choice. Rohan Brill (Brill Ag)
Nutrition (live streamed)
- Response of wheat, chickpea and canola to dual P fertiliser placement in South-Eastern Australia. Shihab Uddin (NSW DPIRD), Olivia Brunton (CSIRO)
- N loss pathways and levers to mitigate loss. Mike Bell (Uni of Qld)
- Comparing risk & reward of different N decisions – insights from farming system and RiskWi$e research. James Hunt (Uni of Melb)
Insects
- Turnip yellows virus and Green peach aphid in canola; yield losses and management options. Ben Congdon (DPIRD WA)
- Managing aphids in grains crops and understanding the rise of insecticide resistance. Evatt Chirgwin (Cesar Aust)
- Beneficials to aid pest control in grains – Grains beneficial toxicity table; parasitoid wasps for control of aphids in canola. Lilia Jenkins (Cesar Aust)
Day 2 Program – Wednesday 12 February 2025
Early risers discussion
- Glufosinate and Group 14 herbicides in double knocks – where do they fit in the farming system and how do we optimise performance? Mitch Allen (Nufarm), Greg Condon (Grassroots Agronomy) & Eric Koetz (NSW DPIRD)
Grain Automate (live streamed)
- On farm autonomy – connectivity, robots and machinery. Tom Andrews (Connected Farms)
- The autonomous agronomist – automating data collection tasks for agros. Tim Neale (Data Farming)
- Technology to enable site-specific herbicide application or prescriptions. Alec Duffy (Syngenta)
Soils (live streamed)
- Subsoil amelioration on clay soils in South-Eastern Australia: where will it succeed? Roger Armstrong (Vic Agriculture)
- Lime incorporation: cost/benefit from different approaches. Jason Condon (CSU)
- Lime response on acid, low rainfall, sandy soils of South-Western NSW. Albert Gorman (AgGrow)
Phenology
- Crop Flowering Calculator – an online tool to optimise sowing date for wheat, barley and canola. Julianne Lilley (CSIRO)
- Can we use canopy management as a strategy to manage flowering date? Rick Graham (NSW DPIRD)
- Optimising wheat phenology for late sowing options. Timothy Green (CSU)
- Rethinking flowering date in winter cereals – comparing flowering date risk in new wheat and barley varieties. Felicity Harris (CSU)
General plenary day 2 (live streamed)
- Scaling up 10 years of farming systems research: The profit and practicality of increasing pulse crops at the whole farm level. Tony Swan (CSIRO)
- Panel discussion. Tony Swan (CSIRO), Greg Condon (Grassroots Agronomy) & John Stevenson (Warakirri Cropping)
Live stream of the events
In addition to being run as a face-to-face Update, the Convention Centre sessions will be live streamed for online viewing. Those who register for the live stream (free), receive a link to the live stream close to the event and a link to the online proceedings. Not all concurrent sessions will be run in the Convention Centre, so not all sessions will be live streamed. Please refer to above agenda.
(Agenda subject to change)
Wagga Wagga
NSW 2650
Cost (in AUD$):
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