GRDC Investments
Investments
Welcome to our investments. We invest in Research, Development and Extension (RD&E) to create enduring profitability for Australian grain growers.
Here you will find active investments, and investments completed after 1 January 2020 from our RD&E portfolio. Some investments will display related communication and extension activities, and other associated outputs.
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Crop Type
Crop Type
- ☐ All Crops
- ☐ All Pulses
- ☑ Barley
- ☐ Canary Seed
- ☐ Canola/Rapeseed
- ☐ Cereal Rye
- ☐ Chickpeas
- ☐ Cow Peas
- ☐ Faba/Broad Beans
- ☐ Field Peas
- ☐ Lentils
- ☐ Linseed/Linola
- ☐ Lupins
- ☐ Maize
- ☐ Millet
- ☐ Mungbeans
- ☐ Navy/Kidney/French Beans
- ☐ Not Crop Specific
- ☐ Oats
- ☐ Peanuts
- ☐ Pigeon Peas
- ☐ Safflower Seed
- ☐ Sorghum
- ☐ Soybean
- ☐ Sunflower Seed
- ☐ Triticale
- ☐ Vetch
- ☐ Wheat
Results found: 71 - 80 of 133 search results
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GRDC Code: BWD2112-001RTX
NGN - Management of Rosinweed and Star of Bethlehem in Victoria's Mallee and Wimmera
The project will investigate control options for management of rosinweed and star of Bethlehem in the Victorian Mallee and Wimmera regions through a series of pot and field studies. The project will also investigate seed dormancy levels in rosinweed.- Project start date:
- 01/12/2021
- Project end date:
- 01/05/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South
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GRDC Code: SFS2112-002SAX
NGN Large stubble loads and the impact of stripper/disc systems in the High Rainfall Zone of Southern Australia
This investment will compare the stripper and disc seeding systems as a method for managing the high stubble loads generated from high yielding crops.Growers in the southern region have repeatedly expressed interest in stripper and disc systems as a …- Project start date:
- 01/12/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South
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GRDC Code: DAW2112-002RTX
Disease epidemiology, modelling and delivery of management decision support tools
This project will build on the successes of previous investments and continue to deliver improved decision making for management of key foliar fungal diseases in cereal, oilseed, and pulse crops. Through the production and delivery of management…- Project start date:
- 01/12/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/10/2026
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: UMU2111-001RTX
Overcoming constraints to the profitability of cropping systems on ironstone gravel soils within the Southern cropping region of Australia. …
The idea for increased profitability on ironstone gravel soils originated from the Albany and Kwinana west port zone within the western region, however, is it applicable to a wider area of the southern cropping region. Ironstone is a sedimentary…- Project start date:
- 15/11/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2025
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Triticale, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South, West
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GRDC Code: CSP2110-004RMX
Improving farming systems efficiency in southern NSW
Whole farm profitability can be improved by identifying the agronomic factors that drive profit and adopting management that optimises returns (favouring the value return and mitigating the risk). Growers are under mounting pressure to maintain…- Project start date:
- 11/10/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Cereal Rye, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Triticale, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North
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GRDC Code: DAQ2106-007RTX
Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (within the Northern region)
This project is part of a national disease surveillance program to monitor the changes in pathogen populations for cereals and pulses including their incidence and severity in association with changes in farming practice and other factors (such as…- Project start date:
- 30/06/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Sorghum, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Peanuts, (Legume)
- Region:
- North
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GRDC Code: RPI2104-001SAX
Best practice liming demonstration to address subsoil acidity in North Eastern Victoria
This investment is designed to provide services to establish one replicated field trial to demonstrate best practice liming strategies and a field demonstration of the impacts of lime quality per annum, over two years. This investment will…- Project start date:
- 15/06/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2025
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South
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GRDC Code: DAW2104-001RTX
Management of spot form of net blotch in the low rainfall zones of Western Australia
Spot form net blotch (SFNB) is one of the most common foliar diseases of barley in Australia. It can be economically important in favourable seasons. In the low rainfall zones (LRZ) of Western Australia, there is a lack of confidence and knowledge…- Project start date:
- 30/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Region:
- West
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GRDC Code: DAW2104-003RTX
Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (Western region)
This project is part of a national disease surveillance program to monitor the changes in pathogen populations for cereals, oilseeds and pulses including their incidence and severity in association with changes in farming practice and other factors…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2024
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- West
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GRDC Code: DJP2103-005RTX
Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (within the Southern region - Victoria)
This project is part of a national disease surveillance program to monitor the changes in pathogen populations including their incidence and severity in association with changes in farming practice and other factors (such as climatic trends) that…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- South