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.
Please let us know what you think as we welcome any feedback.
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: 51 - 60 of 67 search results
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GRDC Code: UOA2105-013RTX
Development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in South…
The investment will deliver local development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise faming systems benefits from grain legume production. This will be achieved through the delivery of a hub and spoke model of delivery for…- Project start date:
- 26/05/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: DJP2105-006RTX
Development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in Victoria
This investment will deliver local development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise faming systems benefits from grain legume production. This will be achieved through the delivery of a hub and spoke model of delivery for…- Project start date:
- 20/05/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/07/2026
- Crop type:
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- Lentils, (Legume)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOA2007-009RTX
Integrated Farming systems in the medium rainfall zone of Southern Australia
This investment aims to provide growers and advisors with information on the rotational value of break crop or legume pasture options for the development of more profitable and integrated farming systems in the medium rainfall zone of south-eastern…- Project start date:
- 20/07/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2021
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOA2007-002RTX
Disease management strategies in broadacre grain crops for South Australia
This project aims at improved management strategies for a number of broad-acre grain crop pathogens. Field trials for ascochyta blight of lentil and faba bean, and Septoria tritici blotch will be conducted with a range of varietal resistances and…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2020
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2021
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UWA2007-002RTX
Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative - Phase 6
The evolution of herbicide resistance in agricultural weeds is a major concern to the productivity of Australian cropping systems. This project supports developing better weed management strategies to mitigate and manage herbicide resistant weeds…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Sorghum, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOA2007-007RTX
Developing strategies to mitigate and manage resistance to key herbicides
The overarching objective of this project is to provide new knowledge on the mechanisms and inheritance of herbicide resistance in key grain cropping weeds in Australia. Regionally effective strategies to manage and mitigate new herbicide resistance …- Project start date:
- 01/07/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: FAR2004-002RTX
Hyper Yielding Crops
GRDC's Hyper Yielding Crops investment will build on previous work completed at the Tasmanian Hyper Yielding Cereals project and the South Australian Crop Technology Centre to identify, develop and support growers and their advisers to implement …- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: ICF1906-002RTX
Facilitated action learning groups to support profitable irrigated farming systems in the northern and southern regions
GRDC are putting growers at the center of a suite of irrigation investments. Irrigation Discussion Groups are able to focus on local challenges and opportunities whilst they benchmark and test the key learnings from the linked irrigation…- Project start date:
- 01/06/2019
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Maize, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: FAR1906-003RTX
Development and validation of soil amelioration and agronomic practices to realise the genetic potential of grain crops grown under a high…
This investment will develop and evaluate the effectiveness of novel soil management technologies and crop specific agronomic management practices on the profitability of irrigated systems. The aim being to address key constraints of yield and…- Project start date:
- 01/06/2019
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Maize, (Cereal)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DAW1903-004RTX
High Value Pulses - Raising awareness, optimising yield and expanding the area of lentil, chickpea and faba bean in Western Australia
Pulses are an important part of many productive, profitable and sustainable farming systems in Australia. Historically in the Western Region, the main pulse has been lupin but more recently, lupin production has declined due to low prices and lack…- Project start date:
- 01/03/2019
- Project end date:
- 28/02/2022
- Crop type:
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- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Completed