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
- ☐ Canola/Rapeseed
- ☐ Cereal Rye
- ☐ Chickpeas
- ☐ Cow Peas
- ☐ Faba/Broad Beans
- ☑ Field Peas
- ☐ Lentils
- ☐ Lupins
- ☐ Maize
- ☐ Mungbeans
- ☐ Navy/Kidney/French Beans
- ☐ Not Crop Specific
- ☐ Oats
- ☐ Peanuts
- ☐ Pigeon Peas
- ☐ Safflower Seed
- ☐ Sorghum
- ☐ Soybean
- ☐ Triticale
- ☐ Vetch
- ☐ Wheat
Interest Area
☐ National Grower NetworkResults found: 1 - 10 of 13 search results
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GRDC Code: EAS2306-002SAX
Group 4 herbicide tolerant Lentil - Crop Safety Field Studies to alternative actives
These trials will evaluate the crop safety and yield of clopyralid tolerant lentils when treated early post emergent (EPE) with 4 alternative Group 4 herbicides.Trials will be located in South Australia and Victoria, the major Lentil growing states…- Project start date:
- 15/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Soybean, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: EAS2305-001SAX
Crop Safety Field Studies - Clopyralid Herbicide Tolerant (CT) Field pea
Novel field pea genotypes with an induced target site mutation have been developed that provide a high level of tolerance to clopyralid herbicide. Clopyralid tolerance provides an alternative or complimentary herbicide group and may provide improved …- Project start date:
- 12/06/2023
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Soybean, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: EAS2205-014SAX
Residue Field Studies - Clopyralid Herbicide Tolerant (CT) Field pea
Novel field pea genotypes with an induced target site mutation have been developed that provide a high level of tolerance to clopyralid herbicide. Clopyralid tolerance provides an alternative or complimentary herbicide group and may provide improved …- Project start date:
- 01/05/2022
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: GAL2204-001SAX
Market analysis to identify current and future opportunities for pulses
The purpose of this project is to build a sophisticated, forward looking understanding of grain markets so that Australian grains industry can identify and take advantage of the best current and future opportunities. This project will focus only on…- Project start date:
- 13/04/2022
- Project end date:
- 20/12/2022
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Cow Peas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Navy/Kidney/French Beans, (Legume)
- Peanuts, (Legume)
- Pigeon Peas, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: AIP2203-001SAX
NGN Tactics to minimise frost damage on the Eyre Peninsula
In 2022 and 2023, this investment will establish a frost management site to demonstrate tactics for growers and advisers to better manage frost in the central Eyre Peninsula. At additional sites (over both years), monitoring of canopy temperature…- Project start date:
- 04/03/2022
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South
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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: UOA1803-009RTX
Optimising plant establishment, density and spacings to maximise crop yield and profit in the southern and western regions
Rapid and even crop establishment is a foundation for vigorous crops that are competitive against weeds. In recent years there has been growing interest in Australia and overseas in adapting precision seeding technology that is widely used in summer …- Project start date:
- 30/03/2018
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2022
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South, West
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GRDC Code: BWD1709-002SAX
Building capacity, skills and knowledge for the pulse industry in the Southern Region: Supporting expansion of high value pulses into new…
Building capacity, skills and knowledge for the pulse industry in the Southern Region: Supporting expansion of high value pulses into new areas and ensuring sustained profitability of all key pulse crops in existing areas.To realise the potential…- Project start date:
- 14/09/2017
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2021
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Region:
- South
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GRDC Code: FMC1707-001OPX
Agvet R2#006 Grant Agreement - Field peas x Silver grass - Priority Use
The Commonwealth has provided the GRDC with Grants as part of the Assistance Grants - Access to Industry Priority Uses of Agvet Chemicals grants programme under the Australian Government's Improved Access to Agvet Chemicals initiative. The…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2017
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2021
- Crop type:
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- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: DAV1706-003RMX
DAV00150 - Understanding the implications of new traits on adaptation, crop physiology and management of pulses in the southern region
Pulses are an important part of many productive, profitable and sustainable farming systems in southern Australia. This investment will provide targeted agronomic research on breeding lines and new pulse varieties which will be synthesised into…- Project start date:
- 30/06/2017
- Project end date:
- 30/05/2021
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Region:
- South