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: 51 - 60 of 70 search results
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GRDC Code: BRA2105-001RTX
Development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in New South…
The Service Provider is engaged to deliver development and extension to close the economic yield gap and maximise farming systems benefits from grain legume production in Central and Southern New South Wales. This will be achieved through the…- Project start date:
- 31/05/2021
- Project end date:
- 15/06/2026
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Region:
- North
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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
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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
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GRDC Code: DJP2104-003OPX
National Lentil Breeding Program
The National Lentil Breeding program will deliver a transformational change in lentil breeding to develop improved, high yielding varieties faster, thereby enabling Australian growers to improve profitability. The program deploys innovative breeding …- Project start date:
- 18/05/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2025
- Crop type:
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- Lentils, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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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
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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
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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
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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
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GRDC Code: WMG2003-001SAX
Increasing the profitability of the double break rotation in the medium rainfall zone of WA Wheatbelt through incorporation of an early…
In the past, one of the reasons for delaying the seeding of pulse crops has been due to the need for a double knock to reduce weed competition from staggered weed germination, however, the delayed sowing of pulses can result in lower yields (Larn et …- Project start date:
- 06/03/2020
- Project end date:
- 31/05/2023
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Region:
- West
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GRDC Code: UOQ2002-010RTX
CropPhen: Remote mapping of grain crop type and phenology
This project aims to develop a software-based tool to remotely map crop type (wheat, barley, chickpea, lentils, sorghum and mungbean) and development stage at the sub-paddock scale. The project will combine remote sensing, crop simulation modelling, …- Project start date:
- 24/02/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Sorghum, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West