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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Investment list

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  • GRDC Code: UOQ2201-005RTX
    Do seed treatments have a role in Fusarium management in mungbean?
    There are no commercially viable methods for removing long lived Fusarium pathogens from the soil, however the cotton industry has shown that farm hygiene practices, genetics and agronomic management are effective management tools for minimising the …
    Project start date:
    10/01/2022
    Project end date:
    28/06/2024
    Crop type:
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    Region:
    North
  • GRDC Code: DAQ2201-004RTX
    National Mungbean Improvement Program 2022-2026
    Mungbean is Australia's highest value grain crop, consistently worth over $1000 per tonne, it provides excellent financial returns and a wealth of systems benefits. A co-investment of the GRDC and the Queensland Government, the National Mungbean …
    Project start date:
    01/01/2022
    Project end date:
    30/09/2026
    Crop type:
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    Region:
    North
  • 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:
    • Barley, (Cereal)
    • Wheat, (Cereal)
    • Chickpeas, (Legume)
    • Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    • Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
    Region:
    North, South, West
  • 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:
    • Wheat, (Cereal)
    • Sorghum, (Cereal)
    • Barley, (Cereal)
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    • Peanuts, (Legume)
    Region:
    North
  • GRDC Code: CSP2104-007RTX
    Improved management of Rutherglen bug in the Northern Region
    Rutherglen bug (RGB) is a migratory native species that causes occasional but significant damage to the grains industry. Impacted grain crops include sunflower, sorghum, canola and safflower. In years of significant populations, pulses and cereals…
    Project start date:
    30/04/2021
    Project end date:
    30/11/2024
    Crop type:
    • Sorghum, (Cereal)
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    • Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
    • Sunflower Seed, (Oilseed)
    • Safflower Seed, (Oilseed)
    Region:
    North
  • GRDC Code: UOQ2101-003RSX
    GRS - (Shanice Van Haeften) New insight and tools to increase yield potential and reliability in mungbean
    This GRDC investment supports PhD candidate Shanice Van Haeften who is completing her PhD at the University of Queensland in mungbean supported by a GRDC Research Scholarship (GRS). Shanice aims to improve the understanding of the physiological and…
    Project start date:
    01/01/2021
    Project end date:
    31/07/2024
    Crop type:
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    Region:
    North
  • 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:
    • Barley, (Cereal)
    • Sorghum, (Cereal)
    • Wheat, (Cereal)
    • Chickpeas, (Legume)
    • Lentils, (Legume)
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    Region:
    North, South, West
  • GRDC Code: ULA1906-002RTX
    Post-doctoral Fellowship: Integrating yield optimisation in mungbean aligned to UOQ1807-003RTX
    APSIM is an internationally recognised modelling framework to predict growth and yield of a variety of crops in different environments and underpin agronomic performance management decisions. This investment will upgrade the current APSIM - Mungbean …
    Project start date:
    20/06/2019
    Project end date:
    30/06/2023
    Crop type:
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    Region:
    North
  • GRDC Code: UOQ1808-003RTX
    Optimising mungbean yield in the northern region - Mungbean Physiology
    As mungbean increases in popularity grower confidence in mungbeans is limited by high levels of yield variability in the paddock. In addition, understanding the drivers of this variability is currently limited by poor understanding of the crop…
    Project start date:
    10/08/2018
    Project end date:
    31/12/2024
    Crop type:
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    Region:
    North
  • GRDC Code: DAQ1806-003RTX
    Optimising mungbean yield in the northern region - Mungbean Agronomy
    Conventional plant breeding and innovative agronomic research in Australia has transformed mungbean from a small opportunistic crop to a highly profitable, broad-scale grain crop in Australia. The aim of this project is to capitalise on the…
    Project start date:
    15/06/2018
    Project end date:
    30/03/2023
    Crop type:
    • Mungbeans, (Legume)
    Region:
    North