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: 1 - 10 of 15 search results
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GRDC Code: JWC2505-001CAX
RiskWi$e Mid-term Review
The RiskWi$e initiative was established to address the growing need for improved risk management strategies among grain growers, enabling them to navigate the uncertainties of agricultural operations more effectively. The agricultural sector faces…- Project start date:
- 30/05/2025
- Project end date:
- 05/09/2025
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: BWD2504-002SAX
NGN Summer weeds fleabane and sowthistle management demonstrations for the Victorian Mallee
GRDC's National Grower Network (NGN) is the community of growers and grains industry stakeholders across Australia with whom GRDC directly engages to help develop locally relevant research development and extension (RD&E) investments.At 2024 …- Project start date:
- 01/04/2025
- Project end date:
- 30/05/2027
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: CRT2412-002SAX
GRDC publications 2025-28
Working with Coretext, this investment will ensure GRDC continues to produce publications such as fact sheets, manuals and back pocket guides to help growers and advisers access knowledge generated from RD&E investments. It will cover…- Project start date:
- 19/12/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: CAN2411-001SAX
Storage and distribution of GRDC print publications and merchandise
GRDC requires the management of the receipt, storage, ordering, distribution and reporting of GRDC print publications and merchandise.- Project start date:
- 07/11/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/11/2026
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: CSP2407-002RMX
Phase 3 -Improving farming systems efficiency in southern NSW
This project aims to support growers in the southern NSW grains region to achieve more than 75% of their water-limited production potential by adjusting their cropping system and agronomic decisions. Whole farm profitability can be improved by…- Project start date:
- 15/07/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: SAG2407-003FAX
SAGIT- Making the most of phosphorus fertiliser inputs: Managing spatial variability and long-term strategies
Previous work funded by the South Australian Grain Industry Trust (SAGIT) and conducted by Trengove Consulting has demonstrated the applicability of the phosphorus (P) sufficiency index (pH and NDVI data layers) to predict P response and manage…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2027
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: ULA2402-002RTX
NGN - Gazanias incidence and impact on grain cropping in the Southern region.
Gazanias are an increasingly difficult to control weed in grain production paddocks of the Mallee, Riverland and Wimmera regions of Victoria and South Australia. Gazanias were raised as an emerging difficult to control weed at the 2023 Loxton,…- Project start date:
- 29/02/2024
- Project end date:
- 31/08/2026
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOT2307-001RSX
GRS (Raul Gimenez) Improving the profitability of high value pulses (chickpea and lentil) across Australian agroecological zones
Improving the profitability of high value pulses (chickpea and lentil) across Australian agroecological zones Chickpeas and lentils are valuable components of Australian cropping systems. Besides being profitable crops, they provide rotational…- Project start date:
- 25/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 04/07/2026
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOA2306-015RSX
GRS (Sreshtha Malik) Beyond glyphosate: Targeting unexplored aromatic amino acid biosynthesis enzymes in the search for new herbicides
f776f3a3-2071-ed11-b82f-0050569735c6 E2 E2 Capacity & ability 9179865 Capacity & ability Include. …- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOQ2306-005RSX
GRS (Chrisbin James) Virtual Agricultural Imaging and Sensing through Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision
Phenotyping grain count (and grain count per panicle) in sorghum has been traditionally performed via threshing. Grain count is a trait that is highly correlated with grain yield and, additionally, grain count per panicle is also associated with…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2023
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2025
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active