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: 31 - 40 of 55 search results
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GRDC Code: EAS2205-006SAX
Residue Field Studies - Prosulfocarb Oats
Grass weed control remains problematic for oat production.Crop Safety and efficacy trials conducted by ADAMA, has demonstrated that Countdown Herbicide (prosulfocarb 800 gai/L) can be safely used in oats when applied Incorporated By Sowing (IBS).The …- Project start date:
- 01/05/2022
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- Oats, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CSP2204-007RTX
Durable resistance to Oat crown rust
Crown rust or leaf rust, caused by Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae, is a significant oat foliar disease. Breeding for durable rust resistant oat cultivars is challenging due to rapid changes in the pathogen population. Through leveraging domestic…- Project start date:
- 01/05/2022
- Project end date:
- 01/05/2025
- Crop type:
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- Oats, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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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
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOM2202-002RSX
GRS - (Narelle Nancarrow) Diversity, distribution and epidemiology of yellow dwarf viruses in Victoria
Yellow dwarf viruses (YDVs) are damaging pathogens that cause significant yield and quality losses in cereals worldwide, with studies showing that grain yield is reduced by 1% for every 1% YDV infection. YDVs are transmitted from plant to plant by…- Project start date:
- 01/02/2022
- Project end date:
- 27/11/2025
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Sorghum, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Triticale, (Cereal)
- Cereal Rye, (Cereal)
- Maize, (Cereal)
- Millet, (Cereal)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UMU2111-001RTX
Overcoming constraints to the profitability of cropping systems on ironstone gravel soils within the Southern cropping region of Australia. …
The idea for increased profitability on ironstone gravel soils originated from the Albany and Kwinana west port zone within the western region, however, is it applicable to a wider area of the southern cropping region. Ironstone is a sedimentary…- Project start date:
- 15/11/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2025
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Triticale, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- South, West
Project Status:
Active
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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
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DAW2104-003RTX
Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (Western region)
This project is part of a national disease surveillance program to monitor the changes in pathogen populations for cereals, oilseeds and pulses including their incidence and severity in association with changes in farming practice and other factors…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2024
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DJP2103-005RTX
Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (within the Southern region - Victoria)
This project is part of a national disease surveillance program to monitor the changes in pathogen populations including their incidence and severity in association with changes in farming practice and other factors (such as climatic trends) that…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOA2104-012RTX
Disease surveillance and related diagnostics for the Australian grains industry (within the Southern region - South Australia)
This project is part of a national disease surveillance program to monitor the changes in pathogen populations including their incidence and severity in association with changes in farming practice and other factors (such as climatic trends) that…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2021
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2024
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: IGP2103-001AWX
National Milling Oats Breeding Program
The National Oat Breeding Program, backed by joint $5.4 million investment from the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and AgriFutures Australia over five years, was propelled into a new era under the leadership of commercial…- Project start date:
- 01/03/2021
- Project end date:
- 30/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- Oats, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active