GRDC Investments

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• GRDC Code: UOQ2201-009RSX

  GRS - (Genevieve Durrington) Advancing crop growth simulation capabilities for optimising crop grain yield

  Sorghum is the biggest summer cereal crop in Australia. Sorghum yield is highly variable, depending on stored soil water, in-season rainfall, and the pattern of crop water use across the growth cycle. The key to the intensification of sorghum…

  Project start date:

  03/01/2022

  Project end date:

  30/06/2025

  Crop type:

  • Sorghum, (Cereal)

  Region:

  North

  Project Status: Active
• GRDC Code: UOQ2109-004RMX

  Reducing lodging risk in sorghum to increase grower confidence and profitability

  Sorghum production in Australia averages 2,000,000 tonnes annually with a value of between $400M to $500M. It is the largest summer crop in Australia and our fourth largest crop overall, by tonnage and value. One of the most significant constraints…

  Project start date:

  01/09/2021

  Project end date:

  30/06/2027

  Crop type:

  • Sorghum, (Cereal)

  Region:

  North

  Project Status: Active
• GRDC Code: DAQ2107-002RTX

  Establish Australian economic management thresholds for fall armyworm in maize (rainfed and irrigated) and sorghum

  Sorghum and maize crops across Queensland Gulf, Tablelands and Burdekin regions in the 2019-20 season experienced injury and yield losses from FAW, a major pest new to Australia.This project proposes, for the first time in Australia, to bring…

  Project start date:

  01/07/2021

  Project end date:

  30/06/2025

  Crop type:

  • Maize, (Cereal)
  • Sorghum, (Cereal)

  Region:

  North, South, West

  Project Status: Active
• 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

  Project Status: Completed
• 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

  Project Status: Active
• 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:

  • 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

  Project Status: Active
• GRDC Code: UOQ2003-011RTX

  INVITA - A technology and analytics platform for improving variety selection

  The INVITA AU project, leveraged off a similar existing initiative in Europe, will develop a platform for improving variety selection by accessing and developing enabling technologies and analytics solutions that will be deployed within National…

  Project start date:

  04/03/2020

  Project end date:

  31/12/2024

  Crop type:

  • Wheat, (Cereal)
  • Barley, (Cereal)
  • Sorghum, (Cereal)
  • Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)

  Region:

  North, South, West

  Project Status: Active
• 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

  Project Status: Completed
• GRDC Code: UOQ2002-008RTX

  Machine learning applied to high-throughput feature extraction from imagery to map spatial variability

  This project uses Machine Learning to develop high-throughput phenotyping (HTP) of crop canopy features. Plant images from the many project partners train machine learning models for this. The model training is done using the Weiner supercomputer at …

  Project start date:

  17/02/2020

  Project end date:

  30/06/2022

  Crop type:

  • Wheat, (Cereal)
  • Barley, (Cereal)
  • Sorghum, (Cereal)
  • Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)

  Region:

  North, South, West

  Project Status: Completed
• GRDC Code: USQ1907-001RTX

  Integrated disease management tools to manage summer crop diseases in the northern region

  This investment aims to reduce costs and losses attributable to endemic, emerging and exotic crop diseases in the GRDCs Northern Region by providing research, extension and training to improve grower management of crop diseases. The project will…

  Project start date:

  01/07/2019

  Project end date:

  30/09/2020

  Crop type:

  • Sorghum, (Cereal)

  Region:

  North

  Project Status: Completed