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: 61 - 70 of 635 search results
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GRDC Code: UOM2404-007RTX
Enhanced efficiency nitrogen fertilisers in the grains industry: an opportunity to reduce GHG emissions and increase Nitrogen Use…
This investment will explore the role of enhanced efficiency fertiliser (EEF) technologies to maximise nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and optimise crop production whilst minimising environmental impacts. There is increasing pressure from markets,…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2024
- Project end date:
- 31/05/2028
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UMU2404-007RTX
Program 1: Enhancing the nutritional quality of narrow-leafed lupin by reducing anti-nutritional seed alkaloid levels.
Narrow-leafed lupin (NLL), commonly known as Australian Sweet Lupin, plays a pivotal role in Australia's agricultural landscape, serving as a cost-effective protein source, disrupting cereal disease cycles in crop rotations, and enriching…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2024
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2028
- Crop type:
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- Lupins, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: CSP2403-017RTX
Sandy Soils II: Management to sustain production potential in the low to medium rainfall environments of the Southern cropping region
In the southern cropping region of Australia (including South Australia and Victoria) a three-component program to tackle key challenges of 1) where, how and when to ameliorate sands; 2) evidence-based strategic and tactical management to sustain…- Project start date:
- 25/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: CUR2403-003RTX
Towards developing improved resistance to BGM in chickpea and lentil.
Botrytis grey mould (BGM), caused by Botrytis cinerea in chickpea and B. cinerea and B. fabae in lentils, poses a significant biotic stress challenge to Australian pulse production. While some Australian lentil varieties show moderate resistance to…- Project start date:
- 22/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 01/03/2027
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: PCG2403-003SAX
Research Data Capture & Storage BAU Transition
The service provider will develop a scope of work and implementation plan to integrate data management, including quality assurance into GRDC's Investment Operating Model to optimise operational performance and overall effectiveness and ensure…- Project start date:
- 19/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: KYA2403-002SAX
CRM Refinement Work
Contacts in the GRDC CRM with the target audience growers, advisers and agribusiness were matched against Kynetec's KIRE Farmers database.- Project start date:
- 18/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 29/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOM2310-004RSX
GRS 2024 (Lillian Hearn) - Relationship between soil moisture and carbon availability on denitrification potential in dryland cropping…
Tracing the fate of fertiliser nitrogen (N) in Victorian cropping systems has revealed that up to 54% of applied N is 'unaccounted' for at crop maturity. Denitrification is suspected to be the dominant mechanism driving N loss in these…- Project start date:
- 18/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOQ2403-012RTX
Genetic initiative to transform symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Australian pulse crops
Legume pulses, including chickpea, lentil, field pea, fababean, lupin and mungbean, are a valuable part of the grains industry in Australia because of their protein rich seeds and their ability to capture atmospheric nitrogen for growth, via…- Project start date:
- 18/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2028
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UMU2403-009RTX
Achieving improved genetic gain for yield in chickpea, faba bean and lentil using genetic diversity
The low profitability of some pulse production in Australia can be addressed by enhancing crop productivity, in addition to creating markets. Chickpea, lentil and faba bean production encounter challenges due to limited genetic diversity, resulting…- Project start date:
- 15/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 19/03/2029
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: GLN2403-001BGX
Grains at the Table: a pathway to prioritising grains and plant proteins in Australian diets
The Grains Legume and Nutrition will undertake evidence-based research including literature reviews and surveys using its connection across the value chain aimed at producing fact-based report on the trends, and use of Australian pulse crops as…- Project start date:
- 15/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2026
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active