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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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: 11 - 20 of 761 search results
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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:
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
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GRDC Code: FGI2403-001SAX
NGN - Evaluating deep sowing of Oats in WA production systems
There has been a trend for increasing summer rain and later autumn sowing breaks throughout the WA wheatbelt. Potential utilisation of soil moisture stored below conventional sowing depths, potentially give growers the opportunity to increase yield…- Project start date:
- 11/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 15/05/2027
- Crop type:
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- Oats, (Cereal)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: GGL2403-002FAX
Grains Materiality Study
GRDC to co-invest in the 2024 Grains materiality study commissioned for the Grain Sustainability Framework (GSF) by GrainGrowers. The study will be conducted in tandem with the Australian Agricultural Sustainability Framework (AASF) 2024 materiality …- Project start date:
- 01/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- 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: CSP2403-014RTX
Cereal rust isolate categorisation proof-of-concept
Cereal rust diseases are caused by pathogenic fungi that often evolve rapidly into new virulent strains that render the genetic resistance in crops ineffective. This project aims to identify virulence genes in rust fungi that allow them to overcome…- Project start date:
- 01/03/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/03/2027
- Crop type:
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- Cereal Rye, (Cereal)
- Triticale, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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: UCS2402-001RSX
GRS 2024 (Jordan Bathgate) - Improving physiological understanding and crop yield of early sown wheat genotypes under constrained…
This project aims to quantify the historical genetic gains in harvest index and grain yield of Australian winter wheats and to determine opportunities to further lift the yield frontier of winter wheats. This will be done by improving understanding…- Project start date:
- 26/02/2024
- Project end date:
- 30/07/2027
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: SQU2402-002SAX
Content Audit and Inventory
As identified in GRDC's Digital Strategy 2022-26, the website content will be inventoried and audited for findability, usability and relevance. This work is being undertaken by an external UX (usability) expert and includes the use of analytics…- Project start date:
- 12/02/2024
- Project end date:
- 29/03/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOQ2402-010RTX
Fast tracking deployment of chickpea heat tolerance to develop chickpea varieties with improved high temperature tolerance
Chickpea is the most important pulse crop in Australian farming systems and the largest in terms of production, cultivated area and export. High temperature is a threat to current and future chickpea production, impacting both yield and grain…- Project start date:
- 12/02/2024
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2028
- Crop type:
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- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: MGP2402-002RTX
Determination of Alternaria Leaf Spot incidence within canola cultivars
Determination of Alternaria Leaf Spot incidence within canola cultivars A two-year project conducted by GRDC and Marcroft Grains Pathology aims to investigate the incidence and severity of Alternaria infection in Australian canola crops, as well as…- Project start date:
- 01/02/2024
- Project end date:
- 31/03/2026
- Crop type:
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- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active