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: 411 - 420 of 823 search results
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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:
- 01/05/2025
- 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: MQU2202-001RSX
GRS - (Nikki Van de Weyer) What triggers house mouse outbreaks in Australian cropping systems: Understanding the role of social structures…
House mice are a significant eruptive pest that causes economic damage to all stages of the grain crop production. More research is needed to provide information on understanding and predicting eruptions that enable grain growers to minimise…- Project start date:
- 01/02/2022
- Project end date:
- 31/05/2025
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UWA2202-002RSX
GRS - (Samantha Harvie) Measuring protein storage efficiency during wheat grain development to optimize decision making in late nitrogen…
It has been recently established that the application of nitrogen fertilisers across the Western Australian wheat belt can increase wheat grain yield and protein content simultaneously under specific types of nitrogen management involving in season…- Project start date:
- 01/02/2022
- Project end date:
- 01/02/2026
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: SPA2201-001SAX
NGN Precision fertiliser decisions in a tight economic climate
This project is a natural extension to the previous Hands-on Precision Ag Training workshops. It will assist growers to better manage input prices, maximise on-farm productivity/environmental efficiencies and build economic resilience within their…- Project start date:
- 14/01/2022
- Project end date:
- 15/12/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOQ2201-005RTX
Do seed treatments have a role in Fusarium management in mungbean?
There are no commercially viable methods for removing long lived Fusarium pathogens from the soil, however the cotton industry has shown that farm hygiene practices, genetics and agronomic management are effective management tools for minimising the …- Project start date:
- 10/01/2022
- Project end date:
- 28/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- Mungbeans, (Legume)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: CSP2201-005RTX
NGN Better summer weed management decisions in southern and western Australia
Despite research and researchers promoting the importance and high expected returns of summer weed control it is clearly observed that substantial areas of summer weeds remain uncontrolled by growers. In the limited studies involving mainly…- Project start date:
- 07/01/2022
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- South, West
Project Status:
Active
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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:
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- Sorghum, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: ACO2201-003SAX
NGN - Farming Water - a technical manual to increase grower and adviser use of plant available water dynamics in agronomic decision making.
By 30 December 2023, growers and advisers have technical resources in a form that increases their understanding of water availability, use and loss across the farming systems and how it's effective management can used to guide agronomic…- Project start date:
- 01/01/2022
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CRP2201-001SAX
NGN Weed control in high standing residue systems in the Northern Ag Region of WA
In the Northern Agricultural Zone (NAR) in WA there are many growers already implementing either disc seeding or stripper front harvest, with a few implementing the complete "strip and disc" system. The heat, sunshine and wind in this zone …- Project start date:
- 01/01/2022
- Project end date:
- 30/04/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Active
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GRDC Code: UOA2201-002RTX
NGN Identifying potassium responsive soils and best practice application of K in the MRZ and HRZ of the Southern Region
This investment is designed to collect and collate data from a range of different soil types under plus and minus K fertiliser treatments to validate K responsiveness, and look to ascertain if current critical K values re accurate across all soil…- Project start date:
- 01/01/2022
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Completed