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: 521 - 530 of 823 search results
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GRDC Code: UOA2007-007RTX
Developing strategies to mitigate and manage resistance to key herbicides
The overarching objective of this project is to provide new knowledge on the mechanisms and inheritance of herbicide resistance in key grain cropping weeds in Australia. Regionally effective strategies to manage and mitigate new herbicide resistance …- Project start date:
- 01/07/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Oats, (Cereal)
- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Chickpeas, (Legume)
- Faba/Broad Beans, (Legume)
- Field Peas, (Legume)
- Lupins, (Legume)
- Lentils, (Legume)
- Vetch, (Legume)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: UWA2007-001SAX
WeedSmart 2020-2025
WeedSmart is an industry-led, extension and communication initiative designed to improve weed management practices on Australian farms and ensure the long-term sustainability of herbicide use. Initially launched to tackle the problem of herbicide…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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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:
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- 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
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GRDC Code: DAQ2007-004RMX
Northern Farming Systems - Integrating research solutions for improving profitability in summer dominated rainfall systems
Previous work has highlighted that there is a significant gap between potential and current cropping system efficiency and profitability in the grain growing regions of New South Wales and Queensland.This project will compare the key production…- Project start date:
- 01/07/2020
- Project end date:
- 31/10/2025
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North
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GRDC Code: GOA2006-001RTX
Agronomic management of weeds, crop nutrition and farming practices in central west NSW to maximise crop profitability
The services are to facilitate the delivery and validation of past and current key research findings across the CNSW sub-region.- Project start date:
- 30/06/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2025
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North
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GRDC Code: HPS2006-001OPX
More profitable crops on highly calcareous soils by improving early vigour and overcoming soil constraints
Highly calcareous soils provide a range of constraints to crop production which are limiting the effectiveness of improved agronomic practices; early crop vigour is poor and crop production continues to be limited to very low WUEs. Constraints…- Project start date:
- 15/06/2020
- Project end date:
- 01/05/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- South
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GRDC Code: CSP2006-011RTX
Grains Sector GHG Baseline and Mitigation Project
International grain markets are increasingly demanding that the climate implications of grain production be accounted for. This investment will inform efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of Australian grain production.The…- Project start date:
- 01/06/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/10/2021
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
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GRDC Code: SCN2005-001SAX
Understanding return on investment of sub-surface water management options for waterlogged areas in the Western Region
Established in early 2021, the South Coast NRM (SCNRM) led project in Sub-Surface Drainage investigates methods of managing waterlogging within the Esperance Port Zone through the use of slotted pipe buried at depth. Since installation SCNRM has…- Project start date:
- 06/05/2020
- Project end date:
- 31/05/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- West
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GRDC Code: SCF2005-001SAX
Understanding return on investment of sub-surface water management options for waterlogged areas in the Western Region (Albany Port Zone)
Established in early 2021, the Stirlings to Coast Farmers (SCF) GRDC Sub-Surface Drainage project investigates methods of managing waterlogging within the Albany Port Zone through the use of slotted pipe buried at depth. Since installation,…- Project start date:
- 04/05/2020
- Project end date:
- 31/05/2024
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- West
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GRDC Code: UOQ2005-012RTX
Program 3: Screening of diverse barley germplasm for rapid discovery and utilisation of novel disease resistance in barley novel using…
The three barley pathogens, that cause spot form of net blotch (SFNB), net form of net blotch (NFNB), and Scald are genetically and pathogenically diverse. They reproduce sexually, rapidly develop new virulences and overcome genetic resistance,…- Project start date:
- 01/05/2020
- Project end date:
- 15/02/2024
- Crop type:
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- Barley, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North, South, West