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
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GRDC Code: RDC2004-004OPX
Rural R&D for Profit - Underpinning agricultural productivity and biosecurity by weed biological control
The project will focus on 11 major Australian agricultural and environmental weeds and complete risk assessments of promising biological agents identified, undertake large-scale releases of approved agents and understand interactions between control …- Project start date:
- 16/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 14/07/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CSP2004-007RTX
AgScore: An agricultural approach to assessing the skill of seasonal climate forecasting systems and their value for aiding on-farm…
This project takes an agriculturally focused approach to assessing the skill of seasonal climate forecasting systems and their value for aiding on-farm decision making. It makes use of AgScore - an innovative software tool that provides robust…- Project start date:
- 13/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/12/2021
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CES2004-003RTX
Prevention and preparedness for fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)
The recent establishment of the fall armyworm (FAW; Spodoptera frugiperda) in Australia has created a need for an Australian perspective on potential research activities that will increase the ability of the grains industry to manage this pest. This …- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/10/2020
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: WAN2004-001SAX
Maintaining Profitable Farming Systems with Retained Stubble
This investment aims to provide a platform to extend research from 'The Stubble Initiative', a significant investment by GRDC in the Southern Region, into the Western Region. This will be achieved by creating an industry report on the…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2021
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CES2004-002SAX
Development of identification resources and enhancing diagnostics capacity for High Priority Plant Pests
Increased capability among growers and agronomists to identify exotic pests.Identification of 'early indicators' and development of collection and diagnostic protocols to perform analysis would allow delimiting activities to be directed…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 31/12/2022
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DJP2003-010SAX
Boosting diagnostics for plant production industries
1. Fusarium oxysporum is an important pathogen, rapid and accurate differentiation between the various formae speciales and between the pathogenic and non-virulent strains will assist disease management in the field, diagnostics and biosecurity. The …- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 25/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: SRA2004-001SAX
Advancing techniques for diagnosis of yellow canopy syndrome
This project will engage a PhD student to investigate potential causal agents of yellow canopy syndrome of sugarcane and examine foliar changes during YCS symptom expression, focusing on: The in-field epidemiology and dynamics of both yellow canopy…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 25/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DAS2004-009SAX
Building diagnostic and high throughput surveillance capabilities for high priority pests - Developing pre- and post-entry high throughput…
SARDI proposes to:Develop pre and post entry surveillance capability for exotic cyst nematode species.The project will focus on developing high throughput Taqman MGB assays for selected species, evaluating limit of detection of the assays in field…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 25/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: PFR2004-001SAX
Boosting diagnostic capacity for plant production industries - Using Xanthomonas as a model genus for increasing bacterial diagnostic…
This project will focus on the two themes 'Diagnostic Capacity Building' and 'Enhanced Diagnostic Tools'. Plant & Food Research (PFR) will work closely in collaboration with Australian researchers; the broader diagnostc programme …- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 25/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DPI2004-012SAX
Boosting diagnostic capacity for plant production industries - Using Xanthomonas as a model organism for increasing bacterial capacity
The project will focus on the two themes 'Diagnostic Capacity Building' and 'Enhanced Diagnostic Tools'.Diagnostic Capacity Building will be addressed in two ways: Firstly, this project will help establish our plant bacterial…- Project start date:
- 01/04/2020
- Project end date:
- 25/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed