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: 691 - 700 of 823 search results
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GRDC Code: UWA1806-008SAX
Soil Quality iBook
The Soil Quality ebook series is an output of the SoilsWest alliance between the University of Western Australia and the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, with contributions from other collaborators and individuals. It is…- Project start date:
- 01/06/2018
- Project end date:
- 23/09/2022
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOQ1805-005RTX
Post-doctoral Fellowship - Interfacing crop improvement and agronomy/ nutrition programs
This investment will explore the interactions between stratified or banded nutrients and root morphology, with a specific focus on deep root development and crop exploitation of subsoil moisture reserves.The goal is to quantify the impact of…- Project start date:
- 30/05/2018
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2022
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Canola/Rapeseed, (Oilseed)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UOA1805-017RTX
Increasing the effectiveness of nitrogen fixation in pulse crops through development of improved rhizobial strains, inoculation and crop…
Expansion of the pulse industry is seeing crops increasingly sown on soils that are challenging to plant establishment and growth. In these areas, pulses are often grown in the paddock for the first time or, have been infrequently grown and are…- Project start date:
- 30/05/2018
- Project end date:
- 22/08/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Pulses, (Legume)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: UMU1805-001RMX
Boosting profit and reducing risk on mixed farms in low and medium rainfall areas with newly discovered legume pastures enabled by…
The Dryland Legume Pasture Systems project successfully achieved its goal of discovering and commercialising new legume pastures for mixed farms in low and medium rainfall areas that can be enabled by innovative management methods.The project has…- Project start date:
- 22/05/2018
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2022
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: DAS1805-003RMX
Boosting profit and reducing risk on mixed farms in low and medium rainfall areas with newly discovered legume pastures enabled by…
The Dryland Legumes Pasture Systems Project was undertaken to improve the quality of annual pastures on mixed farms in areas receiving less than 450 mm annual rainfall in SA, Victoria and sNSW. Regional evaluation on neutral/alkaline sandy loam…- Project start date:
- 10/05/2018
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2022
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: MLA1805-001OPX
Rural R&D for Profit-16-13-007 Forewarned is forearmed: managing the impacts of extreme climate events
Forewarned is forearmed focussed on helping growers manage the impacts of extreme weather events. The project had four work packages, which are: user needs and forecast system development; extreme event forecast products; farmer and advisor…- Project start date:
- 05/05/2018
- Project end date:
- 01/05/2022
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: BWD1805-006SAX
Supporting the sustainable use of insecticides and local on-farm implementation of integrated pest management strategies in the GRDC…
-Pest management in the southern grains region relies heavily on the use of broad-spectrum insecticides which are inexpensive thus wide-spread in use. However, the increasing incidence of insecticide resistance demonstrates a need for more…- Project start date:
- 01/05/2018
- Project end date:
- 01/12/2020
- Crop type:
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- Not Crop Specific, (Not Crop Specific)
- Region:
- South
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: HIA1805-001OPX
Commonwealth Grant - Improving Plant Pest Management Through Cross Industry Deployment of Smart Sensor, Diagnostics and Forecasting
This is GRDC's contribution to the iMapPESTS (cross-industry Rural R&D4P) program managed by HIA.More information about this can be found at www.imappests.com.au- Project start date:
- 01/05/2018
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CWF1804-001SAX
Improving grower profits through longer season wheat crops
Demonstration and extension of the work of BLG104 (Optimising grain yield potential of winter cereal in the NGR, Felicity Harris, NSW DPI) and ULA9175069 (Development of crop management packages for early sown, slow developing winter wheats in the…- Project start date:
- 16/04/2018
- Project end date:
- 28/02/2021
- Crop type:
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- Wheat, (Cereal)
- Region:
- North
Project Status:
Completed
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GRDC Code: CSP1804-012RTX
Determining the effectiveness of zinc phosphide rodenticide bait in the presence of alternative food supply
This investment is focussed on providing growers and the broader Australian grains industry practical advice to improve the effectiveness of the rodenticide bait, zinc phosphide. Zinc phosphide rodenticide baits have been registered for use in crop…- Project start date:
- 02/04/2018
- Project end date:
- 30/06/2023
- Crop type:
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- All Crops, (All Crops)
- Region:
- North, South, West
Project Status:
Completed