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New digital ag innovations to map soil constraints in 3D
19.10.2022A new research and development project is underway to develop products to help growers map their soil constraints in three dimensions across the paddock.
Region: National
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Keeping crops a head above water
17.10.2022With wet conditions saturating large areas of crop production land across Victoria and Tasmania, a GRDC project is identifying ways to maximise crop performance when waterlogging occurs.
Region: South
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$9.3 million invested to reduce frost and heat impact on farm
17.10.2022The project, ‘Frost and Heat Management Analytics’, which was launched in partnership with Australia’s leading science agency, CSIRO, will use both existing data and new research to gain a more precise understanding of how heat and frost
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Improving productivity on South Australia’s ironstone gravel soils
14.10.2022Occurring on 2 million hectares of agricultural land across South Australia and Western Australia, ironstone gravels have limited capacity to hold moisture and nutrients that prevents them being as productive as they could be.
Region: South
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GRDC grower study tour delivers insights on hybrid canola
13.10.2022With high demand for canola seed in WA in recent seasons as well as uncertainty over the supply of seed, the study tour gave growers an in-depth understanding of the process for seed producers to bring hybrid canola seed to market.
Region: West
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Prepare to minimise fire risk this harvest
11.10.2022Harvester fires can damage equipment, destroy crops and infrastructure and endanger life.
Region: West
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Crop protection forum in Wagga
10.10.2022The nation’s leading experts on insecticide, fungicide and herbicide resistance will be part of the forum, which has the theme of ‘don’t stop thinking about tomorrow’.
Region: North
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Samples sought to understand Rutherglen bug dynamics
10.10.2022Rutherglen bug is a migratory native species that causes occasional but significant damage to the grains industry. Impacted grain crops include sunflower, sorghum, canola, and safflower. In years of significant RGB populations, pulses and cereals
Region: West
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Growers must be proactive to manage increased stripe rust pressure
10.10.2022Predictions of a high-pressure stripe rust season have well and truly come to fruition, with inoculum extremely high across the Eastern Australian wheat belt. Growers have been urged to focus on being proactive with management, especially prior to
Region: North
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Lupin establishment project sows seeds for success
05.10.2022Results from a two-year project to help lupin growers in Western Australia maximise establishment, yields and grain quality and reduce incidence of split seed have been released.
Region: West