Current opportunities
Current opportunities
Listed are the opportunities currently available. Prospective tenderers are encouraged to read the Terms and Conditions before applying.
Request for Tender Terms and Conditions apply to all RFT’s where tenderers are required to submit an application.
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Reference number: PROC-9177126 RFT
Development of genetic selection tools for improved canola acid soils tolerance - Phase 2
Canola is Australia's third largest crop by value and the most important break crop for cereal production. At low pH exchangeable aluminium (Al3+), manganese (Mn3+) and hydrogen (H+) ions get solubilised into a solution form. Canola in Western Australia is mostly grown on sandy-textured soils, which are prone to acidity and contain Aluminium ions at concentrations that are toxic to the plant and at concentrations > 10 mg/kg below 10cm can reduce yield by > 50% in low rainfall environments. Aluminium can rapidly inhibit root growth at micromolar concentrations New canola varieties with soil acid tolerance can support management approaches such as liming to significantly raise canola production on acidic soils in regions with soil pH < 4.8 at 10cm. This includes large areas of Western Australia and significant grain production hectares in South East NSW, Wimmera and Central Vic, Southern Vic, Tasmania, Lower EP, York Peninsula, Mid North SA and Southern SA. Whilst surface acidity can be ameliorated by applying lime, it is more challenging to incorporate lime deeper and can take several years before these soils are productive.
Closing date and timeFriday 20 December 2024, at 02:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateThursday 24 October 2024Last updatedThursday 24 October 2024
Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177144 RFT
Minimising the economic impact of key pests: earwigs, millipedes, and slaters
Earwigs, millipedes, and slaters are pests increasingly causing significant damage to grain crops in Australia. Changing farming practices, like increased stubble retention and reduced tillage, have contributed to the rising prevalence of these pests, yet effective control options remain limited. Growers often struggle to predict when and where pest outbreaks will occur, and current management practices do not always provide reliable results. To address these challenges, GRDC is investing to develop targeted, practical solutions for managing these pests in grain crops. The successful tenderer will be expected to conduct innovative research that closes knowledge gaps, deliver practical pest management strategies, and provide tools to help growers make informed decisions about pest control. Key activities will include conducting trials to better understand pest behaviour and life cycles, developing forecasting tools to predict outbreaks, and creating integrated management strategies that combine chemical and non-chemical control options. Close collaboration with an advisory group of growers and agronomists will ensure that the strategies developed are practical and field-tested. Educational resources and tools, such as identification guides and decision-support tools, will also be developed to assist growers and advisers in effectively managing pest risks. The ultimate goal is to help Australian grain growers reduce crop losses, improve profitability, and ensure sustainable farming practices by providing reliable and adaptable pest control solutions.
Closing date and timeThursday 21 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 21 October 2024Last updatedMonday 21 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177143 RFT
Communication and Extension - Weed Management Initiative
Weeds are a major threat to the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of Australian agriculture, recently estimated to cost $4.1 billion annually in crop losses and control measures. This investment seeks delivery of weed management strategies, nationally, to ensure Australian grain growers have continuing access to innovative, diverse, and cost reducing options. The Weed Management Initiative (WMI) is a federated model, with nodes across each Grain Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) region, aiming to deliver advanced weed management practices to Australian grain growers. It consists of five key programs covering weed management, herbicide resistance from evolutionary dynamics to practical mitigation strategies, communication, and capacity building. The initiative will foster collaboration among research institutions, ensuring long-term investment and efforts in weed science. The WMI's communication, extension, and adoption program is central to its success, focusing on effectively disseminating research outputs and facilitating their adoption by growers. This program will integrate social science methodologies to drive practice changes and measure the impact of extension efforts. Additionally, it will collaborate with the Australian Analytics for the Grains Industry (AAGI) to assess the effectiveness of its communication and extension activities. The WMI emphasizes regional responsiveness, practical demonstrations, and timely delivery of cutting-edge weed management information to growers.
Closing date and timeThursday 21 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 21 October 2024Last updatedMonday 21 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177140 RFT
Coordination – Weed Management Initiative
Weeds are a major threat to the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of Australian agriculture, recently estimated to cost $4.1 billion annually in crop losses and control measures. This investment seeks delivery of weed management strategies, nationally, to ensure Australian grain growers have continuing access to innovative, diverse, and cost reducing options. The Weed Management Initiative (WMI) is a federated model, with nodes across each Grain Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) region, aiming to deliver advanced weed management practices to Australian grain growers. It consists of five key programs covering weed management, herbicide resistance from evolutionary dynamics to practical mitigation strategies, communication, and capacity building. The initiative will foster collaboration among research institutions, ensuring long-term investment and efforts in weed science. A coordination role will facilitate the WMI activities, travel and reporting.
Closing date and timeThursday 21 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateFriday 18 October 2024Last updatedThursday 24 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177138 RFT
A review of GRDC’s historic and current grain legume D&E investment
There have been four major demonstration and extension investments running since 2020 which have linked to the National pulse adaptability investment (NAPA). These projects have been conducting small plot and paddock scale trials to improve the agronomic understanding of how to the reduce the economic yield gap of grain legume crops. The project teams have also been undertaking economic analysis of the trial data to ensure growers can see the economic value of grain legumes to their overall farm profitability, both in the year of crop and the benefits to following crops. This consultancy is required to review the current projects, analyse the impact of the projects and offer suggestions for the pathway forward in pulse investments for GRDC. The consultancy will be open tender to evaluate the market for organisations able to undertake reviews of this style of investments.
Closing date and timeFriday 22 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateFriday 18 October 2024Last updatedFriday 18 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177133 RFT
Cold plasma treatment of wheat and canola for enhanced plant growth, vigour and yield
Crop establishment is a critical phase in the production cycle as successful crop growth, development and yield are dependent on its success. Poor emergence and uneven establishment reduces crop growth and yield. During germination and emergence seeds may be subject to stresses such as soil water availability, soil-borne pathogens and pests. Similarly growing plants are also exposed to biotic and abiotic stresses. Finding ways to mitigate these negative impacts and potentially increasing yields offers growers a means of reducing their reliance on chemical products and achieving greater profitability. The use of cold plasma (CP) technology in this regard offers such a solution.
Closing date and timeWednesday 27 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateWednesday 16 October 2024Last updatedThursday 24 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: RFT-2024-NoLox1219 RFT
Commercialisation of NoLox 1219 soybean variety
GRDC is seeking applications to licence a new soybean variety, NoLox 1219 for commercialisation in Australia. NoLox 1219 is a new soybean variety bred for human consumption markets.
Closing date and timeMonday 18 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 14 October 2024Last updatedTuesday 15 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177131 RFT
Development of soil water repellency management options for Australian grain growers
Soil water repellency (SWR) is a condition that makes soils temporarily resist wetting, restricting water availability for crops. SWR is associated with the presence of organic material in the soil, with incidence and severity influenced by plant type and species, crop rotation, stubble load and breakdown. SWR affects more than 5M hectares in Western and Southern Australia and costs growers an estimated $100 million per annum through reduced yield due to reduced crop germination, nutrient storage and availability, and plant-available water. Currently growers use expensive and challenging techniques to manage SWR, such as strategic tillage, spading ($150/ha on average conducted every 3-5 years), clay application ($800/ha on average conducted once) on or near row seeding or annual applications of wetters (up to $22/ha applied annually). Given the unpredictable and transient nature of SWR alongside a lack of understanding where and when to target soil amelioration, wetters are applied as an insurance option, despite current wetter chemistry being inadequate to overcome SWR and under certain instances could be exacerbating the issue. The outcome of this proposed research will allow growers to better manage and mitigate the impact of SWR through increased understanding of crop and pasture species, stubble, and farming systems on the expression of SWR, in contrasting seasons and soil types.
Closing date and timeMonday 18 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateFriday 11 October 2024Last updatedFriday 11 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177134 RFT
NGN: Flannel bush (Solanum lasiophyllum) and wild tomato/round-leaved solanum (Solanum orbiculatum) management in the NAR
Flannel bush and wild tomato, both native Solanum species, are increasingly impacting mixed livestock operations and continuous croppers in the low-rainfall region north of Geraldton. These thorny, woody shrubs, characterised by thick, hairy leaves, spread primarily through root fragments. In continuous cropping systems, including canola and lupins, these weeds are well-managed. However, they proliferate quickly when paddocks revert to pasture or fallow and are not effectively controlled during the cereal phase of the farming system. The challenge for growers, particularly in a drying climate, is that they often rely on a fallow-cereal rotation, with opportunistic planting of canola or legumes when conditions allow. This approach has contributed to the spread and persistence of these weeds. Farmers dealing with flannel bush and wild tomato have tried various herbicide and adjuvant combinations with limited success, as the weeds tend to regrow even after significant brownout from herbicide application. Anecdotal evidence suggests that mechanical control methods (i.e. Kelly chains etc) may help manage this weed, but these approaches have not yet been scientifically tested or documented. Growers are seeking effective management strategies to control these persistent weeds.
Closing date and timeTuesday 05 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateTuesday 08 October 2024Last updatedWednesday 09 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9176677 RFP
GrainData Fusion
The GRDC Data Catalogue is as useful as the number of datasets that it references. To prepare the catalogue for release, GRDC’s Data Partnerships initiative registered around 700 records with the catalogue. Now that the GRDC Data Catalogue is publicly accessible, GRDC is encouraging its partners and the general public to use and contribute to the catalogue through further investment in data curation, aggregation and analysis. The GrainData Fusion investment is designed to leverage the public release of the GRDC Data Catalogue to increase the scope of data assets it references while demonstrating the power of FAIR data to facilitate powerful analyses.
Closing date and timeFriday 22 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateWednesday 02 October 2024Last updatedTuesday 22 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177123 RFT
National Grain Storage Development and Extension (NGSE)
This investment focuses on expanding and improving on-farm grain storage, improving maintenance scheduling for storage infrastructure, improving best management practices to protect stored grain from insects, fungi, and mice, enhance product pricing through segregation and cleaning, reduce harvest freight costs, and improve health and safety practices. To achieve these goals, various extension approaches will be employed, including participatory action learning workshops, economic calculators, industry-based case studies, communication materials like factsheets, podcasts, presentations, webinars, and videos. Additionally, grower access to the 1800 WEEVEL support line and collaboration with the 'National resistance monitoring and management of stored grain pests' investment are crucial to this project.
Closing date and timeTuesday 29 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 30 September 2024Last updatedMonday 30 September 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177086 RFT
Sorghum National Variety Trials 2025-2028
NVT’s purpose is to provide grain growers and their advisors with comparative information on yield performance and grain quality of commercially available grain varieties that is independent, consistent, timely, and accurate to assist in varietal decision making and accelerate the adoption of superior varieties.
Closing date and timeWednesday 06 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateWednesday 25 September 2024Last updatedTuesday 22 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177073 EOI
Sponsorship - Grower and advisor study tours - round one 2025
We are passionate about the Australian grains industry and recognise the value in grower, researcher and industry engagement. A well planned study tour can provide lessons on issues relevant to participants and accelerate the uptake of research and development (R&D) outputs. Ultimately, improving the profitability and sustainability of grain growing operations.
Closing date and timeMonday 20 January 2025, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 23 September 2024Last updatedMonday 23 September 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177112 RFT
Addressing emerging nutrient limitations in the Australian grains industry for improved fertiliser management of potassium (K)
Australia has a negative potassium (K) balance with approximately 3 times more K removed from the system than applied across agricultural areas. Increasing instances of K deficiency on heavier textured soils has been seen and how best to manage this issue has been raised at NGN forums. Building on the current body or research and linking to existing investment in the Western region, this investment will target two key components that require RD&E to improve growers' confidence in K fertiliser management to maximise return on investment (ROI): (1) the tools required to identify paddocks and regions at risk of K deficiency across diverse soil types (different CEC levels and mineralogy) in the GRDC Southern and Northern regions, and (2) fertiliser management strategies tailored to soil types and climatic regions (K rate, placement and formulation) to match crop demand with nutrient availability and maximise ROI.
Closing date and timeThursday 31 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 23 September 2024Last updatedThursday 24 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177119 RFT
Development of a Soil Health Framework for Australian agricultural production systems
Healthy soils underpin high performing, efficient and profitable agricultural production systems. The value capture opportunities for protecting and/or enhancing soil health on-farm include; increased production/yield, improved input use efficiencies and reduced costs, access to existing or emerging markets (and potential price premiums), access to (cheaper) finance, enhanced natural capital and potential biodiversity and/or carbon credit schemes. A key gap for Australian producers to capture value is the lack of a common definition and approach for quantifying, monitoring and reporting soil health against relevant benchmarks. An integrated Soil Health Framework that defines soil health and provides measurable, interpretable, and decision-useful indicators will generate the evidence base for sustainable soil management practices that enable producers to measure, monitor, manage and report the status of their soil health, thereby demonstrating their sustainability credentials whilst driving more resilient and profitable production systems. Importantly, a standard approach across the agricultural industry, that is practical, cost-effective and appropriate for Australian conditions, provides an opportunity to set the agenda and future-proof Australian agricultural production systems, ensuring Australian producers remain competitive in an increasingly challenging global market and changing climate.
Closing date and timeMonday 28 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 16 September 2024Last updatedThursday 17 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177120 RFT
CRRDC Impact Assessment Guidelines Refresh
A robust impact assessment methodology is fundamental in supporting good governance, accountability and transparency to RDC stakeholders. The CRRDC Impact Assessment Guidelines and associated Procedures (2018) set out a standardised approach for individual RDCs to assess the impact of their investment, with the aim to continually improve the assessment itself and permit for aggregation of these assessments across the 15 Rural RDCs. On behalf of the Council of Rural Research and Development Corporations (CRRDC), GRDC will engage a suitably qualified and experienced consultancy firm to review the CRRDC Impact Assessment Guidelines & Procedures. A report will be delivered that includes key findings and recommendations for consideration by CRRDC, informing possible amendments to existing Impact Assessment Guidelines and Procedures to ensure continued transparency and accountability for expenditures.
Closing date and timeMonday 21 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 16 September 2024Last updatedMonday 14 October 2024
Tender status: Closed
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Reference number: PROC-9177115 RFT
Resistance Management in the Green Peach Aphid: Integrated Surveillance and Strategic Response
This investment proposal is a strategic follow-on to CES2001-001RTX "Insecticide resistance in the green peach aphid: national surveillance preparedness and implications for virus management" which concluded in June 2024. Building upon the foundational knowledge and methodologies established by this project, the proposed investment aims to advance the management of Green peach aphids (GPA) and their resistance to insecticides. This investment is crucial for grain growers to stay in business and to lower the cost of control by reducing insecticide application failures. Effective management strategies will prevent significant yield losses and economic damage due to GPA and Turnip Yellows Virus (TuYV).
Closing date and timeWednesday 06 November 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateMonday 16 September 2024Last updatedMonday 16 September 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177109 RFP
Technical innovations to improve OH&S outcomes
The Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) is committed to advancing Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) within the Australian grains industry in response to its evolving nature. While significant progress has been made, as evidenced by the decline in non-intentional farm-related injury deaths over the past two decades, recent findings, such as those from the 2024 FarmSafe Report, highlight areas where further improvements can be achieved. These insights have underscored the need for step changes in safety outcomes, particularly in the face of increasing complexity and scale in modern agricultural operations.
Closing date and timeFriday 18 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateWednesday 11 September 2024Last updatedTuesday 24 September 2024 Tender status: Closed
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Reference number: PROC-9177097 RFT
GRDC International Visiting Fellowships Program 2024/25
GRDC International Visiting Fellowships Program (IVFP) is targeted at supporting Australian grains researchers connecting with new partners by providing more opportunities for talented young international researchers to engage with talented early/mid-career Australian researchers.This will be achieved by bringing international research talent to Australia on a sabbatical program to bolster grains-focussed national and regional research efforts targeted at predominantly GRDC prioritised pillars. The IVFP will facilitate improved connection of the best early and mid-career researchers in Australia and overseas to ensure enduring global scientific networks that promote the transfer of knowledge and technology for the benefit of the Australian grains industry.Further, the GRDC IVFP would address a current gap available for Australian travel awards with the Fulbright program targeting researchers at a more junior level (post-doctoral scholarship) or senior level (Scholar Awards), and other programs targeting established researchers at a more senior level than the proposed GRDC IVFP.
Closing date and timeThursday 31 October 2024, at 02:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateWednesday 11 September 2024Last updatedWednesday 16 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9176899 RFT
GRDC Early/Mid-career Research Fellow Call 2024/25
The GRDC is focused on delivering value to Australian grain growers. To achieve this, the GRDC seeks to establish a GRDC Research Fellowship Program to build excellence in research capacity by supporting Early and Mid-career researchers in greater innovation and over-the-horizon approaches to creating enduring grower profitability.
Closing date and timeThursday 31 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateFriday 06 September 2024Last updatedFriday 25 October 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177104 RFT
High throughput phenotyping methods for functional quality traits in wheat
GRDC is inviting innovative applications to develop a cutting-edge high-throughput technology for screening wheat grain and dough for quality traits. While previous efforts have successfully identified certain grain quality traits, this tender seeks to push the boundaries further. We are looking for proposals that can pioneer a technical method or create an instrument prototype capable of predicting not only dough quality but also, potentially, baking quality. This technology should seamlessly integrate with genomic selection tools to ensure easy adoption and use by breeders within breeding programs. This investment encourages collaboration among breeders, food technologists, and technical experts to foster a multidisciplinary approach. Additionally, partnerships with international organizations are strongly encouraged to help build capacity in this field within Australia. GRDC is seeking a 1:1 cash co-contribution ratio for this contract. Successful projects will address key knowledge gaps and contribute to the advancement of wheat breeding technologies.
Closing date and timeThursday 12 December 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateThursday 05 September 2024Last updatedFriday 06 September 2024 Tender status: Open
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Reference number: PROC-9177110 RFP
Request for Proposal: Innovations for soil, nutrient, and water productivity
GRDC is calling for innovative RD&E proposals in soils, nutrient, and water productivity spanning two of the Focus Areas (Optimise crop nutrition and improve soils and Step-changes in soil and water productivity) identified in GRDC’s Research, Development & Extension Plan 2023-28 (https://rdeplan.grdc.com.au/our-strategy ). GRDC welcomes all innovative proposals that fall within the Focus Area scopes and offer step-change improvements over current industry practice.
Closing date and timeFriday 18 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateThursday 05 September 2024Last updatedTuesday 15 October 2024 Tender status: Closed
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Reference number: EOI
Sponsorship - Events (round four 2024)
We are passionate about the Australian grains industry and value the opportunities events provide to engage with growers, researchers and other stakeholders, promote innovative and impactful RD&E, and develop industry capacity.
Closing date and timeThursday 31 October 2024, at 05:00 PM ACT local timeRelease dateThursday 01 August 2024Last updatedThursday 01 August 2024 Tender status: Open
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