Final reports

Organisation: AgCommunicators
Project start date: 15 Apr 2015
Project end date: 30 Jun 2016

'More than Gumboots and Tractors' was a professional development event for secondary school career advisers that provided an insight into careers and opportunities in the Australian grains industry. The day featured presentations portraying the grains industry, on-farm innovation, research and industry careers plus university and training entry prerequisites, pathways and scholarships.…

Organisation: CSIRO
Project start date: 27 Mar 2015
Project end date: 31 Dec 2015

Climate change predictions suggest that the scale and rate of change will alter agricultural production in many parts of Australia, particularly the low rainfall agro-ecological zones (LRZ) where projected changes of warmer temperatures, shifting and more variable rainfall patterns are likely to occur. For this reason GRDC supported: 1. The review of knowledge products used to manage seasonal…

Organisation: Synergy Consulting
Project start date: 1 Apr 2015
Project end date: 31 Mar 2016

Eastern areas of the western Australian grainbelt are receiving significant 'out of growing' season rainfall, providing growers with early sowing opportunities in approx. 50% of years (source: Bureau of Meteorology (BoM)) This project attempted to validate grower practice, especially in relation to wheat in regard to April sowing. This project aimed to look at three times of sowing (TOS) by four…

Organisation: University of Queensland
Project start date: 1 Apr 2015
Project end date: 31 Mar 2016

This project: 1. Reviewed literature outlining the technical understanding of soil nitrogen (N) and sulphur (S) supply processes and environmental losses. 2. Surveyed more than 300 advisers and agribusinesses nationally to determine how N fertiliser recommendations are made and the assumptions underlying them. 3. Documented the key Decision Support Systems (DSS) and their assumptions used to help …

Organisation: Ag Grow Agronomy and Research
Project start date: 1 Mar 2015
Project end date: 1 Apr 2016

Sandy soils and sandy rises attribute up to 30% of the cropping soils west of Griffith, New South Wales (NSW). This amounts to hundreds of thousands of hectares of cropping area in this region. Similar sands are also common on many mallee type soils found in southern NSW, Victoria (VIC) and South Australia (SA). Over the past 10 or so years, it has been apparent that these sandy soil types are…

Organisation: SARDI
Project start date: 1 Mar 2015
Project end date: 31 Dec 2015

Australian growers are aware of the need to match supply of nitrogen (N) to water availability. This involves water-N interactions that are the focus of this project. This study had two chapters. Chapter 1 reviewed the scientific and unpublished literature to provide physiological, agronomic, economic, breeding and modelling perspectives on the interactions between water and N. Chapter 2 used…

Organisation: The University of Adelaide
Project start date: 1 Mar 2015
Project end date: 31 Dec 2015

Ninety wheat and two canola studies were identified that report on nitrogen (N) x phosphorus (P) interactions in field sites from across Australia. Most data came from unpublished literature. To obtain maximum yield gains with fertilisation, both N and P need to be at adequate levels. The impact of low N on responses to P application appears to be of more significance compared to P deficiency on…