NVT Crop Sowing Guides
The National Variety Trials (NVT) Crop Sowing Guides summarise information on current commercially available varieties of grain crops grown in Australia. Sources of additional information are listed in each state edition and chapter.
Updated every year with new results from the NVT program, the guides aim to help growers answer the question: ‘Am I growing the best variety for my situation?’.
Latest NVT Crop Sowing Guides
Victorian and Tasmanian Crop Sowing Guide
The 2025 Victorian and Tasmanian Crop Sowing Guide outlines information on current varieties of the major winter crops grown in Victoria and Tasmania.
South Australian Crop Sowing Guide
The 2025 South Australian Crop Sowing Guide lists and describes varieties of the major winter crops suitable to grow in South Australia in the upcoming season.
Queensland Winter Crop Sowing Guide
The 2025 Queensland Winter Crop Sowing Guide contains the latest information for wheat, barley and chickpea varieties.
Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide
The 2025 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide contains the latest information on current varieties of the major winter crops grown.
New South Wales Crop Sowing Guide
The 2024 New South Wales Crop Sowing Guide contains the latest information on current varieties of the major winter crops grown.
National Variety Trials (NVT)
Most of the information presented is sourced from the NVT program. NVT provides independent information on varieties for growers. The aim of NVT is to document a ranking of commercially available varieties in terms of grain yield, disease resistance, and grain quality information relevant to delivery standards.
Conducted to a set of predetermined protocols, NVTs are sown and managed as close as possible to local best practice such as sowing time, fertiliser application, weed management and pest and disease control, including fungicide application. NVTs are not designed to grow varieties to their maximum yield potential.
NVT Online provides access to independent results on the performance of recently released grain and field crop varieties. It is a national program of comparative crop variety testing with standardised trial management, data generation, collection and dissemination.
This is managed through an internet accessed database that ensures a common approach and uniformity across the system.